- Greg Champion
Greg Champion is an Australian
songwriter ,guitar ist, radio personality and polymath.Born in
Benalla, Victoria , Champion is most recognised for his work as part of theCoodabeen Champions as a songwriter and guitarist. Greg often appears on the program writing songs about both Aussies rules football and cricket. He is an avidAustralian rules football fan, supporting theAdelaide Crows and since the 1980s has penned many tunes on the Australian game. Of these, the most famous is "That's the Thing about Football ", which has gone down as a classic Australian rules song, and has been used onSeven Network 's AFL coverage. The song reached #31 in 1994 on the AustralianARIA Charts .Champion's highest selling album is the 1996 released "Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs" with Australian country music star
Colin Buchanan . Under the moniker "Bucko & Champs", their duet "Aussie Jingle Bells" is a favourite at Christmas time. In 2006 a sequel to "Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs" was released featuring 25 Christmas-themed songs.Today Champion appears on
ABC Local Radio as part of the Coodabeens team, singing parodies of popular songs and relating them to Australian rules footballers.Greg Champion grew up in
Hectorville , which is a small but significant part of the City of Campbelltown, a suburb of the South Australian capital,Adelaide .Champs (Greg Champion) has written hundreds of songs (many serious, many humorous) and is a multi-awarded country/folk singing, who after being discovered in the Catacombs (a legendary Adelaide night club of the 70’s), went on to form the band “Tidewater” before launching a successful solo career.
External links
* [http://www.gregchampion.com.au/ Greg Champion site]
* [http://www.coodabeens.com.au Coodabeen Champions Official Site]
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