Amy's New York Notebook

Sunday, April 27, 2003
 

It's Always the Drummer, Isn't It?
From today's Boston Globe's Ideas section:

''THE PRESIDENT LOOKS in the mirror and speaks/His shirts are clean but his country reeks/Unpaid bills/Afghanistan hills.'' These pointedly political lyrics to ''Bombs Away,'' a song on The Police's 1980 album ''Zenyatta Mondatta,'' were penned by the New Wave band's drummer Stewart Copeland, who knew exactly what he was talking about. Born in 1952 and raised in the Middle East, Stewart is the son of Miles Copeland, a notorious American CIA agent. According to a report on the Saddam Hussein-CIA connection issued earlier this month by United Press International, in the early 1960s Miles Copeland was frequently in contact with the future Iraqi president, who'd been smuggled into Cairo with CIA assistance after his failed assassination attempt on Iraq's prime minister. This raises a question: Do any of Copeland's Police lyrics predict the rise and fall of Saddam?






Weblog Commenting by HaloScan.com
Listed on Blogwise
Powered by Blogger Pro™


Subscribe with Bloglines





RSS feed


. . .