Michael Edward Campbell Champion (born November 3, 1946 in

Anderson, Indiana Anderson, named after Chief William Anderson, is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses Madison County. Anderson is ...

– died June 16, 2021) was an American singer, songwriter and musician who started his public career in

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. In 1967, with a short-lived band called 'The Abstract Reality', he released a 45 rpm single called ''Love Burns Like A Fire Inside''. (Note: side B: ib. instrumental version) With Bob 'Babbitt' Kreinar,

Ray Monette Ray Monette is an American musician born on May 7, 1946. He started his career as a session musician with Motown. He was also a songwriter and, in 1967 Detroit started a band called The Abstract Reality, who released a 45 rpm single "Love Burns Li ...

and Andrew Smith he formed Scorpion. His name appears as Mike Campbell on the album ''Scorpion'' and

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's debut album '' Stoney & Meatloaf'' (1971). For this recording, apart from having co-written four songs, he played the harmonica on ''Lady Be Mine''.Stoney and Meatloaf
The Almost Complete Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman Lyric Archive (Retrieved 2 July 2011) He became an actor by the name of Michael Champion and since 1979 played in several TV series and films such as ''

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'' (1993), '' Matlock'' (1989), and ''

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'' (1991, as

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), '' History of the World: Part I'' (1981), ''

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'' (1984), '' Total Recall'' (1990) and ''

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'' (1991), and video game characters like the terrorist in Flash Traffic: City of Angels (1994) and 'Wolf' in

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(1996).For the alias of Michael Campbell
Michael Champion
The Internet Movie Database (Retrieved 2 July 2011)

Michael Champion Filmography
Fandango (Retrieved 2 July 2011)
Note: This Fandango source also shows Michael Champion (corresponding to the above IMDb source) as composer of the music score for the documentary '' The Union: The Business Behind Getting High'' (2007), which score may have been by another Michael Champion
IMDb Michael Champion II
Musician and record co-producer Ralph Terrana has been quoted: "He ampbellwas a very talented writer. He also could be a little unusual. We called him Crazy Mike."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Champion, Michael 1946 births 2021 deaths People from Anderson, Indiana American male singer-songwriters American male television actors American male video game actors American male film actors Singer-songwriters from Indiana