Stewart Copeland

The former Police man travels around the UK telling more stories about that band and more.

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He's won a Grammy, been inducted to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, written books, made films, presented documentaries and composed music for ballet, opera and classical concerts. Now the former drummer with The Police heads out on the next part of his spoken-word tour.

This is the second leg of your Have I Said Too Much? tour, its first run having taken place last Autumn. How will this one differ?

Every night is different. I could talk for five hours instead of just a couple, so it's inevitable that no two shows will be alike. Regarding The Police alone there are twenty anecdotes that I could tell, so we have a lady MC, Lisa Thomson, to keep me on track because one question from the audience is all it takes to get me going for half an hour.

Is the tour called Have I Said Too Much? because you're a bit of a rentagob?

[Feigning indignation] How dare you? No, I'm kidding - you don't even need to rent me, I'm a freegob.

There's a book about you, also called Have I Said Too Much?, that you describe as “a biography of sorts”. What do you mean by that?

It's a biography with all sorts of insight that comes from its scurrilous author [Johnny Morgan], a guy who pretends to be an old friend of mine from within the clouds of hashish that enveloped him at the time. In that sense it's semi-authorised.

How did it feel to read your life story through the eyes of another?

I've been doing that for the last fifty years.