Angie (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Angie


Artist = The Rolling Stones
from Album = Goats Head Soup
Released = 20 August 1973
Format = 7"
Recorded = November-December 1972
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:33
Label = Rolling Stones/Virgin Records
Writer = Jagger/Richards
Producer = Jimmy Miller
Last single = "Happy"
(1972)
This single = "Angie"
(1973)
Next single = "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"
(1973)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
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"Angie" is a song by rock and roll band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1973 album "Goats Head Soup".

Recorded in November and December 1972, "Angie" was written primarily by Keith Richards. The song is an acoustic guitar driven ballad which tells of the end of a romance. The song is noted for its poignant lyrics concerning lost love and the grieving involved. Singer Mick Jagger gives a wrenching performance for the recording, while Stones-recording regular Nicky Hopkins plays the song's distinctive piano chords. The strings on the piece (as well as "Winter") were arranged by Nicky Harrison.

Despite being so downbeat (the Stones at the time were not known for their ballads), "Angie" went straight to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reached number five on the UK singles chart.

Questions about the song's origins have never ceased. Despite wide-ranging rumors that "Angie" was written by Jagger about a relationship he had with David Bowie's wife Angela, Jagger denies this. Richards claims to have come up with the title and chord sequence a year before production on the album began. In the liner notes to the compilation disc "", Richards says, "I'd recently had my daughter born, whose name was Angela, and the name was starting to ring around the house. 'Angie' just fitted."

The song is a very popular at Stones live shows and has been performed live often since its introduction to the Stones' canon of work, appearing throughout the 1970s and on every tour since the American Tour 1981. Recordings were captured for release on the albums "Stripped" and "Live Licks". See also "Brussels Affair".

There're, also, two promo videos shot for the song.

Covers

* Tori Amos covered the song on her 1992 hit E.P. "Crucify", and it appeared on various other releases and compilations

* The German party CDU used the song for its election campaign for Angela Merkel, although The Rolling Stones denied giving permission to use the song.

* Irish rock-band Aslan closed their 1999 live album "Made In Dublin : Live from Vicar Street" with a version of this song.

* Chilean rock-band La Ley covered this song on his debut album Doble Opuesto.

* Stereophonics covered this song on their album "Hurry Up and Wait."

References

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4174558.stm Stones' Angie in German poll row - 22 August 2005] from the BBC

External links

* [http://www.rollingstones.com/discog/index.php?v=so&a=1&id=167 Complete Official Lyrics]