Robin McAuley

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Robin McAuley (center) during a 2012 New York concert

Robin McAuley (born January 20, 1953 in County Meath , Ireland ) is an Irish rock singer who was best known as the singer of the McAuley Schenker Group .

Career

McAuley was the singer in the band Grand Prix , with whom he recorded two albums. Between these projects he was a member of the group Far Corporation and also released a solo single - a cover of the song Eloise written by Paul Ryan .

With the McAuley Schenker Group he recorded the studio albums: Perfect Timing, Save Yourself and MSG , the live album Unplugged Live and the EP Nightmare - The Acoustic MSG He also produced the Iron Maiden tribute Run to the Hills and Schenker a "re-recorded version" of Save Yourself .

McAuley also released the solo album Business As Usual exclusively in Japan . In addition, he was involved in various tribute albums and two albums by The V-Project . From 2006 to 2011 he was the lead singer of the band Survivor , in 2012 he took over this position in the American part of Michael Schenker 's Temple of Rock tour. Since 2016 he has been a permanent member of the Michael Schenker Fest formation of the German rock guitarist Michael Schenker.

In 2019 Frontiers Records won him for a project that Jeff Pilson ( Dokken , Foreigner ) was commissioned to realize . Pilson put together a band for McAuley that includes McAuley, Pilson ( bass ), Reb Beach ( guitar ), and Matt Starr ( drums ). The band went by the name Black Swan and recorded the album Shake the World , which was released in February 2020.

Discography

Grand Prix

  • 1982: There For None To See
  • 1983: Samurai

Far Corporation

  • 1985: Division One
  • 1994: Solitude

McAuley Schenker Group

  • 1987: Perfect Timing
  • 1989: Save Yourself
  • 1992: MSG
  • 1992: Nightmare - The Acoustic MSG
  • 1993: Unplugged - Live

solo

  • 1999: Business As Usual

Michael Schenker Group (MSG)

  • 2006: Tales of Rock'N'Roll - Twenty-Five Years Celebration (Robin McAuley was a guest on this album. He wrote the lyrics and vocals in Tell A Story ; the music was Michael Schenker ).

Michael Schenker

  • 2011: Temple of Rock (Robin McAuley was a guest on this album. He wrote the lyrics and vocals in Lover's Sinfony ; the music was Michael Schenker).

Michael Schenker Festival

  • 2017: Live - Tokyo International Forum Hall A (concert on August 24, 2016. McAuley is here, alongside Gary Barden and Graham Bonnet, one of three ex-MSG singers).
  • 2018: Resurrection (first studio album with the three ex-MSG singers from the 1980s: Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley, as well as singer Doogie White from Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock).
  • 2019: Revelation (second studio album with the three ex-MSG singers from the 1980s: Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley, as well as singer Doogie White from Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock).

Black Swan

  • 2020: Shake the World

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grand Prix . rockdetector.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 8, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  2. ↑ Information about the band at discogs.com , accessed on January 15, 2020
  3. ↑ The band of misunderstood geniuses in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 02/2020, pages 34–37
personal data
SURNAME McAuley, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH County Meath