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- [Also see the song Angie/Anji by Davey Graham.]
"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. Rolling 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. One 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]
Released as a single in August 1973, "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 Jump Back, 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 Rolling Stones have frequently performed the song in concert; it was included in set lists on their 1973, 1975 and 1976 tours, and on every tour since their 1982 European tour.[2] Concert renditions have been released on the albums Stripped and Live Licks. Two music videos were shot to promote the song.
In 2005 the German party CDU used the song for its election campaign for Angela Merkel; the Rolling Stones had not given Merkel permission to use the song.[3]
Covers
- Womack & Womack covered the song on their 1983 debut album Love Wars.
- Chilean rock-band La Ley covered this song on their debut album Doble Opuesto (1990).
- Tori Amos covered the song on her 1992 EP Crucify, and it appeared on various other releases and compilations.
- Jamaican roots reggae singer Horace Andy covered the song along with Ashley Beedle in the Inspiration Information series
- Irish rock band Aslan closed their 1999 concert album Made in Dublin: Live from Vicar Street with a rendition of this song.
- Stereophonics covered this song and released it as a b-side of their 1999 single "Hurry Up and Wait".
- Sammy Kershaw covered the song on Stone Country: Country Artists Perform the Songs of the Rolling Stones (2001).
- Guns N' Roses performed an instrumental piano version of the song as an intro to "The Blues/Street of Dreams" during their Chinese Democracy Tour (2006/2007).
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