Kevin Macmichael, the leader of the Nova Scotia band Cutting Crew, has died. The guitarist and songwriter died in a Halifax hospital of cancer. He was 51.
Mcmichael wrote the band's best-known hit I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight. The song went to the top of the charts around the world in 1987.
Since Cutting Crew's demise in the early 1990s, Macmichael played with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant on the album Fate of Nations, and toured with Plant through Europe. Macmichael also played in Pete Best's Beatles Tribute band, and produced local talent in Nova Scotia. He was diagnosed with lung cancer nearly three years ago. Staff