Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billowy curves outlined in clinging red satin, Maggie Bell jingles a tambourine and struts across the stage. "I was the universe in your eyes, and I was the sunset and sunrise," she intones huskily. With an emphatic toss of her head, Bell shakes out a jungle of tangled curls, bawling lustily, "I know you send your regards to the queen of the night." As the final notes drown in a roar of noisy affirmation, she mops her streaming face with a Turkish towel...
Still little known in the U.S., Glasgow-born Maggie Bell is a European rock superstar. Her impassioned, straight-from-the-gut delivery-equally effective in bluesy ballads or skull-crushing rockers-has twice earned her election as Britain's top female singer. Her earthy vitality and ability to light up a stage convinced Atlantic and Polydor talent scouts to sign her up in 1973 for $750,000 worth of recording contracts. "I've never had a hit record in my life," admits Maggie. "But I'm a working-class girl, I don't spare the effort...
...despite the gypsy fortune-teller exterior, Scotland's princess of wails is about as funky as a Girl Scout. Music is her life, Maggie maintains, although she does not disdain the idea of marriage. She cannot pass a child without smiling, and youngsters in return respond to Bell's fresh-faced charm. "The high point of my career," she reflects gravely, "was when I came to the U.S. and found that Americans are allowing single people to adopt babies...
...current 40-city tour, Bell has predominantly worked as a warm-up act for other groups. That will give American audiences an "opportunity to get to know me gradually," she says. But as the Doobie Brothers, Poco and Dave Mason all can attest, she frequently upstages the headliners with a vocal style as subtle as Vesuvius. Small wonder that, on occasion, lights and sound equipment have suffered mysterious malfunctions during Maggie...
...Bell, 29, grew up in the crumbling gray slums of Glasgow's Maryhill district, which she calls "the Harlem of Great Britain." Her mother is a retired coffee-shop waitress. Her father, who died last year, was a mechanic who spent his evenings picking out popular ballads on the family piano. The family celebrity was his sister Doris Droy, a vaudeville singer and Maggie's idol, who was billed as "Suicide...