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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. 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").
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.
Concert renditions have been released on the albums
Strippedand
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.
1963: "Come On" / "I Want to Be Loved"
·"Poison Ivy" /
"Fortune Teller"
·"I Wanna Be Your
Man" / "Stoned", 1964: "Not Fade Away" / "Little by Little"
(UK)
·"Not Fade Away" /
"I Wanna Be Your Man" (US)
·"It's All Over
Now" / "Good Times, Bad Times"
·"Tell Me" / "I
Just Want to Make Love to You"
·"Time Is on My
Side" / "Congratulations"
·"Little Red
Rooster" / "Off the Hook"
·"Heart of Stone"
/ "What a Shame", 1965: "What a Shame" / "Heart of Stone"
·"The Last Time" /
"Play with Fire"
·"Play with Fire"
/ "The Last Time"
·"(I Can't Get No)
Satisfaction" / "The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man"
(US)
·"(I Can't Get No)
Satisfaction" / "The Spider and the Fly" (UK)
·"Get Off of My
Cloud" / "I'm Free" (US)
·"Get Off of My
Cloud" / "The Singer Not the Song" (UK)
·"As Tears Go By"
/ "Gotta Get Away", 1966: "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "As Tears
Go By" (UK)
·"19th Nervous
Breakdown" / "Sad Day" (US)
·"Paint It, Black"
/ "Stupid Girl" (US)
·"Paint It, Black"
/ "Long Long While" (UK)
·"Mother's Little
Helper" / "Lady Jane"
·"Lady Jane" /
"Mother's Little Helper"
·"Have You Seen
Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" / "Who's Driving
Your Plane", 1967: "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby
Tuesday"
·"Ruby Tuesday" /
"Let's Spend the Night Together"
·"We Love You" /
"Dandelion"
·"Dandelion" / "We
Love You"
·"In Another Land"
/ "The Lantern"
·"She's a Rainbow"
/ "2000 Light Years from Home", 1968: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" /
"Child of the Moon"
·"Street Fighting
Man" / "No Expectations"
·, 1969: "Honky
Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
1971: "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" / "Let It Rock" (live) (UK)
·"Brown Sugar" /
"Bitch" (US)
·"Wild Horses" /
"Sway"
·"Street Fighting
Man" / "Surprise, Surprise", 1972: "Tumbling Dice" / "Sweet
Black Angel"
·"Happy" / "All
Down the Line", 1973: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" /
"Sad Day"
·"
Angie
" / "Silver Train"
·"Doo Doo Doo Doo
Doo (Heartbreaker)" / "Dancing with Mr. D", 1974: "It's Only
Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" / "Through the Lonely Nights"
·"Ain't Too Proud
to Beg" / "Dance Little Sister", 1975: "I Don't Know Why" /
"Try a Little Harder"
·"Out of Time" /
"Jiving Sister Fanny", 1976: "Fool to Cry" / "Crazy Mama"
·"Hot Stuff" /
"Fool to Cry"
1978: "Miss You" / "Far Away Eyes"
·"Beast of Burden"
/ "When the Whip Comes Down"
·"Respectable" /
"When the Whip Comes Down"
·"Shattered" /
"Everything Is Turning to Gold", 1980: "Emotional Rescue" /
"Down in the Hole"
·"She's So Cold" /
"Send It to Me", 1981: "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" / "If
I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)"
·"Start Me Up" /
"No Use In Crying"
·"Waiting on a
Friend" / "Little T&A"
·"Little T&A"
/ "Waiting on a Friend", 1982: "Hang Fire" / "Neighbours"
·"Going to a
Go-Go" (live) / "Beast of Burden" (live)
·"Time Is on My
Side" (live) / "Twenty Flight Rock" (live), 1983: "Undercover
of the Night" / "All the Way Down", 1984: "She Was Hot" /
"Think I'm Going Mad"
·"Think I'm Going
Mad" / "She Was Hot"
·"Too Tough" /
"Miss You"
·"Brown Sugar" /
"Bitch"
·"Too Much Blood"
/ "Too Much Blood", 1986: "Harlem Shuffle" / "Had It With You"
·"Winning Ugly" /
"Winning Ugly"
·"One Hit (To the
Body)" / "Fight", 1989: "Mixed Emotions" / "Fancy Man Blues"
·"Sad Sad Sad" /
"Sad Sad Sad"
·"Rock and a Hard
Place" / "Cook Cook Blues", 1990: "Almost Hear You Sigh" /
"Break the Spell" (US)
·"Almost Hear You
Sigh" / "Wish I'd Never Met You" (UK)
·"Paint It, Black"
/ "Long Long While"
·"Terrifying" /
"Wish I'd Never Met You", 1991: "Highwire" / "2000 Light Years
from Home" (live)
·"Ruby Tuesday"
(live) / "Play with Fire" (live)
·"Sex Drive" /
"Sex Drive"
1994: "Love Is Strong" / "The Storm"
·"Love Is Strong"
/ "So Young"
·"You Got Me
Rocking" / "Jump On Top of Me"
·"Out of Tears" /
"I'm Gonna Drive" / "So Young"
·"Out of Tears" /
"I'm Gonna Drive" / "Sparks Will Fly", 1995: "Sparks Will Fly"
/ "Sparks Will Fly"
·"I Go Wild" /
(remixes)
·"Like a Rolling
Stone" (live) / "Black Limousine" / "All Down the Line", 1996:
"Wild Horses" (live) / "Live with Me" (live) / "Tumbling Dice"
(live), 1997: "Anybody Seen My Baby?" / (remixes)
·"Flip the Switch"
/ "Flip the Switch", 1998: "Saint of Me" / "Gimme Shelter" /
"Anyway You Look At It"
·"Out of Control"
/ (remixes)
·"Gimme Shelter"
(live) / "Gimme Shelter" (live), 2002: "Don't Stop" / "Miss
You" (remix), 2003: "Sympathy for the Devil" (remix) /
(remixes), 2005: "Streets of Love" / "Rough Justice"
·"Oh No Not You
Again" / "Oh No Not You Again"
·"Rain Fall Down"
/ (remixes), 2006: "Biggest Mistake" / "Dance Pt. 1" (live) /
"Before They Make Me Run", 2007: "Paint It, Black" / "Paint It,
Black"