Rolling Stones - Angie - “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. The song is credited, as most Rolling Stones songs are, to both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. “Angie” was recorded in November and December 1972 and is an acoustic guitar-driven ballad characterizing the end of a romance. The song’s distinctive piano accompaniment, written by Richards, w

The Rolling Stones pushed for Angie to be the lead single release on Goats Head Soup but Atlantic - the distributor of Rolling Stones Records, wasn’t on the same page at first. “Atlantic did not want to take Angie as the single off Goats Head - they really wanted another Brown Sugar, rather than a ballad - and there were some heated arguments before we all agreed on that choice.” - Marshall Chess, President Rolling Stones Records Angie went straight to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and rea