in 1999, he provided the voice of an additional American soldier in the animated musical comedy war film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999).
He also stayed with the project to create the musical scores for the remaining Insomniac sequels Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! (1999)
Copeland was commissioned by Universal Interactive and Insomniac Games in 1998 to make the musical score for the PlayStation game Spyro the Dragon .
After the Police disbanded, Copeland established a career composing soundtracks for films ( Airborne , Talk Radio , Wall Street , Riff Raff , Raining Stones , Surviving the Game , See No Evil, Hear No Evil , Highlander II: The Quickening , She’s Having a Baby , The First…
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In 1993 he composed the music for Channel 4 ‘s Horse Opera and director Bob Baldwin,
In 1989, Copeland formed Animal Logic with jazz bassist Stanley Clarke and singer-songwriter Deborah Holland . The trio had success with their first album and world tour but broke up as the members wanted to pursue other projects.
That year he also teamed with Adam Ant to record the title track and video for the Anthony Michael Hall film Out of Bounds .
The Police attempted a reunion in 1986, but the project fell apart.
Peter Gabriel employed Copeland to perform on his songs ” Red Rain ” and ” Big Time ” from his 1986 album So because of his “hi-hat mastery”.
The Rhythmatist record of 1985 was the result of a pilgrimage to Africa and its people, and it features local drums and percussion, with more drums, percussion, other musical instruments and occasional lead vocals added by Copeland. The album was the official soundtrack to the movie of the same name,…
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