What happens when you write a song for The Police, but Sting can't identify with the song and doesn't think he can do it justice? You go solo and record it yourself. Stewart Copeland did just that, playing all the instruments and singing. In order not to disrupt the career of The Police, which at the time was an emerging band, Copeland chose to record under the pseudonym "Klark Kent". Released as a single by A&M in 1978, "Don't Care" reached number 48 in the UK Singles Chart.

Keeping up the deception is much harder when you're asked to perform it on TV. When Klark Kent was invited to Top of the Pops to perform the song, Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers, Kim Turner, Florian Pilkington-Miksa, and Miles Copeland showed up wearing masks to disguise their identity. Copeland's voice couldn't be heard through the mask, which was also deemed as particularly scary by the show's producers, so he eventually had to drop it in favor of heavy make-up and shades. However, this made Copeland's identity quite clear. (Also, in the background, the bouncing and hopping motion of the base player is unmistakably Sting.)

Restoration notes: QTGMC + proprietary SRGAN.

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