Angie (song)

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"Angie"
Jimmy Miller
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"
Happy
"
(1972)
"Angie"
(1973)
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"
(1973)
Alternative cover
German picture sleeve
Goats Head Soup track listing
10 tracks
Side one
  1. "
    Dancing with Mr. D
    "
  2. "100 Years Ago"
  3. "Coming Down Again"
  4. "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"
  5. "Angie"
Side two
  1. "Silver Train"
  2. "Hide Your Love"
  3. "
    Winter
    "
  4. "Can You Hear the Music?"
  5. "Star Star"

"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

Cash Box said that "Jagger is at his best—slurring words by the dozens to ring out the feeling of every important line."[4] Record World called it a "tender ballad" on which "Mick Jagger's vocal is moving and sensuous."[5]

Released as a single in August 1973, "Angie" went straight to the top of the US

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

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."[12] According to NME, Jagger's contributions to the lyrics referred to his breakup with Marianne Faithfull.[7]

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

.

"Angie" was covered by Welsh rock band Stereophonics in 1999, as the B-side to the single "Hurry Up and Wait".[14] The song was also included on the 2010 deluxe re-issue of their 1999 second studio album Performance and Cocktails.[15]

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:[16]

The Rolling Stones

Additional personnel

Music video

Two music videos were shot to promote the song.[17]

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[39] 2× Platinum 140,000
France (
SNEP)[41]
Gold 700,000[40]
Italy (FIMI)[42]
sales since 2009
Gold 25,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[43] Gold 30,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[44] Silver 250,000^
United States (RIAA)[45] Gold 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  4. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 8 September 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. 8 September 1973. p. 1. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  6. Thomas L. Phillips, Jr.
    p. 20. Retrieved 26 January 2016. Jagger, it was rumored, had earlier written 'Angie' (Goats Head Soup, 1973) for David Bowie's wife, Angela.
  7. ^ a b "Revealed - The Stories Behind The Rolling Stones' Classic Songs: 'Angie'". NME. London. 12 October 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2016. Rumored to be inspired by Angie Bowie, it was actually inspired by Marianne Faithful after her relationship with Jagger collapsed.
  8. Demand Media
    . Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  9. ^ .
  10. ^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Angie". timeisonourside.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  11. ^ Richards, Keith; Sandall, Robert (1993). Interview, Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (Liner notes). Hollywood, California: Virgin Records. 72438-64682-2-2. "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'...
  12. . 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.
  13. ^ Zentgraf, Nico. "The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones 1962–2008". Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
  14. ^ "Stereophonics - Hurry up and Wait".
  15. ^ "Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic.
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  21. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Angie". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
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  32. ^ "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
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  41. ^ "Italian single certifications – The Rolling Stones – Angie" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 8 October 2018. Select "2018" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Angie" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
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