Stewart Copeland - Police Deranged for OrchestraVinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Stewart Copeland's Police Deranged for Orchestra is a high energy orchestral celebration of legendary rock star and composer Stewart Copeland and his career as the founder of one rock's most beloved bands, The Police. With more than 60 million records sold worldwide, six Grammy awards, and induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Police founded when Copeland recruited Andy Summers and Sting in 1977 have been a

The 75 year-old Jackson plays with the depth of someone who has lived the blues

becoming one of the first orchestras who racked up a long string of hits in what was called the "sweet" style of orchestral and dance band music which appealed to the broad spectrum of middle America during the inter-war years and through the '40s into the early '50s in what is sometimes called the golden age of popular music

but one that understands what can be gained when artistic maturity meets experimentation

Akira Ifukube (1914-2006) was one of the greatest composers on the contemporary music scene in his native country

He summons the reedy

Dave Gregory's arrival on guitar marked a shift in style with the group now configured as a twin guitar/bass/drums line-up

Paul Samwell-Smith

and secondly

in which fashionable composers such as Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstaple tried their hand at the motet genre

Fuel For Your Soul

He was controversially fired from Godfrey's shows in 1953

sweeping opener "Sebastian's Day Off" took it's tempo from a day Miller spent in the park with his son