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1570011 | Play | Don't Stop by the Creek, Son | 00:00 Tools | |
1570013 | Play | Claim Jumper | 00:00 Tools | |
1570014 | Play | Copeland Special | 00:00 Tools | |
1570012 | Play | Blues Ain't Nothin' | 00:00 Tools | |
1570024 | Play | Texas Party | 00:00 Tools | |
1570016 | Play | Same Thing | 00:00 Tools | |
1570015 | Play | Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
1570023 | Play | Houston | 00:00 Tools | |
1570017 | Play | Down On Bending Knees | 00:00 Tools | |
1570032 | Play | Johnny Gone | 00:00 Tools | |
1570031 | Play | I Was Born All Over | 00:00 Tools | |
1570021 | Play | Down on Bended Knee | 00:00 Tools | |
1570038 | Play | Rock Me Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
1570034 | Play | Jambalaya (On The Bayou) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570019 | Play | Honky Tonkin' | 00:00 Tools | |
1570018 | Play | Down On Bended Knees | 02:53 Tools | |
1570020 | Play | Tumblin' Dice | 00:00 Tools | |
1570036 | Play | Sufferin' City | 00:00 Tools | |
1570027 | Play | When the Rain Starts Fallin' | 00:00 Tools | |
1570096 | Play | Nobody But You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570028 | Play | Every Dog's Got His Day | 00:00 Tools | |
1570030 | Play | Everybody Wants a Piece of Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570052 | Play | Rolling With The Punches | 00:00 Tools | |
1570029 | Play | Catch Up With The Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570035 | Play | Bozalimalamu | 00:00 Tools | |
1570041 | Play | Cut Off My Right Arm | 00:00 Tools | |
1570100 | Play | Big Time | 00:00 Tools | |
1570037 | Play | Just One More Time | 00:00 Tools | |
1570025 | Play | Mama Told Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570051 | Play | Devil's Hand | 00:00 Tools | |
1570042 | Play | Rain | 00:00 Tools | |
1570040 | Play | Ghetto Child | 00:00 Tools | |
1570046 | Play | I De Go Now | 00:00 Tools | |
1570055 | Play | Kasavubu | 00:00 Tools | |
1570058 | Play | It's My Own Tears | 00:00 Tools | |
1570044 | Play | I Wish I Was Single | 00:00 Tools | |
1570095 | Play | There's A Blessing | 00:00 Tools | |
1570078 | Play | Cold, Cold Winter | 00:00 Tools | |
1570048 | Play | Greater Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570033 | Play | Flyin' High (Yesterday) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570059 | Play | Old Man Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570043 | Play | Please Let Me Know | 00:00 Tools | |
1570045 | Play | Let Me Cry | 00:00 Tools | |
1570060 | Play | Daily Bread | 00:00 Tools | |
47410951 | Play | It's My Own Tears That's Being | 00:00 Tools | |
1570093 | Play | I'm Creepin' | 00:00 Tools | |
1570065 | Play | Making A Fool Of Myself | 00:00 Tools | |
1570026 | Play | Sufferin' City - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
1570072 | Play | No Puppy Love | 00:00 Tools | |
1570047 | Play | Heebie Jeebies | 00:00 Tools | |
1570069 | Play | Working Man's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570085 | Play | Love Utopia | 00:00 Tools | |
1570077 | Play | Abidjan | 00:00 Tools | |
1570088 | Play | Bye, Bye Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
1570074 | Play | Life's Rainbow (Nature Song) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570062 | Play | I can tell | 00:00 Tools | |
1570071 | Play | Coming To See About You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570053 | Play | Wizard Of Art | 00:00 Tools | |
1570084 | Play | Natural Born Believer | 00:00 Tools | |
1570050 | Play | Dedicated To The Greatest | 00:00 Tools | |
1570079 | Play | Another Man's Wife | 00:00 Tools | |
1570056 | Play | May The Best Man Win | 00:00 Tools | |
1570134 | Play | I Got A Love | 00:00 Tools | |
1570083 | Play | Soul Power | 00:00 Tools | |
1570066 | Play | Hear What I Said | 00:00 Tools | |
1570130 | Play | Baby Please Don't Go | 00:00 Tools | |
1570076 | Play | Ain't Nobody's Business | 00:00 Tools | |
1570092 | Play | Excuses | 00:00 Tools | |
1570099 | Play | Hold On To What You Got | 00:00 Tools | |
1570126 | Play | The Jungle | 00:00 Tools | |
1570120 | Play | The Grammy Song | 00:00 Tools | |
1570193 | Play | Monkey On My Back | 00:00 Tools | |
1570054 | Play | Promised Myself | 00:00 Tools | |
1570061 | Play | Late Hours | 00:00 Tools | |
1570087 | Play | Pedal To The Metal | 00:00 Tools | |
1570089 | Play | I Need You Now | 00:00 Tools | |
1570102 | Play | Cold Outside | 00:00 Tools | |
1570164 | Play | Ready, Willing, And Able | 00:00 Tools | |
1570097 | Play | Provin' Time | 00:00 Tools | |
1570142 | Play | We Love Walking On The Wild Side | 00:00 Tools | |
