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Macmichael was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
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They were Beatles fans from the very beginning, learned to play many of their early songs, and went to see A Hard Day"s Night in Halifax. He played with the Nova Scotia band Chalice and in 1978, he joined the band, Spice. In the early 1980s he was part of the Halifax band, Fast Forward, when he met Nick Van Eede, who was touring Canada as vocalist with the band The Drivers.
Macmichael moved to London, England and began Cutting Crew along with Van Eede in 1985.
After Cutting Crew"s run of success ended and Virgin Records let them go, he worked with Robert Plant playing guitar and composing songs for his 1993 album, Fate of Nations. His interlude with Plant was short-lived: Macmichael recalled when he auditioned for Plant, ""Play me something," he said.
He"s about my age so the first things that came to mind were songs by Buffalo Springfield and Moby Grape. On December 31, 2002, he died of lung cancer at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Macmichael"s remains were cremated.
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Quotations: "Play me something,". "Never leave medical "" The partnership lasted the single album and a world tour before Plant reunited with Jimmy Page, but the album"s single "Calling to You".
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