STEWART COPELAND

by **luddite lady** on 12 Oct 2009 02:35

The stooopid News of the World has taken a very few choice bits of Stewart's book and strung them together out of context to make Stewart look like a maniac on the verge of killing Sting during the reunion tour. The sub-headline (or whatever you call those things) shouts out "How feuding Police stars wrecked band's come-back". If the third most successful tour of all time is a wreck, I'll take a wreck anyday.
This is the type of thing I feared would happen if the advanced drafts had been released to unscrupulous hands. Now that the book is for sale, it's not such a big deal. You can just tell people to read the book and let it speak for itself. A few other news sources have picked up this story, condensing it to make it even more sensationally inaccurate.
Don't open this link if you haven't read the book and don't want to be "spoiled". Don't open this link either unless you want to enjoy a rush of indignant outrage.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz ... -book.html

by **Kim** on 12 Oct 2009 03:00

Ugh. I saw this in my Google alerts. Ridiculous. Don't read the comments either. :-(

by **TheEqualizer** on 12 Oct 2009 05:14

by **smax** on 12 Oct 2009 11:42

"Despite buying Sting a tuba for his birthday, they were still bickering on stage in Italy later that year."

i love the use of the word "despite"... like giving someone a tuba makes everything ok or is a long accepted sign of reconciliation and love...

by **dafttart** on 12 Oct 2009 11:46

smax wrote:"Despite buying Sting a tuba for his birthday, they were still bickering on stage in Italy later that year."

i love the use of the word "despite"... like giving someone a tuba makes everything ok or is a long accepted sign of reconciliation and love...

Smax, you mean you DON'T find yourself buying tubas left right and centre to make up for the odd cross word to a friend? Sheesh man, what planet are you on?!

by **Secret Journey** on 12 Oct 2009 13:04

Yeah the news of the world is your typical british tabloid toilet paper. Nothing new for them to print something like this.

by **policerule** on 12 Oct 2009 14:10

Yeah, I saw one with the "toad" comment as the headline this morning too.... DELETE. Move on. :roll:

by **luddite lady** on 13 Oct 2009 03:10

I love the comment to the article that was left by one klark kent. It sounds like it might be THE klark kent.

by **policerule** on 13 Oct 2009 12:31

This is my favorite comment:

"¡yeah-get rid of im Sting, theres millions of drummers out there!"

by **njperry** on 13 Oct 2009 12:56

The take of the review is expected but will disappoint readers who use this to decide to buy the book. The actual book has remarkably little about the conflict between Stewart and Sting, and many readers (even those that didn't see this review) will expect more on THE CONFLICT than the tome gives.

by **Susan** on 13 Oct 2009 14:17

Ahem, this morning on 101.9 RXP Stewart assured Matt Pinfield that there is "a lot of conflict" in the book. So the conflict thing is being promoted by the author, why should we be surprised when the press picks up on it?

by **Charliearnoid** on 15 Oct 2009 08:22

Where's my fuckin tuba?

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