1570205 | Play | Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) [Live][#] | 00:00 Tools | |
1570075 | Play | San Antone | 00:00 Tools | |
1570022 | Play | Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town) - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
1570081 | Play | Wella Wella Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
1570131 | Play | I Was Born To Love You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570070 | Play | Love Song | 00:00 Tools | |
1570064 | Play | Hooked, Hog-Tied & Collared | 00:00 Tools | |
1570090 | Play | Ngote | 00:00 Tools | |
1570039 | Play | Slow Walk You Down | 00:00 Tools | |
47410952 | Play | I Wasm Born to Love You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570119 | Play | Working Man Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570091 | Play | Dear Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
1570073 | Play | Thigpen (Cornball) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570049 | Play | T-Bone Shuffle | 00:00 Tools | |
1570129 | Play | Wake Up Little Susie | 00:00 Tools | |
1570098 | Play | Circumstances | 00:00 Tools | |
1570086 | Play | Drinking New York City Dry | 00:00 Tools | |
1570168 | Play | Tumblin' Dice (feat. The Yahoos, Derek Trucks, & Shemekia Copeland) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570094 | Play | Around The World | 00:00 Tools | |
1570160 | Play | Ain't Nothin' But A Party | 00:00 Tools | |
1570080 | Play | It's Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570240 | Play | Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place in Town) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570196 | Play | It's My Own Tears That's Bein' Wasted | 00:00 Tools | |
1570113 | Play | Midnight Fantasy | 00:00 Tools | |
1570159 | Play | Blues Ain't Nothing | 00:00 Tools | |
1570107 | Play | You Must Believe In Yourself | 00:00 Tools | |
1570101 | Play | Your Game Is Working | 00:00 Tools | |
1570108 | Play | Gonna Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
1570143 | Play | Ready, Willing and Able | 00:00 Tools | |
1570140 | Play | Jungle Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
1570194 | Play | Learned My Lessons | 00:00 Tools | |
1570128 | Play | I'll Be Around | 00:00 Tools | |
1570125 | Play | St. Louis Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570115 | Play | North Carolina | 00:00 Tools | |
1570148 | Play | Learned My Lesson | 00:00 Tools | |
1570124 | Play | I've Gotta Go Home | 00:00 Tools | |
1570068 | Play | The Hip Hop | 00:00 Tools | |
1570176 | Play | You've Got Me Singing a Love Song | 00:00 Tools | |
1570104 | Play | Stealing | 00:00 Tools | |
1570082 | Play | Four Dried Beans | 00:00 Tools | |
1570169 | Play | I Got to Go Home | 00:00 Tools | |
1570189 | Play | Look on Yonder Wall | 00:00 Tools | |
1570150 | Play | Third Party | 00:00 Tools | |
1570105 | Play | Jessanne | 00:00 Tools | |
1570123 | Play | Workin' Man's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570174 | Play | Love Her With a Feeling | 00:00 Tools | |
1570239 | Play | If Love Is Your Friend (Let Love Come In) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570137 | Play | Johnny Ace Medley | 00:00 Tools | |
1570110 | Play | House Of So Many Tears | 00:00 Tools | |
1570170 | Play | Hurt Hurt Hurt | 00:00 Tools | |
1570109 | Play | Somethin' You Got | 00:00 Tools | |
1570103 | Play | Funny Feeling | 00:00 Tools | |
1570212 | Play | Lion's Den | 00:00 Tools | |
1570144 | Play | Further On Up The Road | 00:00 Tools | |
1570163 | Play | Conakry | 00:00 Tools | |
1570236 | Play | That's All Right | 00:00 Tools | |
1570154 | Play | Proving Time | 00:00 Tools | |
1570201 | Play | It Must Be Love | 00:00 Tools | |
1570121 | Play | Don't Tell Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570112 | Play | Up Your Sleeve | 00:00 Tools | |
1570145 | Play | Make My Home Where I Hang My H | 00:00 Tools | |
1570106 | Play | You're Gonna Reap Just What You Sow | 00:00 Tools | |
1570139 | Play | The Invitation | 00:00 Tools | |
1570190 | Play | Little Coquette | 00:00 Tools | |
1570218 | Play | Pie In The Sky | 00:00 Tools | |
1570175 | Play | Beat The Boom Boom Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
1570157 | Play | Traveling Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570213 | Play | Night Time Parts 1 & 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
1570155 | Play | All These Things | 00:00 Tools | |
1570204 | Play | Further Up the Road | 00:00 Tools | |
1570247 | Play | Flamin' Mamie | 00:00 Tools | |
1570165 | Play | Remus | 00:00 Tools | |
1570111 | Play | (You've Got Me) Singing A Love Song | 00:00 Tools | |
