Maggie Reilly
Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. She performed lead vocals on the Mike Oldfield songs "Family Man", "Moonlight Shadow", "To France", and "Foreign Affair", all of which were international hits in the early 1980s.
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Maggie Reilly

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- Name
- Maggie Reilly
- Born
- 15 September 1951
- Birthplace
- Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland
- Nationality
- United Kingdom.
- Occupation
- singer, musician and songwriter.
- Fields
- pop music.
- Education
- Boroughmuir High School.
- Languages
- English.
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Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. She performed lead vocals on the Mike Oldfield songs "Family Man", "Moonlight Shadow", "To France", and "Foreign Affair", all of which were international hits in the early 1980s.
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Maggie Reilly (born 1956) is a British musician, singer and songwriter. The musician was born in Glasgow.
Maggie Reilly studied at Boroughmuir High School. The musician is a member of Cado Belle.
Genres include pop music. Languages used include English.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Maggie Reilly • Born — 15 September 1951 • Birthplace — Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland • Genre — * Pop • folk • soft rock • Years Active — 1970s–present • Label — * EMI • Red Berry • Website — maggie-reilly.net
Career
Career
Reilly 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. She collaborated with the composer Mike Oldfield between 1980 and 1984, especially by performing the vocals on "Family Man" (co-written by Reilly; from the album Five Miles Out), "Moonlight Shadow", "Foreign Affair" (co-written by Reilly; from the album Crises) and "To France" (from the album Discovery). In 1992 Reilly released 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 27 years. She has also worked with 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.
Studio albums
Studio albums
• Echoes (1992) • Midnight Sun (1993) • Elena (1996) • Starcrossed (2000) • Save It for a Rainy Day (2002) • Rowan (2006) • Looking Back, Moving Forward (2009) • Heaven Sent (2013) • Starfields (2019) • Happy Christmas (2022) • Elfinguard (2024) (with Stuart MacKillop)
Compilation albums
Compilation albums
• All the Mixes (1996) (as ṀṘ) • The Best of Maggie Reilly, There and Back Again (1998) • The Best of Maggie Reilly: Past – Present – Future (2021)
Solo singles
Solo singles
• Year — Title — Peak positions — Album • UK — AUT — BEL (FL) — GER — NED — NOR — SWE — SWI • 1969 — "Imagine Me" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — rowspan="2" • 1984 — "As Tears Go By" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — • 1991 — "What About Tomorrows Children" — — — — — — — — — 30 — — — — — — — Echoes • 1992 — "Everytime We Touch" — 99 — 5 — 47 — 16 — 63 — 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.) — — — 17 — — — 19 — 53 — — — — — 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) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — rowspan="2" • 2015 — "Everytime We Touch" (remastered) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — • "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.
Collaborations with Mike Oldfield
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
Collaborations with other artists
• Cado Belle – Cado Belle (1976) • Jim Wilkie – The Waxer (1979) • Pumphouse Gang - Welcome Back Into My Life (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)
Works and production
Works and production
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q233919: Maggie Reilly
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1248237331, Happy Christmas (Zusammenstellung, Maggie Reilly).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
reference work
- “Maggie Reilly”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and nominations
* Year — Awards — Work — Category — Result — Ref.
* RSH Gold Awards — Best Artist with German producer
* Danish Music Awards — Best International Female
* 2006 — Dance Award
* 2007 — Pop Award
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Maggie Reilly's Biography on Myspace
- 2.Ankeny, Jason. Maggie Reilly Biography. AllMusic.
- 3.Buckley, Peter (2003) The Rough Guide to Rock, Rough Guides, , p. 747.
- 4.RSH - Wie alles begann. - RSH Gold 1993. 27 June 2015.
- 5.Dansk Grammy 1993. Hug-info.dk.
- 6.2006 BMI London Awards - BMI. Bmi.com. 4 October 2006.
- 7.2007 BMI London Awards: Song List - BMI. Bmi.com. 17 October 2007.
- 8.Maggie Reilly – German Chart. Charts.de.
- 9.Where the Heart Lies (single). Apple Music. 4 September 2015.
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q233919: Maggie ReillyWikimedia Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1248237331, Happy Christmas (Zusammenstellung, Maggie Reilly).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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This entry is compiled from 6 catalogued sources across 6 independent registers. The registers consulted are Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago, DOAJ, Internet Archive and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
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