Maggie Bell
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Maggie Bell (born 12 January 1945, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a singer.
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[edit] Career
From a musical family, she sang from her teens, leaving school at the age of fifteen, to work as a window dresser by day and singer at night. [1].
Bell was introduced to Leslie Harvey, by his older brother Alex, after getting up on stage to sing with him (Alex). Leslie Harvey was, at that time, a guitarist with the Kinning Park Ramblers. Bell joined the group as as one of the vocalists. After the band split she moved to the Mecca Band at the Sauchiehall Street Locarno, and later to the Dennistoun Palais Band.[2]. She then rejoined Harvey, forming a group, initially known as Power, eventually travelling to Germany to sing on U.S. airforce bases in the mid 1960s. Power was later renamed as Stone the Crows. This group lasted until 1973, finding that Harvey's death from accidental electrocution in 1972 took too much out of the group for them to continue.
Her first solo album was recorded in New York with record producer, Jerry Wexler.
She had a hit in the UK in 1981 duetting with B.A. Robertson on "Hold Me", reaching number 11 in the UK Singles Chart.
Her song "No Mean City", written by Mike Moran, is the theme music to the TV crime drama Taggart.
[edit] Discography
- Every Picture Tells A Story (with Rod Stewart) 1970
- Queen of the Night 1974
- Suicide Sal 1975
[edit] Notes
- ^ Logan, Nick & Woffinden, Bob (eds.) „The New Musical Express Book of Rock”, W.H. Allen &Co. Ltd (Star), 1973, p. 48. ISBN 0-352-39715-2.
- ^ Logan, Nick & Woffinden, Bob (eds.) „The New Musical Express Book of Rock”, W.H. Allen &Co. Ltd (Star), 1973, p. 489. ISBN 0-352-39715-2.