1570200 | Play | Four Dried Beans (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570153 | Play | Stealing (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570248 | Play | Hurt Hurt Hurt (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570211 | Play | Rock And Roll Lily | 00:00 Tools | |
1570118 | Play | Bring Your Fine Self Home | 00:00 Tools | |
1570057 | Play | Sufferin' City (Version 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570161 | Play | Tribute to Sam Cooke | 00:00 Tools | |
1570146 | Play | Ain't Nobody's Business (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570173 | Play | Rock and Roll Lilly | 00:00 Tools | |
1570132 | Play | Night Time (Parts 1, 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570116 | Play | Rock 'n' Roll Lilly | 00:00 Tools | |
1570158 | Play | Sufferin' City (Single Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570255 | Play | Don't Stop by the Creek, Son (feat. Stevie Ray Vaughan) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570122 | Play | Something's Up Your Sleeve | 00:00 Tools | |
1570192 | Play | Rock 'n' Roll Lily | 00:00 Tools | |
47410953 | Play | Make My Home Where I Hang My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
1570141 | Play | Traveling Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570257 | Play | Tribute To Sam Cooke (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570202 | Play | Don't Stop By The Creek, Son (With Johnny Copeland) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570114 | Play | I'm Going To Make My Home Where I Lay My Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
47410957 | Play | Black Cat Bone | 00:00 Tools | |
1570136 | Play | Johnny Copeland - Jambalaya (O | 00:00 Tools | |
47410974 | Play | The Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
1570232 | Play | Hooked, Hogtied & Collared | 00:00 Tools | |
47410954 | Play | Pin Your Wings | 00:00 Tools | |
1570181 | Play | Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) [#][Live] | 00:00 Tools | |
1570152 | Play | Tribute To Same Cooke | 00:00 Tools | |
1570221 | Play | You Got Me Singing a Love Song | 00:00 Tools | |
1570151 | Play | Night Time Is The Right Time (Part 1 & 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570127 | Play | Mother Nature | 00:00 Tools | |
47410955 | Play | Jambalaya | 00:00 Tools | |
47410956 | Play | WE LOVE WALKING ON THE WILD SI | 00:00 Tools | |
1570209 | Play | Johnny Ace Medley (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570117 | Play | Love Attack | 00:00 Tools | |
1570177 | Play | Tribute To Same Cooke (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
47410965 | Play | The Moon Is Full | 00:00 Tools | |
1570184 | Play | Johnny Ace Medley (Alternate Take) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570254 | Play | Blackjack | 00:00 Tools | |
1570231 | Play | Excuses, Excuses | 00:00 Tools | |
47410959 | Play | Flyin' High | 00:00 Tools | |
1570230 | Play | That's All Right Mama | 00:00 Tools | |
1570208 | Play | sufferin city | 00:00 Tools | |
47410958 | Play | Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) [Live] | 00:00 Tools | |
47410966 | Play | Albert's Alley | 00:00 Tools | |
1570244 | Play | Rock'n'Roll Lilly | 00:00 Tools | |
1570133 | Play | Wake Up, Little Susie | 00:00 Tools | |
1570203 | Play | Life's Rainbow | 00:00 Tools | |
47410964 | Play | She's into Something | 00:00 Tools | |
47410975 | Play | Mama Told Me Not to Come | 00:00 Tools | |
47410970 | Play | Done Got Over It | 00:00 Tools | |
47410967 | Play | Rock'n' Roll Lilly | 00:00 Tools | |
1570251 | Play | Cut Off My Right Arm [Audio] | 00:00 Tools | |
1570224 | Play | Wella, Wella Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
88923209 | Play | I Waited Too Long | 00:00 Tools | |
47410960 | Play | Tumblin' Dice - Johnny Copeland | 00:00 Tools | |
86824468 | Play | Copeland Late Hours | 00:00 Tools | |
47410961 | Play | The Blues Ain't Nothin' | 00:00 Tools | |
47410962 | Play | Johnny's Gone | 00:00 Tools | |
1570256 | Play | Travelling Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570182 | Play | Night Time Parts 1, 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
47410969 | Play | Something to Remember You By | 00:00 Tools | |
47410963 | Play | Every dog got his day | 00:00 Tools | |
1570210 | Play | Night Time Is The Right Time, Pts. 1 & 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
1570197 | Play | Travelling Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570214 | Play | I Wish I Was Ingle | 00:00 Tools | |
1570191 | Play | Why Don't You Make Up Your Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
1570227 | Play | Night Time Is The Right Time | 00:00 Tools | |
