![]() ![]() In Hull, he met Kemp, who was then playing in local bands and managing the music instrument section of a department store. ![]() Moving back north, he quit Bolton for Hull, and as his reputation grew around the folk scene he played at the celebrated Les Cousins club in Soho and moved on to university and college shows. Playing around the Cornish folk circuit he met Wizz Jones and Ralph McTell, who taught him to play finger-picking guitar. He was offered a paid residency, and never returned to lecturing. He did not have the entrance fee for the Count House folk club in Botallack, so he offered to play some decidedly non-folkie tunes – including Thelonious Monk’s Round Midnight and Booker T’s Green Onions. In the summer of 1966, while on holiday from lecturing at Bolton Art College, he was in Cornwall, then something of a folkie (and hippie) mecca. Moore appeared on the 2012 tribute album Oh Michael, Look What You’ve Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman, along with Lucinda Williams and Hiss Golden Messenger, and British musicians including Kemp and Maddy Prior.Ĭhapman hated to be called a folk singer, but he started his career on the folk circuit, at a time when many of the clubs encouraged a wildly eclectic range of performers. He was prolific, recording 58 albums, and although his popularity waned in the 80s and 90s, he built up a new, younger following from the late 90s on, particularly in the US, where his supporters included Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Praised by the DJ John Peel as “one of the most interesting and inventive guitarists around”, he was best known for the album Fully Qualified Survivor (1970), on which he was joined by Mick Ronson, who would go on to work with David Bowie, and Rick Kemp, who became a member of Steeleye Span. Michael Chapman, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was a singer-songwriter and guitarist who became a cult hero in the late 1960s and early 70s thanks to his highly original fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles, and thoughtful, often bleak lyrics. ![]()
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