Miles Copeland III
Miles Axe Copeland III (born May 2, 1944 in London, England) is the founder of I.R.S. Records and former manager of his brother, Stewart's band, "The Police".
Copeland is the son of musician and CIA operative Miles Copeland Jr, who was born in Birmingham but lived in London and throughout the Middle East. He enrolled at Birmingham-Southern College in 1962 and graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1966, then went on to complete a master of arts in economics at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. When he returned to England he began his career as a concert promoter and manager with the band Wishbone Ash.
Copeland founded BTM (British Talent Management), a talent agency and record label, in 1974. The following summer he organized the ill-fated "Star-Trucking" tour to major European rock festivals. The agency closed in 1976 and Copeland helped in the founding of a spate of Punk/New Wave labels such as Illegal Records, Deptford Fun City Records, New Briston Records. He assumed the duties of manager for The Police in 1978 and, with backing from A&M Records, founded another new label, I.R.S. Records. That label released a long series of hits from The Buzzcocks, The English Beat, The Cramps, Fine Young Cannibals, Wall of Voodoo, Timbuk 3, R.E.M., The Alarm and The Go-Go's.
When The Police lead singer Sting began recording solo albums he retained Copeland as manager. More recently his agency, Copeland International Arts (CIA) has managed a wide variety of world music and dance artists.
Copeland and his wife, Argentine model Adriana Corajoria, have three children, Miles IV, Aeson and Axton.
References
- "Miles Copeland III" (July 13, 2014) Wikipedia - accessed September 26, 2014