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Maggie Bell was born in Glasgow (January 12, 1945) and came from a musical family. As a teenager she sang with local dance bands, then went to Germany in the mid-sixties to sing at US airforce bases. Returning to Scotland, she and the band's guitarist Leslie Harvey, (younger brother of the famous Alex (the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) formed a new group called Power which later became Stone The Crows. They were managed by Mark London and Peter Grant, the man behind Led Zeppelin. After Leslie was accidentally electrocuted on stage in 1972, the heart went out of the group. They worked for a while with fellow Scots guitarist Jimmy McCulloch, but broke up after a year. Explains Maggie: "When Leslie died, it was never the same. The band continued for a while, then we agreed it was the end of an era. Colin Allen, our drummer, was offered a job with Focus and Jimmy joined Wings”
Maggie released two well received solo albums produced by Jerry Wexler, 'Queen Of The Night,'(1973), and 'Suicide Sal’ (1975).
She had a hit in the UK in 1981 dueting with B.A. Robertson on "Hold Me" reaching number 11.
Her song No Mean City was the theme to the popular television crime drama series 'Taggart'.
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