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Career

Reilly first came to prominence as a member of the 1970s soul outfit

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Awards and nominations

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Discography

Solo albums

* '' 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'' (2021)

Solo singles

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Collaborations with Mike Oldfield

* '' QE2'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1993) * '' XXV: The Essential'' (1997)

Collaborations with other artists

– ''Cado Belle'' (1976) * Jim Wilkie – ''The Waxer'' (1979) * Doll by Doll – ''Grand Passion'' (1982) *

& J.J. Burnel – ''Fire & Water'' (1983) *

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– ''Naked Shakespeare'' (1983) *

– '' Profiles'' (1985) *

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– ''Sleight of Hand'' (1986) *

– ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1986) *

– ''Willpower'' (1989) *

– '' Vision Thing'' (1990) *

– ''Sleight of Hand'' (1986) *

– ''Somethin' Else'' (1992) *

– ''Cities of the Heart'' (1993) * The Lenny MacDowell Project – ''Lost Paradise'' (1993) * Artists For Nature – ''Earthrise, The Rainforest Album'' (1994) *

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– ''Stage Heroes'' (1994) *

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– ''Engel Wie Du'' (1994) *

– ''The Collectors Edition'' (1996) *

– ''Sitting on top of the World'' (1997) *

– ''Before Your Time / Consonant Please Carol'' (1998) * Smokie – '' Wild Horses – The Nashville Album'' (1998) * Smokie – ''Our Swedish Collection'' (1999) *

– ''Times'' (2003) / ''Auracle'' (2004) * XII Alfonso – ''Charles Darwin'' (2012)

References

External links

*
Heartsong, official Maggie Reilly Fan Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reilly, Maggie 1956 births Living people Musicians from Glasgow 20th-century Scottish women singers Scottish folk singers Scottish pop singers Scottish people of Irish descent British soft rock musicians 21st-century Scottish women singers