Maggie Bell
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Maggie Bell (born 12 January 1945, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a blues singer who collaborated with many notable musicians including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, on her Suicide Sal album in 1975. Her soulful pipes earned her a reputation as the “British Janis Joplin” and she was a member of the hard rocking live blues rock bands Stone The Crows and Midnight Flyer.
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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. Alex Harvey, after being impressed with her singing introduced her to his brother Leslie Harvey who 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. 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. In her words “we worked six nights a week. We worked in Universities and Polytechnics, we were a working band.” They were managed by Peter Grant, signed to Polydor, and also toured the US, including a stint on Joe Cocker’s Mad Dog’s & Englishmen tour and a memorable gig at the Fillmore West with Miles Davis who told Maggie she could “sing her ass off”.
Early Career & Recent Update:
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. Alex Harvey, after being impressed with her singing introduced her to his brother Leslie Harvey who 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. 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. In her words “we worked six nights a week. We worked in Universities and Polytechnics, we were a working band.” They were managed by Peter Grant, signed to Polydor, and also toured the US, including a stint on Joe Cocker’s Mad Dog’s & Englishmen tour and a memorable gig at the Fillmore West with Miles Davis who told Maggie she could “sing her ass off”.
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Suicide Sal
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Queen of the Night
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The River Sessions
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Live At The Rainbow 1974
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yohanpalych
happy birthday!
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luckystoned
she is the queen of the night.
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DHedley
There's been a muuuuuuuurd-er!
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littlalex
So much music now in the world and so little love for maggie...sigh
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No Mean City!
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