Mike Chapman - Later Work

Later Work

Chapman remained in demand through the 1980s and 1990s as a songwriter and producer. His compositions have included Tina Turner's "Simply The Best", "Better Be Good to Me" and "In Your Wildest Dreams" and Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" (all co-written with Holly Knight), while he has produced albums for Altered Images, Australian Crawl, Agnetha Fältskog, Divinyls, Rod Stewart, Lita Ford, Pat Benatar, Baby Animals, Material Issue and Bow Wow Wow.

In 1998 Chapman co-wrote two songs for Ace of Base, "Always Have, Always Will" and "Whenever You're Near Me" .

1999 to 2001 Chapman wrote and produced Babyphetamine, an album by teenager Erin Evermore for the Tigerstar label owned by former Chrysalis Records head Terry Ellis.

In 2006, he wrote "Back to the Drive", the title track for a new Suzi Quatro album. In the liner notes Quatro thanks Chapman "for providing the title track and overseeing the entire project".

In 2007, Chapman began working with the Los Angeles rock band The Automatic Music Explosion. The band's lead singer, Matt Starr, flew across the country to Chapman's East Coast home in an attempt to meet the producer. The bold move worked, with Chapman flying to Los Angeles a month later to see the band perform live and ultimately agreeing to produce their first album.

In January 2008, Chapman produced the forthcoming single "Spin It" with The Neighborhood Bullys.

In May 2008, Chapman began mixing songs from "Your Doll," for Lisa Douglass.

In September 2008 Chapman met LA band 'HAIM', and over that Xmas and New Year started producing an album with the band. It is still under construction.

In 2009 Mike Chapman visited the UK to write songs with London based band iCON. ""Are You Stupid or Something?", "Talk You Through It", "Dirty Love" and "Do Or Die Moon", all of which will appear on the forthcoming album iCON - Smash My Box.

In November 2008 Chapman also started writing with and producing a solo album for Sarah Jeanette, singer with LA band The Mullhollands.

In November 2009 Chapman recorded the debut album for UK band The Arcadian Kicks. Release is pending.

2010/2012 Chapman has been working in London with Twigs, David Jordan, Nell Ryder and most recently, Polly Money.