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About Bob Catley:

Bob Catley (born 11 September 1947), is the conduct singer with British stone band Magnum and a alone artist in his own just. He is extensively considered to be single of the unsurpassed singers in the melodic stone friendly, and is known representing his rich, distinguishing speech and adeptness to convey put hand on.

Catley has started his melodic job in ribbon Magnum (founded in 1972). Following Magnum's demise in 1995 and the little-lived Hard Rain offer, Catley joined up with Ten soloist and songwriter Gary Hughes to let go the album The Tower (1997), before long followed close the supporting living album Live At The Gods (1997). Hughes again wrote the material championing 1999's Legends free, and the critically acclaimed concept album Middle Earth (2001), which was inspired beside J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Despite rejoining Magnum following their reformation in 2002, Catley has continued his alone pose with keyboardist Paul Hodson handwriting and producing 2003's When Empires Burn, his heaviest on one's own liberate to period. His latest solo album, Spirit Of Man (2006) proverb as till another exchange in songwriting as Dave Thompson and Paul Uttley of Lost Weekend, and Vince O'Regan of Pulse did the honours.

As satisfactorily as his calling with Magnum and as a solo artist, Catley has lent his vocal talents to other projects next to such artists as Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman, Gary Hughes, Ayreon and Tobias Sammett of Edguy (Avantasia).

Magnum's latest album, Princess Alice & The Broken Arrow was released in 2007 to wonderful reviews and Catley has announced plans to pen a new solo album toward the end of the year, place down for loose in 2008.