Cameron Andrew McVey[1] (born 11 August 1957)[2] is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.
He has worked with the acts Massive Attack, Portishead, All Saints, Sugababes, and his wife Neneh Cherry.
He took the photograph featured on Madness' 1979 album One Step Beyond.... McVey started creating music as a member of the new wave band Bim in the early 1980s, in which he was the lead singer.
Originally conceived as a Simon & Garfunkel-style male vocal duo who would harmonise over reggae beats, early demos failed to deliver on the concept.
[3] Facing creative inertia, the act's record company convinced them to work with rising pop producers Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW), a proposition that left them with mixed feelings.
[8][9][10] McVey met Neneh Cherry in 1987 at Heathrow Airport while they were en route to Japan as fashion models as part of London Designer Ray Petri's Buffalo Posse.