Michael Chapman (singer)

**Michael Chapman** (24 January 1941 – 10 September 2021) was an English folk singer-songwriter and guitar player. Chapman originally began playing guitar with jazz bands. He was born in Hunslet, Leeds, England. His career began in 1966.

Chapman died on 10 September 2021 at the age of 80.

## Discography

- _Rainmaker_ (1969) – Harvest
- _Fully Qualified Survivor_ (1970) – Harvest – UK No. 45
- _Window_ (1970) – Harvest
- _Wrecked Again_ (1971) – Harvest
- _Millstone Grit_ (1973) – Deram / Decca
- _Deal Gone Down_ (1974) – Deram / Decca
- _Pleasures of the Street_ (1975) – Nova
- _Savage Amusement_ (1976) – Deram / Decca
- _The Man Who Hated Mornings_ (1977) – Deram
- _Play Guitar The Easy Way_ (1978) – Criminal Records
- _Life on the Ceiling_ (1979) – Criminal Records
- _Looking For Eleven_ (1980) – Criminal Records
- _Almost Alone_ (1981) – Black Crow Records
- _Original Owners_ (1983) – Konnexion
- _Heartbeat_ (1987) – Coda
- _Still Making Rain_ (1991/3) – Self Release 1991 / Making Waves 1993
- _Navigation_ (1995) – Planet Records
- _Dreaming Out Loud_ (1997) – Demon Records
- _Michael Chapman Black And White_ (1998) – Rural Retreat Records
- _BBC Sessions 69–75_ (1998) Strange Fruit Records
- _The Twisted Road_ (1999) – Mystic UK
- _Growing Pains_ (2000) – Mooncrest Records
- _Growing Pains 2_ (2001) – Mooncrest Records
- _Americana_ (2001) – Apropos / reissued on Blueprint
- _Live And Unhinged_ (2001) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Kule 2 B Blue with Alamo Leal_ (2001) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Americana 2_ (2002)
- _Dogs Got More Sense_ (2004) – Secret Records
- _Journeyman Live DVD_ (2004) – Secret Records
- _27 06 05 Live in Brighton_ (2005) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Plaindealer_ (2005) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Lost_ (2005) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Words Fail Me_ (2007)
- _Vanity and Pride_ (2008) – self release – limited edition – Michael Chapman and Ursa
- _Sweet Powder_ (2008) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Time Past & Time Passing_ (2008) – Electric Ragtime
- _And Then There Were Three Live in Nottingham 1977_ (2010) – Market Square Records
- _Wrytree Drift_ (2010) – Rural Retreat Records
- _Trainsong:_ Guitar Compositions, 1967–2010 (2011) – Tompkins Square Records
- _Fully Qualified Survivor_ (reissue) (2011) – Light in the Attic Records
- _Rainmaker_ (reissue) (2012) – Light in the Attic Records
- _Wrecked Again_ (reissue) (2013) – Light in the Attic Records
- _Window_ (reissue) (2014) – Light in the Attic Records
- _The Resurrection and Revenge of The Clayton Peacock_ (2011) – Blastfirst Petite
- _Pachyderm_ (2012) – Blastfirst Petite
- _The Polar Bear_ (2014) – Blastfirst Petite
- _Live At Folk Cottage, Cornwall 1967_ (2014) – TreeHouse44
- _Fish_ (2015) – Tompkins Square Records
- _50_ (2017) – Paradise of Bachelors
- _EB=MC2_ (2017) (Ehud Banai & Michael Chapman) – Nana Disc
- _True North_ (2019) – Paradise of Bachelors
- _Plaindealer + Twisted Road_ (2020) Double album – Mooncrest
- _Michael Chapman Americana LP_ Vinyl (2020) Mooncrest
- _Michael Chapman - Sweet Powder & Wrytree Drift_ Double CD  (2020) Mooncrest
- _Michael Chapman - The Decca Years 1974-77_ - 8 Panel Digipack  (2021) Mooncrest

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Michael Chapman
- **image**: Michael Chapman by Zoran Velesinovic.jpg
- **caption**: Michael Chapman in 1980
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Michael Chapman
- **birth place**: Hunslet, Leeds, England
- **instrument**: Vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, piano, percussion
- **genre**: Folk music, Folk, jazz
- **occupation**: Musician, songwriter
- **years active**: 1966–2021
- **label**: Mooncrest Records  Secret Records Secret Records limited Harvest Records, Harvest, Deram Records, Deram, Criminal, Black Crow Records, Black Crow, Strange Fruit Records, Strange Fruit, Mooncrest Records, Mooncrest, Demon Music Group, Demon Records, Rural Retreat Records, Secret Records, Market Square Records, Blast First Petite, Tompkins Square Records, Tompkins Square