Mike Chapman
# Mike Chapman

Michael Donald Chapman (Nambour, Australia, 13 de abril de 1947) es un productor discográfico australiano y un compositor de gran relevancia en la industria de la música pop británica, en la década de 1970.

Junto con su socio comercial Nicky Chinn (dúo generalmente acreditado como Chinn & Chapman), creó una serie de sencillos de gran éxito para artistas como Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud y Racey, creando un sonido caracterísicto que llegó a ser identificado con la marca "Chinnichap". Más tarde, en solitario produjo álbumes innovadores de Blondie y The Knack.

## Canciones exitosas

La siguiente es una lista de canciones producidas, o escritas y producidas por Chapman / Chinn o bien, con Chapman como único productor que aparecieron en los UK Singles Chart:

* 1971:

    New World: "Tom Tom Turnaround", "Kara Kara"
    The Sweet: "Funny Funny", "Co-Co", "Alexander Graham Bell"
* 1972:

    The Sweet: "Poppa Joe", "Little Willy", "Wig-Wam Bam"
    New World: "Sister Jane"
* 1973:

    Mud: "Crazy", "Hypnosis", "Dyna-Mite"
    Suzi Quatro: "Can the Can", "48 Crash", "Daytona Demon"
    The Sweet: "Block Buster!", "Hellraiser", "The Ballroom Blitz"
* 1974:

    Arrows: "Touch Too Much"
    Mud: "Tiger Feet", "The Cat Crept In", "Rocket", "Lonely This Christmas"
    Suzi Quatro: "Devil Gate Drive", "Too Big", "The Wild One"
    The Sweet: "Teenage Rampage", "The Sixteens", "Turn It Down"
* 1975:

    Mud: "The Secrets That You Keep", "Moonshine Sally" (originally recorded in 1972), "One Night"
    Suzi Quatro: "Your Mama Won’t Like Me"
    Smokie: "If You Think You Know How to Love Me", "Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll to Me"
* 1976:

    Smokie: "Something's Been Making Me Blue", "I'll Meet You at Midnight", "Living Next Door to Alice"
* 1977:

    Suzi Quatro: "Tear Me Apart"
    Smokie: "Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone", "It's Your Life", "Needles and Pins"
* 1978:

    Suzi Quatro: "The Race is On", "If You Can’t Give Me Love", "Stumblin' In" (with Chris Norman)
    Racey: "Lay Your Love on Me"
    Smokie: "For A Few Dollars More", "Oh Carol"
    Exile: "Kiss You All Over"
    Nick Gilder: "Hot Child in the City"
* 1979:

    Suzi Quatro: "She's in Love with You"
    Racey: "Some Girls"
* 1980:

    Suzi Quatro: "Mama's Boy" (producer only), "I've Never Been in Love" (producer only)
* 1982:

    Toni Basil: "Mickey"
* 1983:

    Altered Images: "Don't Talk To Me About Love" (sole producer only), "Love To Stay" (sole producer only)
    Bow Wow Wow: "Do Ya Wanna Hold Me" (sole producer only)
    Huey Lewis and the News: "Heart and Soul"
    Pat Benatar: Love Is a Battlefield (co-written with Holly Knight)
* 1984:

    Tina Turner: "Better Be Good to Me" (co-written with Holly Knight)
* 1990:

    Tina Turner: "The Best" (co-written with Holly Knight), also reissued in 1993 as B-side to "I Don't Wanna Fight No More"
* 1995:

    Smokie featuring Roy 'Chubby' Brown: "Living Next Door to Alice" (spoof rendition).