47410968 | Play | Night Time (Parts 1 & 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
47410976 | Play | The Night Time Is The Right Time | 00:00 Tools | |
1570167 | Play | Something You Got | 00:00 Tools | |
1570162 | Play | If You're Looking For A Fool | 00:00 Tools | |
47410982 | Play | Hurt Hurt Hurt (alt.) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570217 | Play | Hooked, Hogtied and Collared | 00:00 Tools | |
1570156 | Play | Danger Zone | 00:00 Tools | |
47410987 | Play | That's Alright Mama | 00:00 Tools | |
1570149 | Play | I'm Going to Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
86824471 | Play | Getto Child | 00:00 Tools | |
47410971 | Play | Something to Remember You By [#] | 00:00 Tools | |
86824469 | Play | Johnny Ace Medley (alt.) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570171 | Play | Blowing In The Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
1570242 | Play | Your Game Is Working On Me | 00:00 Tools | |
47410972 | Play | Hooked, Hog-tied and collared | 00:00 Tools | |
47410973 | Play | Claim Jumper (From album: Texas Twister) | 00:00 Tools | |
86824470 | Play | Four Dried Beans (alt.) | 00:00 Tools | |
47410981 | Play | That s All Right | 00:00 Tools | |
47410989 | Play | Working Man's Blues (Aca Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
47410983 | Play | I Was Bron To Love You | 00:00 Tools | |
86824479 | Play | Night Time Is Right Time (part 1+2) | 00:00 Tools | |
47410977 | Play | Workingman's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86824474 | Play | I Feel Like I Wanna Cry | 00:00 Tools | |
1570253 | Play | Willie Dixon; Leonard Gaston / Jungle Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
47410978 | Play | I"m Gonna Make My Home Where I Lay My Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
47410979 | Play | Your Game Is Working On Me [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
47410980 | Play | Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 00:00 Tools | |
1570245 | Play | Don't Stop By The Creek, Son (with Stevie Ray Vaughan) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570198 | Play | Love Prayer | 00:00 Tools | |
1570147 | Play | Sufferin' City (Version 2, Solo) | 00:00 Tools | |
47410984 | Play | Don't Stop by the Creek | 00:00 Tools | |
88923210 | Play | Hurt, Hurt, Hurt | 00:00 Tools | |
47410985 | Play | Let me come home | 00:00 Tools | |
86824472 | Play | flying high | 00:00 Tools | |
47410986 | Play | What is a man without his pride | 00:00 Tools | |
47410988 | Play | Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Pl | 00:00 Tools | |
47410991 | Play | Nobody's Business | 00:00 Tools | |
86824477 | Play | Djeli, Djeli Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86824480 | Play | Every Dog´s Got His Day | 00:00 Tools | |
86824475 | Play | Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat - Essential Recordings, Down On Bended Knee | 00:00 Tools | |
86824473 | Play | Further On Up The Road - Live in Australia | 00:00 Tools | |
86824476 | Play | You're Gonna Reap What You Sow | 00:00 Tools | |
47410990 | Play | Sufferin' City [Single Version] | 00:00 Tools | |
88923211 | Play | You Got Me Singing A Love Song (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
88923212 | Play | That's Alright Mama (Demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
86824478 | Play | I Need You Know | 00:00 Tools | |
86824481 | Play | Atmosphere Strutt | 00:00 Tools | |
1570172 | Play | Johnny Ace Medley #1: Anymore/Pledging My Love/Cross My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
47410992 | Play | Baby Please Don't Go [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
47410993 | Play | Year Round Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47410994 | Play | Where's My Head | 00:00 Tools |
Considering the amount of time he spent steadily rolling from gig to gig, Johnny "Clyde" Copeland's rise to prominence in the blues world in the early '90s wasn't all that surprising. A contract with the PolyGram/Verve label put his '90s recordings into the hands of thousands of blues lovers around the world. It's not that Copeland's talent changed all that much since he recorded for Rounder Records in the 1980s; it's just that major companies began to see the potential of great, hardworking blues musicians like Copeland. Unfortunately, Copeland was forced to slow down in 1995-96 by heart-related complications, yet he continued to perform shows until his death in July of 1997. Johnny Copeland was born March 27, 1937, in Haynesville, LA, about 15 miles south of Magnolia, AR (formerly Texarkana, a hotbed of blues activity in the 1920s and '30s). The son of sharecroppers, his father died when he was very