Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956)[1] is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. Most notably, she performed lead vocals on the Oldfield songs "Family Man", "Moonlight Shadow", "To France", and "Foreign Affair", all of which were international hits in the early 1980s.
Maggie Reilly | |
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 Reilly in 2023 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 15 September 1956 Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
| Labels |
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| Website | maggie-reilly |
Career
editReilly first came to prominence as a member of the 1970s soul outfit Cado Belle (previously named Joe Cool) and released one album with them in 1976.[2]
She is best known for her collaborations with the composer Mike Oldfield between 1980 and 1984,[2][3] especially by co-writing and performing the vocals on "Family Man" (from the album Five Miles Out), "Moonlight Shadow", "Foreign Affair" (from the album Crises) and "To France" (from the album Discovery).
In 1992 Reilly released her debut solo album Echoes,[2] 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 27 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, Taco Ockerse, The Sisters of Mercy, and Smokie. "Moonlight Shadow 2k14" (Michael Fall remix) was released on 23 May 2014 on the German label ZYX Music.
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Awards | Work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | RSH Gold Awards | Herself | Best Artist with German producer | Won | [4] |
| Danish Music Awards | Best International Female | Nominated | [5] |
Discography
editSolo albums
edit- Echoes (1992)
- Midnight Sun (1993)
- Elena (1996)
- All the Mixes (1996) (as M.R.)
- 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)
- Heaven Sent (2013)
- Starfields (2019)
- The Best of Maggie Reilly: Past – Present – Future (2021)
- Happy Christmas (2022)
- Elfinguard (2024)
Solo singles
edit| Year | Title | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NED | AUT | BEL (FL) |
GER [6] |
NOR | SWE | SWI | |||||||
| 1969 | "Imagine Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||
| 1984 | "As Tears Go By" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 1991 | "What About Tomorrows Children" | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Echoes | ||||
| 1992 | "Everytime We Touch" | 63 | 5 | 47 | 16 | 1 | 34 | 24 | |||||
| "Wait" | — | 23 | — | 54 | — | — | 28 | ||||||
| "Tears in the Rain" | — | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1993 | "Follow the Midnight Sun" | — | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | Midnight Sun | ||||
| "Every Single Heartbeat" | — | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1994 | "Don't Wanna Lose" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 1996 | "Walk on By" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Elena | ||||
| "Listen to Your Heart" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Walk on By (The Mixes)" (as M.R.) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | All The Mixes | |||||
| 1997 | "To France (The Mixes)" (as M.R.) | 53 | 17 | — | 19 | — | — | 22 | |||||
| "Listen to Your Heart (The Mixes)" (as M.R.) | — | 38 | — | 44 | — | — | 44 | ||||||
| 1998 | "One Little Word" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Best of Maggie Reilly – There and Back Again | ||||
| 2000 | "Always You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Starcrossed | ||||
| "Adelena" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 2002 | "Save It for a Rainy Day" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Save It for a Rainy Day | ||||
| 2012 | "My Angel" (with Nu Frequency) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Connected Remixes (Nu Frequency album) | ||||
| 2013 | "Juliette" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Heaven Sent | ||||
| "Cold the Snow Clad Mountain" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Where the Heart Lies" (with Bryan Rice)[7] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |||||
| 2015 | "Everytime We Touch" (remastered) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||
Collaborations with Mike Oldfield
edit- 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
edit- 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)
- 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)
- Juliane Werding and Viktor Lazlo – Engel Wie Du (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 – The Nashville Album (1998)
- Smokie – Our Swedish Collection (1999)
- Lesiëm – Times (2003) / Auracle (2004)
- XII Alfonso – Charles Darwin (2012)
- Taco Ockerse - Heaven Sent (2024)
References
edit- ^ Maggie Reilly's Biography on Myspace
- ^ a b c Ankeny, Jason. "Maggie Reilly Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ Buckley, Peter (2003) The Rough Guide to Rock, Rough Guides, ISBN 978-1843531050, p. 747.
- ^ "RSH - Wie alles begann... - RSH Gold 1993". 27 June 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015.
- ^ "Dansk Grammy 1993". www.hug-info.dk.
- ^ "Maggie Reilly – German Chart". charts.de. Retrieved 5 June 2014.[dead link]
- ^ "Where the Heart Lies (single)". Apple Music. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2021.