Miles Copeland III
American music executive and former managerWikipedia
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Sep 12, 2026
Paul CarrackGUEST
But, um, no, I mean, um, Jools had left the band.
Paul CarrackGUEST
He'd gone with this Miles Copeland, the manager-
Guy PrattHOST
Mm
Paul CarrackGUEST
...
Paul CarrackGUEST
Miles Copeland, who managed, uh, The Police-
Guy PrattHOST
The Police
Paul CarrackGUEST
... and these people.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
Well, that fucked everything up.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
And so he had to get his family out of dodge, which by that time was just me, because Miles had gone off to college in Birmingham, Lenny had gone off to Vassar, Ian had run away to Vietnam-
Adam CarollaHOST
Wow
Stewart CopelandGUEST
... leaving me, and I was shipped over to London, uh, this is about 1968 kind of thing.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
I never thought I'd actually do it for a living.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
Uh, you know, and when I was in college, I started a magazine.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
Uh, Miles, my brother Miles started a music empire, uh, and I roadied for bands, and I did everything in the business.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
Um, and then one day it just, it, the music part just kept calling me back.
Penelope SpheerisGUEST
You, you see, that band wasn't even supposed to be in the movie.
Penelope SpheerisGUEST
It was Miles Copeland was managing them and, um, said, "You gotta put them in the movie." I'm like, "No, it's only LA bands."
Michael MoynihanHOST
Weren't you supposed to do Guns N' Roses instead of them?
Penelope SpheerisGUEST
Well, no, I was supposed to do Guns N' Roses instead of Megadeth, but-
Masauko Chipembere Jr.GUEST
No big deal.
Masauko Chipembere Jr.GUEST
about a month later we get calls from every single person in the music industry in los angeles saying what is that song the bitter faces song we want that song and so uh within The next two or three months, I find myself in the office of Miles Copeland, who is the manager for Sting.
Masauko Chipembere Jr.GUEST
I find myself in the studio of James Guthrie, who was the producer of The Wall for Pink Floyd.
Masauko Chipembere Jr.GUEST
I mean, no, he was the engineer for The Wall for Pink Floyd.
Shane McEachernHOST
He was, um, an iconic producer.
Shane McEachernHOST
Uh, when we talked to Miles Copeland, um, He was very close to William, and he brought William on kind of as a stable producer for IRS Records.
Shane McEachernHOST
And then William went on to do the Strange Cargo stuff.
Shane McEachernHOST
And then people started realizing, like, man, this guy's got some killer production.
Paul Collins and Philip CollinsGUEST
as a new priesthood, and the intelligence community retained the psychological warfare methods systematized for them by those social scientists, and in the implementation of those methods, factions within the intelligence community have actually probably discovered an effective means of influencing and directing the UFO community into formulation of exotheological beliefs.
Paul Collins and Philip CollinsGUEST
For instance, former CIA organizer Miles Copeland was involved in an attempt to disseminate fictional UFO sightings for the purposes of dazzling and intoxicating the Chinese during the early 60s.
Paul Collins and Philip CollinsGUEST
And according to Miles Copeland, this exercise produced some very interesting unintended, according to him, so he says, corollaries.
Paul Collins and Philip CollinsGUEST
In an interview with Timothy Goode, Copeland said, quote, The project not desired results, as I remember, except that it somehow got picked up by a lot of religious nuts in Iowa and Nebraska or somewhere who took it seriously enough to add an extra chapter to their version of the New Testament, unquote.
Paul Collins and Philip CollinsGUEST
That such results were unintentional is...
David EastaughHOST
I did an interview with Doctor and the Medics, actually, and he turned out to be a nice chap.
David EastaughHOST
But I think he was being managed by Miles Copeland, who was managing the police.
David EastaughHOST
And he was one of those typical managers in the 80s.
David EastaughHOST
I think he embraced the Thatcher world quite a lot.
JamieHOST
[laughs] Yep.
AlanHOST
Uh, the tensions almost led to the recording sessions being canceled, until a meeting involving the band and group's manager, Miles Copeland, who was Stewart's brother, resulted in an agreement to continue.
AlanHOST
Uh, Hugh probably just made, like, the money sign with his fingers.
JamieHOST
Of course he did.
Joe BeauclairHOST
And how, like, there was a story about how You know, they went into the studio with Ken Scott and they made an album and they submitted it to IRS and IRS rejected it.
Joe BeauclairHOST
And Miles Copeland had some very, very interesting advice for them on how to improve the record.
Joe BeauclairHOST
And so they went, you know, back into another studio with some of Phil's friends from, like, high school.
Joe BeauclairHOST
And I think he said they recorded DIMM.
William OrbitGUEST
Very nice.
William OrbitGUEST
Keep us posted, but not quite right yet." And then one day, got a call from this guy that worked for Miles Copeland, who was flush because he managed The Police, who liked it and signed us.
Chris HawkinsHOST
And that was Torch Song.
William OrbitGUEST
It was.
William OrbitGUEST
Never underestimate the power of random.
Chris HawkinsHOST
So where were we?
William OrbitGUEST
We were talking about that Miles Copeland and Torch Song-
Chris HawkinsHOST
Yes
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