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Ian Copeland
Booker + Second + Archeologist
Male
Born
Apr 25, 1949
Hometown
Damascus
Died
May 23, 2006
Ian Adie Copeland was a pioneering American music promoter and booking agent who helped launch the New Wave movement in the United States. Copeland was born in Damascus, Syria, the second of four children born to CIA officer Miles Copeland, Jr. and his… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1949
Birth
Born in 1949.
TEENAGE
1967
18 Years Old
After a wayward youth growing up in the Middle East, where he was part of a gang involved in petty crime, Copeland enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War.
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TWENTIES
1977
28 Years Old
In 1977, he moved to Macon, Georgia to work for the Paragon Agency booking tours for rock groups.
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THIRTIES
1979
30 Years Old
In 1979, Copeland founded Frontier Booking International (FBI) in New York, a talent agency that represented many of the premier New Wave acts of the 1980s, including the B-52's, The Cure, The Police, Simple Minds, The English Beat, and The Go-Go's.
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1985
36 Years Old
Along with his brothers, Stewart and Miles, Ian was honoree and recipient of the Humanitarian Award from the AMC Cancer Research Center in 1985.
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FORTIES
1995
46 Years Old
Copeland published an autobiography, Wild Thing, in 1995.
1997
48 Years Old
In 1997 he opened the Backstage Cafe bar and restaurant in Beverly Hills, which he owned and operated until his death from melanoma at age 57.
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FIFTIES
2006
57 Years Old
Died in 2006.
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