The Police's Stewart Copeland opened up about the origin of the track in a interview with 'The Bob Lefsetz Podcast' Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

Stewart Copeland didn’t think much of “Roxanne” the first time he heard it, admitting he considered the tune a “throwaway song.” The Police drummer was recently a guest on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, ...

Roxanne Seeman with Joe Sample (left), founding member of The Crusaders. (Photos courtesy of Noa Noa Music) Life as a songwriter has taken Roxanne Seeman far from her childhood home in Great Neck.

Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich is a master of Twitter and walk-up songs. Yelich approached the plate during his first at-bat of Tuesday night's Brewers-Cardinals game as "Roxanne" by The Police ...

Arizona Zervas' streaming juggernaut "Roxanne" reaches the top slot on Billboard's Hot Rap Songs chart dated Dec. 7 with a 3-1 move. By Trevor Anderson Arizona Zervas’ streaming juggernaut “Roxanne” ...

The song's coronation comes as it leaps into the top 20 of the Hot 100. By Kevin Rutherford It took just three weeks for Arizona Zervas’ “Roxanne” to go from a debut to No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming ...

Stewart Copeland didn’t think much of “Roxanne” the first time he heard it, admitting he considered the tune a “throwaway song.” The Police drummer was recently a guest on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, ...