Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly
Born	15 September 1956 (1956-09-15) (age 55)
Origin	Glasgow, Scotland
Genres	Pop, Folk, Soft Rock
Years active	1970s – present
Labels	EMI, Red Berry Records
Associated acts	Cado Belle, Mike Oldfield
Website	Official website

Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. Most notably, she performed the vocals on the song Moonlight Shadow, which was an international hit in 1983.

Career

Reilly first came to prominence as a member of the 1970s white-soul outfit Cado Belle, and released one album with them in 1976.

She is best known for her collaborations with the composer Mike Oldfield between 1980 and 1984, especially by co-writing and performing the vocals on "Family Man" and other tracks on the album Five Miles Out (1982), "Moonlight Shadow" (1983), "Foreign Affair" (1983), and "To France" (1984).

In 1992, she issued her debut solo album Echoes, from which the singles "Everytime We Touch", "Tears in the Rain" and "Wait" were the most successful. A series of solo albums were released over the next seventeen years.

She has also worked with many other artists, including Mike Batt (on his Hunting of the Snark album), Jack Bruce, Dave Greenfield & Jean-Jacques Burnel, Nick Mason & Rick Fenn, Michael Cretu, Lesiëm, Ralph McTell, Simon Nicol (of Fairport Convention), Stefan Zauner (of Münchener Freiheit), Runrig, The Sisters of Mercy, and Smokie.

Maggie and song writing partner Stuart MacKillop are collaborating (2009) with novelist and screenwriter Tom Stevens on a movie project entitled 'Lilith: the last temptation of Adam'. Maggie and Stuart are writing the movie soundtrack which will also be released on CD. ^[1] Maggie, Stuart and Tom Stevens together with Pauline Richards are part of Green Chapel Films movie production company.

Discography

Solo albums

• Echoes (1992)
• Midnight Sun (1993)
• All the Mixes (1996)
• Elena (1996)
• Elena: The Mixes (1997)
• The Best of Maggie Reilly, There and Back Again (1998)
• Starcrossed (2000)
• Save It for a Rainy Day (2002)
• Rowan (2006)
• Looking Back, Moving Forward (2009)

Solo singles

• "As Tears Go By" (1984)
• "What About Tomorrows Children" (1991)
• "Everytime We Touch" (1992)
• "Wait" (1992)
• "Tears in the Rain" (1992)
• "Follow the Midnight Sun" (1993)
• "Every Single Heartbeat" (1993)
• "Don't Wanna Lose" (1994)
• "Walk on By" (1996)
• "Walk on By" - The Mixes (1996)
• "To France" - The Mixes (1996)
• "Listen to Your Heart" (1996)
• "To France" - The Mixes II (1997)
• "Listen to Your Heart" - The Mixes (1997)
• "Listen to Your Heart" - The Mixes II (1997)
• "One Little Word" (1998)

Collaborations with Mike Oldfield

• QE2 (1980)
• Five Miles Out (1982)
• Crises (1983)
• Discovery (1984)
• The Complete (1985)
• Earth Moving (1989)
• Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield (1993)
• XXV: The Essential (1997)

Collaborations with other artists

• Cado Belle - Cado Belle (1976)
• Jim Wilkie - The Waxer (1979)
• Doll by Doll - Grand Passion (1982)
• Dave Greenfield & J.J. Burnel - Fire & Water (1983)
• Peter Blegvad - Naked Shakespeare (1983)
• Nick Mason & Rick Fenn - Profiles (1985)
• Flairck - Sleight of Hand (1986)
• Mike Batt - The Hunting of the Snark (1986)
• Jack Bruce - Willpower (1989)
• The Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing (1990)
• Flairck - Sleight of Hand (1986)
• Jack Bruce - Somethin' Else (1992)
• Jack Bruce - Cities of the Heart (1993)
• The Lenny MacDowell Project - Lost Paradise (1993)
• Artists For Nature - Earthrise, The Rainforest Album (1994)
• Colm Wilkinson - Stage Heroes (1994)
• Juliane Werding - Du Schaffst Es (1994)
• Jack Bruce - The Collectors Edition (1996)
• Jack Bruce - Sitting on top of the World (1997)
• Simon Nicol - Before Your Time / Consonant Please Carol (1998)
• Smokie - Wild Horses (1998)
• Smokie - Our Swedish Collection (1999)
• Lesiëm - Times (2003) / Auracle (2004)

Current band members

• Stuart MacKillop - Keyboards
• Mark Hornby - Guitars and Backing vocals
• Simon Little - Basses and Backing vocals
• Steve Alexander - Drums and Percussion

References

1. ^ Maggie Reilly Fan Site

External links

• Official website
• Maggie Reilly on MySpace Music
• Heartsong, an unofficial fansite

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