Top Ten 1973 Songs: Angie (#10)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86829)
United States
May 22, 2023 10:49am CST
To round out the monthlong countdown of songs that are now 50 years old, I’ll give you my ten favorites from the year 1973. Great songs, a great year, and you’re probably thinking, “wow, those songs are that old?” Not old, TIMELESS! Let’s get the top ten rolling.
#10: Angie - The Rolling Stones
And this song presents one of the other really GREAT things about music back then: the myths!!! For eons and ages and decades it was “common knowledge” that this song was about Angelia Bowie, David Bowie’s then-wife. Uh….no. Just a name they picked. (Although, apparently, a name Keith liked, because that’s what he named his daughter, who was born around the time they recorded the song.)
Mick had someone not named “Angie” in mind: Marianne Faithful, whom he’d been dating for four years.
It doesn’t really matter who “Angie” is, the song is a winner.
Angie
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Recorded by The Rolling Stones
From Goats Head Soup, 1973
You’re beautiful:
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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8 Jun 23
You myth buster you! I liked that story. lol. A very untypical song for the Stones. I find it similar to Wild Horses in tempo a song I like a lot. Anyway, the tune worked hitting #1 in the U.S.
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
9 Jun 23
I love “Wild Horses” so much. In fact, it was #2 on my list of favorite Stones songs, behind “Before They Make Me Run.”
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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10 Jun 23
@FourWalls Graham Parsons and The Flying Burrito Bros. covered this tune as did Susan Boyle. How's that for a dichotomy of musical styles. 
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
23 May 23
You’re about to get three in a row that you won’t know….and probably won’t like! Hang tough, kiddo. 
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
22 May 23
Angie had a great time didn't she?
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
22 May 23
Starts out in a Stones song, ends up in a Helen Reddy song! 
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
23 May 23
I’m not a big fan, but you couldn’t escape their music on the radio in the 70s.
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
23 May 23
My favorite of theirs is “Before They Make Me Run.”
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@Dena91 (17038)
• United States
23 May 23
@FourWalls My brother loves that one by them
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
22 May 23
It’s a gorgeous ballad, by anyone’s standard. To come from the Stones, though…wow!
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 May 23
Every time I heard this song it sounded like Mick was whispering in my ear and my name wasn't Angie, Love the song, Just never wanted to find out what goat's head soup might taste like but it sounded great
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
23 May 23
Something they serve in Louisiana with head cheese, I’m guessing.
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