Al Campbell is a keyboard

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

 player. He was in the 1980s band Kid Lightning. In 1981 Kid Lightning released an album with Gerard McMahon

Gerard McMahon

Gerard McMahon is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who specialises in creating music for films and TV...

 of "Cry Little Sister

Cry Little Sister

"Cry Little Sister" is a single by Gerard McMann and Michael Mainieri from the 1987 soundtrack to the film The Lost Boys. The album peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200, the single did not chart in the U.S....

" fame.

Prior to Kid Lightning, Campbell undertook work as a session musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

.

In 1983, Campbell assisted producer Artie Ripp by playing keyboards on several tracks of a remix of Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

's Cold Spring Harbor

Cold Spring Harbor (album)

Cold Spring Harbor was Billy Joel's first solo album, and was released in 1971. He had already released several albums as a member of the bands The Hassles and Attila...

album.

Campbell's name also appears amongst the credits for Jimmy Ibottson's 1977 Nitty Gritty Ibbotson album.