Angie (song) explained

Angie
Cover:AngieRS.JPG
Type:single
Artist:The Rolling Stones
Album:Goats Head Soup
B-Side:Silver Train
Label:Rolling Stones
Producer:Jimmy Miller
Prev Title:Happy
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Next Year:1973

"Angie" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup. It also served as the lead single on the album, released on 20 August 1973.

Background

The song is credited, as most Rolling Stones songs are, to both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. "Angie" was recorded in November and December 1972 and is an acoustic guitar-driven ballad characterizing the end of a romance. The song's distinctive piano accompaniment, written by Richards, was played on the album by Nicky Hopkins, a Rolling Stones recording-session regular. The strings on the piece (as well as on another song, "Winter") were arranged by Nicky Harrison.[1] An unusual feature of the original recording is that singer Mick Jagger's vocal guide track (made before the final vocals were performed) is faintly audible throughout the song (an effect sometimes called a "ghost vocal").[1] Cash Box said that "Jagger is at his best—slurring words by the dozens to ring out the feeling of every important line."[2] Record World called it a "tender ballad" on which "Mick Jagger's vocal is moving and sensuous."[3]

Released as a single in August 1973, "Angie" went straight to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 5 on the UK singles chart. The song was also a No. 1 hit in both Canada and Australia for five weeks each and topped the charts in many countries throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Because of the song's length, some radio stations made edits to shorten it to 3 minutes, omitting the longer coda and the second instrumental section of the song.

There was speculation that the song was about David Bowie's first wife Angela,[3] [4] [5] [6] Keith Richards' newborn daughter Dandelion Angela,[7] the actress Angie Dickinson,[8] and others. In 1993, in an interview for the liner notes to the Rolling Stones' compilation album , Richards said that the title was inspired by his baby daughter.[9] However, in his 2010 memoir Life, Richards said that he had chosen the name at random when writing the song—before he knew that his baby would be named Angela or even knew that his baby would be a girl—and that the song "was not about any particular person."[10] According to NME, Jagger's contributions to the lyrics referred to his breakup with Marianne Faithfull.

The Rolling Stones have frequently performed the song in concert; it's included in set lists on their 1973, 1975 and 1976 tours; it's available on two of their "Vault" recorded concerts including 1973 Brussels Affair (using electric guitars with Mick Taylor soloing) and Live at the L.A. Forum 1975 (played by Keith Richards and Ron Wood acoustically). It has been a touring staple since their 1982 European Tour.[11] Concert renditions were released on the albums Stripped, Live Licks and .

"Angie" was covered by the American musical duo Womack & Womack in their 1983 album "Love Wars".[12] Also, it was covered by Welsh rock band Stereophonics in 1999, as the B-side to the single "Hurry Up and Wait".[13] The song was also included on the 2010 deluxe re-issue of their 1999 second studio album Performance and Cocktails.[14]

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:[15]

The Rolling Stones

Additional personnel

Music video

Two music videos were shot to promote the song.[16]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1973–1974)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)1
Canada (RPM) Top Singles1
Canada (RPM) Adult Contemporary[17] 39
Denmark (Tracklisten)4
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)16
France (SNEP)1
Italy (Hit Parade)1
South Africa (Springbok)[18] 2
Spain (AFE)[19] 4
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[20] 38
US Cash Box Top 100[21] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)Rank
Australia[22] 19
Canada[23] 6
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[24] 2
Switzerland[25] 2
US Billboard[26] 85
US Cash Box[27] 69

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Janovitz . Bill . [{{AllMusic |class=song |id=angie-mt0001980008 |pure_url=yes}} Angie ]. . 25 September 2021.
  2. News: CashBox Record Reviews. September 8, 1973. 16. 2021-12-11. Cash Box.
  3. Record World. September 8, 1973. 2023-03-22. Hits of the Week. 1.
  4. Schragis . Steven . August 1987 . Love Was a Many-Splendored Thing . . . . 20 . 26 January 2016 . Jagger, it was rumored, had earlier written 'Angie' (Goats Head Soup, 1973) for David Bowie's wife, Angela. .
  5. . 12 October 2010 . Revealed - The Stories Behind The Rolling Stones' Classic Songs: 'Angie' . . . 26 January 2016 . Rumored to be inspired by Angie Bowie, it was actually inspired by Marianne Faithful after her relationship with Jagger collapsed. .
  6. Web site: 6 Famous Songs That Don't Mean What You Think . Brown . Adam Tod . 26 June 2008 . Cracked.com . . 26 January 2016 .
  7. Web site: McPherson . Ian . Track Talk: Angie . 26 January 2016 . timeisonourside.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20090209044946/http://timeisonourside.com/SOAngie.html . 9 February 2009 . dead .
  8. Book: Fornatale, Pete . 2013 . 50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones . registration . . . 167–168 . 978-1408833827.
  9. Interview, Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones . Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones . 1993 . Richards . Keith . Keith Richards . Sandall . Robert . Robert Sandall . Liner notes . . 72438-64682-2-2 . Hollywood, California. "The basic melody and the title were mine...I'd recently had my daughter born, whose name was Angela, and the name was starting to ring around the house. But I'm into writing about my babies. Angie just fitted. I mean, you couldn't sing 'Maureen'....
  10. Book: Richards . Keith . Keith Richards . Fox . James . 2010 . Life . . . 323 . 978-0316034418 . While I was in the [Vevey drug] clinic, Anita was down the road having our daughter, Angela. Once I came out of the usual trauma, I had a guitar with me and I wrote Angie in an afternoon, sitting in bed, because I could finally move my fingers and put them in the right place again...I just went, 'Angie, Angie'. It was not about any particular person; it was a name, like 'ohhh, Diana'. I didn't know Angela was going to be called Angela when I wrote 'Angie'. In those days you didn't know what sex the thing was going to be until it popped out. . registration .
  11. Web site: Zentgraf . Nico . The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones 1962–2008 . 1 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090105155520/http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm . 5 January 2009 . live.
  12. https://www.discogs.com/release/3947233-Womack-Womack-Love-Wars Womack & Womack – Love Wars (accessed on 4 April 2024)
  13. Web site: Stereophonics - Hurry up and Wait .
  14. Web site: Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic . .
  15. Book: Margotin . Philippe . Guesdon . Jean-Michel . The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track . 2016 . . New York . 978-0-316-31774-0 . 407–408.
  16. , director Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  17. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1973-11-24 . 2019-02-25.
  18. Web site: South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1965 - 1989 Songs (A-B). Brian. Currin. www.rock.co.za.
  19. Book: Salaverri, Fernando . Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 . 1st . September 2005 . Fundación Autor-SGAE . Spain . 84-8048-639-2 . es.
  20. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 204.
  21. Web site: CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending October 27, 1973 . 21 October 2016 . dead . https://archive.today/20161021180509/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19731027.html . 21 October 2016 . dmy . . Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  22. Web site: Australian Chart Book . Austchartbook.com.au . 8 October 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305064644/http://www.austchartbook.com.au/ . 5 March 2016 . dmy .
  23. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 8 October 2016.
  24. Web site: Jaaroverzichten – Single 1971 . Single Top 100. Hung Medien . 2 March 2018 . nl.
  25. http://swisscharts.com/charts/jahreshitparade/1973 Swiss Year-End Charts, 1973
  26. "Top Pop Singles" Billboard 29 December 1973: TA-28
  27. Web site: Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1973 . Tropicalglen.com . 29 December 1973 . 8 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140715135835/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1973YESP.html . 15 July 2014 . dead .

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