Angie (song)

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Angie is one of the most famous songs by the Rolling Stones . It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and appeared on the 1973 album Goats Head Soup . On October 20, 1973, the single ranked # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Angie sold one million singles in the US , making the record platinum. In the UK, 200,000 singles were confirmed sold, which was enough for a silver record. The single reached number five on the British Singles Chart . With 1.2 million singles sold across Europe, Angie is the Rolling Stones' most successful single in Europe.

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The song consists of a farewell monologue addressed to Angie , in which the singer explains to his beloved why there is no longer any hope for the relationship. He refers several times to previous attempts to find satisfaction or satisfaction in the relationship, only to then ultimately draw the conclusion that this does not seem possible. There is no fulfillment to be found in this way, all dreams would have evaporated, although he still loves them. In addition, they would have no more money in their pockets. He comfortingly points out that it is good to be (still) alive.

Backgrounds and interpretations

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards composed the song during a stay in Switzerland. Again and again there was speculation about which “Angie” could actually be meant. There were speculations that it could be Anita Pallenberg , Keith Richards' then partner, Angela Bowie, David Bowie's first wife , who is said to have a triangular relationship with Jagger and her husband at the time, or Marianne Faithfull , their relationship to Jagger ended up acting in 1969. Richards himself said in the accompanying text of the best-of album Jump Back as follows: “ I'd recently had my daughter born, who's name was Angela, and the name was starting to ring around the house. But I'm into writing about my baby's. Angie just fitted. “( Keith Richards : text accompanying the album Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones ). Jagger confirmed this statement when he stated that Richards came up with the title Angie and he added the rest of the text. In addition, "Angie" is also used as an English code name for cocaine .

reception

Although the commercially successful album was not particularly well received by critics, Angie was called the album's highlight, praising it for the unparalleled, compelling passion in Mick Jagger's voice and the conflict between the traditional notion of romanticism and a rational pragmatism that manifests itself in the lyrics .

Cover versions

  • In 1983 Womack & Womack released a cover version of the song on their album Love Wars .
  • Tori Amos covered Angie on her 1992 EP Crucify .
  • The Stereophonics played the song on their album Hurry Up and Wait .
  • The Irish rock band Aslan released a live album in 1999 on which they covered the song.
  • The Rolling Stones themselves re-recorded Angie on their live albums Stripped and Live Licks .
  • Uwe Schmidt covered Angie under his project LB on the album Pop Artificielle 1998, sung by a vocal synthesizer software.
  • A parody under the title E Hahnsche comes from the doctors in Worms .
  • The German band JBO parodied the song on the album Laut by exaggerating the soulful singing.
  • Jasmine Bonnin : Single A-side Angie , B-side streets of our city ( Streets of London ) , 1973
  • Juliane Werding : Angie (album If you think, you think, then you just think , you think , 1975)
  • In 1975, Mike Krüger published a parody called Go Go .
  • Another parody by Willy Astor is entitled A Ski

Dispute about the use in the election campaign

The CDU used the song in its election campaign for the 2005 federal election as a tribute to its top candidate Angela Merkel . The Rolling Stones forbade the CDU from using their title with regard to their copyrights, while the CDU appealed to pay corresponding GEMA fees.

An SPD support organization propagated a German version of Angie to refer to lines like “Angie, Angie, you can't say we never tried”.

literature

  • Michael Behrendt: "I don't like Mondays". The 66 biggest song misunderstandings. Darmstadt 2017. pp. 28–30.
  • The Rolling Stones. Songbook. 155 songs [1963–1977] with sheet music. German by Teja Schwaner, Jörg Fauser and Carl Weissner . With 75 alternative translations by Helmut Salzinger . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 292 f., 799-801 and 947.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolling Stones Discography and Fact Sheet
  2. ↑ a b Certified Sales Figures
  3. ↑ Charts of Stone - US and UK singles hits - Rolling Stones
  4. ^ Rolling Stones: Everything is turning to gold
  5. ↑ Lyrics ( Memento from May 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on rollingstones.com
  6. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr1/bw/musik/artikel-rolling-stones-criss-cross-100.html
  7. ↑ Biography for Anita Pattberg on imdb.com
  8. ↑ Dancin 'in the sheets on snopes.com
  9. ↑ a b Angie by The Rolling Stones on songfacts.com
  10. ↑ Text accompanying the album Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones
  11. ^ Cocaine in the Drug Slang Dictionary
  12. ↑ biography at allmusic.com
  13. ↑ Review ( memento of April 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at billboard.com
  14. ^ Album description from rollingstone.com
  15. ↑ CDU must Stones song Angie play on heise.de
  16. ↑ Handelsblatt: CDU should no longer play "Angie"