Michael Chapman (24 January 1941 – 10 September 2021)[2][3] was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist who released 58 albums, displaying a "fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles [that] made him a cult hero".

His first album was Rainmaker (1969), produced by Gus Dudgeon, who also worked with Elton John, David Bowie and Steeleye Span, and released on the EMI progressive label Harvest.

Fully Qualified Survivor (1970), again produced by Dudgeon and with lush strings arranged by Paul Buckmaster, received much critical acclaim from the likes of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and contained his best-known track, "Postcards of Scarborough".

After a tour of the United States with Kemp, Chapman signed to Decca's subsidiary, Deram, recording an increasingly rockier set of albums.

[2] Championed by Charles Shaar Murray and John Peel, he retained a high profile, a lively draw on the college circuit in the UK and across mainland Europe.

[2] Chapman's Decca deal ended with the release of The Man Who Hated Mornings (1977), which was almost immediately re-issued as part of his association with Criminal Records, in 1978.

He continued to make recordings that straddled musical genres and pushed his guitar playing to the fore, but had neither the profile nor sales of the previous decade, and "for a while he supplemented his income by delivering cars".

In February 2008, he hosted a charity dinner/auction where a limited edition Vanity and Pride was released featuring Ursa who added her own contribution to Chapman's music.

"[8] Michael and Andru Chapman never married but entered a civil partnership in 2020, having lived "in a farm house in Northumbria, just south of Hadrian’s Wall" since the early 1970s.