young, but Copeland was given his father's guitar. His first gig was with his friend Joe "Guitar" Hughes. Soon after, Hughes "took sick" for a week and the young Copeland discovered he could be a front man and deliver vocals as well as anyone else around Houston at that time. His music, by his own reasoning, fell somewhere between the funky R&B of New Orleans and the swing and jump blues of Kansas City. After his family (sans his father) moved to Houston, Copeland was exposed, as a teen, to musicians from both cities. While he was becoming interested in music, he also pursued boxing, mostly as an avocation, and it is from his days as a boxer that he got his nickname "Clyde." Copeland and Hughes fell under the spell of T-Bone Walker, whom Copeland first saw perform when he was 13 years old. As a teenager he played at locales such as Shady's Playhouse — Houston's leading blues club, host to most of the city's best bluesmen during the 1950s — and the Eldorado Ballroom. Copeland and Hughes subsequently formed The Dukes of Rhythm, which became the house band at the Shady's Playhouse. After that, he spent time playing on tour with Albert Collins (himself a fellow T-Bone Walker devotee) during the 1950s, and also played on stage with Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Mama Thornton, and Freddie King. He began recording in 1958 with "Rock 'n' Roll Lily" for Mercury, and moved between various labels during the 1960s, including All Boy and Golden Eagle in Houston, where he had regional successes with "Please Let Me Know" and "Down on Bending Knees," and later for Wand and Atlantic in New York. In 1965, he displayed a surprising prescience in terms of the pop market by cutting a version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" for Wand. After touring around the "Texas triangle" of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, he relocated to New York City in 1974, at the height of the disco boom. It seems moving to New York City was the best career move Copeland ever made, for he had easy access to clubs in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Boston, all of which still had a place for blues musicians like him. Meanwhile, back in Houston, the club scene was hurting, owing partly to the oil-related recession of the mid-'70s. Copeland took a day job at a Brew 'n' Burger restaurant in New York and played his blues at night, finding receptive audiences at clubs in Harlem and Greenwich Village. Copeland recorded seven albums for Rounder Records, beginning in 1981 and including Copeland Special, Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat, Texas Twister, Bringing It All Back Home, When the Rain Starts a Fallin', Ain't Nothing But a Party (live, nominated for a Grammy) and Boom Boom; he also won a Grammy award in 1986 for his efforts on an Alligator album, Showdown! with Robert Cray and the late Albert Collins. Although Copeland had a booming, shouting voice and was a powerful guitarist and live performer, what most people don't realize is just how clever a songwriter he was. His latter-day releases for the PolyGram/Verve/Gitanes label, including Flyin' High (1992) and Catch Up with the Blues, provide ample evidence of this on "Life's Rainbow (Nature Song)" (from the latter album) and "Circumstances" (from the former album). Because Copeland was only six months old when his parents split up and he only saw his father a few times before he passed away, Copeland never realized he had inherited a congenital heart defect from his father. He disovered this in the midst of another typically hectic tour in late 1994, when he had to go into the hospital in Colorado. After he was diagnosed with heart disease, he spent the next few years in and out of hospitals, undertaking a number of costly heart surgeries. Early in 1997, he was waiting for a heart transplant at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. As he was waiting, he was put on the L-VAD, a recent innovation for patients suffering from congenital heart defects. In 1995, Copeland appeared on CNN and ABC-TV's Good Morning America, wearing his L-VAD, offering the invention valuable publicity. Despite his health problems, Copeland continued to perform and his always spirited concerts did not diminished all that much. After living 20 months on the L-VAD — the longest anyone had lived on the device — he received a heart transplant on January 1, 1997 and for a few months, the heart worked fine and he continued to tour. However, the heart developed a defective valve, necessitating heart surgery in the summer. Copeland died of complications during heart surgery on July 3, 1997. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.