Angel (Fleetwood Mac song)

Infobox Single
Name = Angel


Artist = Fleetwood Mac
Album = Tusk
B-side = "Sisters Of The Moon"
Released = 1980 (single), 1979 (album)
Format =
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:54
Label = Reprise
Writer = Stevie Nicks
Producer = Fleetwood Mac,
Richard Dashut and
Ken Caillat
Certification =
Last single = "Think About Me"
(1980)
This single = "Angel"
(1980)
Next single = "Fireflies"
(1981)
Misc = "Angel" is a song written and performed by Stevie Nicks on the Fleetwood Mac album "Tusk". Nicks attributed the song to the story of Rhiannon in the Mabinogion and in particular Arawn, who is the great lord of darkness.

"Rhiannon", written in 1974 by Nicks (whilst still part of Buckingham Nicks, and performed live by them on their solo album tour), and released on 1975's self-titled 'white' "Fleetwood Mac" album, was also a successful single for Fleetwood Mac. However, that song was not based on the Welsh myth but a novel called Triad, by Mary Leader. It was only after "Rhiannon" was written that Nicks became aware of the myth.

"Angel" is also the title of a Fleetwood Mac song written by Bob Welch, which appears on the (pre-Nicks and Buckingham) 1974 album, "Heroes Are Hard to Find".