Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly has covered vast musical ground. From the jazz/funk of Cado Belle, performances with Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, her collaboration with Prog rocker Mike Oldfield, duets with Jack Bruce (Cream) and Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) through early nineties Euro pop and her thoughtful solo albums of the last decade. Maggie’s first came to prominence with the seminal Scottish funk-rock-band Cado Belle before forming her much acclaimed partnership with Mike Oldfield, which produced such great songs as ‘Moonlight Shadow’, ‘To France’ and the Hall & Oates hit ‘Family Man’ for which she received an ASCAP award in 1984. After parting with Oldfield and taking time out to start a family, Maggie resumed her solo career and awards came with increasing frequency. She joined forces with the major German publishing house Mambo, producing the Album ‘Echoes’ in 1991 for which she wrote the massive worldwide hit ‘Everytime we Touch’ alongside the European hits ‘Wait’ and ‘Tears in the Rain’. In 1996, on the first of her albums for EMI, ‘Elena’ displayed a move towards a more insightful songwriting style. The release of ‘Starcrossed’ (2000) picked up the threads from Elena and provided more evidence of her subtle skills, particularly on the stunning single ‘Adelena’ (including an electrifying guitar solo by Chris Rea) and the beautiful ‘Half-light’ In 2006 Maggie returned to her Scottish roots with the release of ‘Rowan’. This is an album of original songs, mixed seamlessly with traditional Scottish and English folk songs with the Reilly twist. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Maggie Reilly Facebook Page