Thanks Maggie for letting us know, he will be missed.

Louis
----- Original Message -----
From: Maggie White <maggie3661@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:09 pm
Subject: [Police] The Wild Thing is gone. RIP Ian
To: "police@mailman.xmission.com" <police@mailman.xmission.com>

> 'Wild Thing' author Copeland dies of cancer
> By Maggie Large
> TELEGRAPH STAFF WRITER
>
> Ian Copeland, founder of Frontier Booking International and
> brother to Police drummer Stewart Copeland, died Tuesday night in
> Los Angeles.
> Copeland, 57, had melanoma.
> Copeland came to Macon in the 1970s from London to work for
> Paragon Agency, the booking agency affiliated with Capricorn
> Records. He later married Connie Walden, now Connie Roberts of
> Jones County. They had two children, Chandra, 31 and Barbara, 26,
> and divorced after 12 years of marriage, Roberts said. His agency
> represented new-wave and alternative acts like Joan Jett, R.E.M.,
> Squeeze, The Police, The Go-Gos and many others.
> In 1995 Copeland wrote his autobiography, "Wild Thing," which
> detailed his life from his childhood in Damascus to his Macon days
> working at Paragon and later for himself all over the world. In
> recent years he owned the Backstage Caf˘® in Beverly Hills.
> Funeral arrangements are pending.
>
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