ÁNGELES FOSTER & MICK, WITH NO LOVIN' IN OUR SOULS

Today, The Grandma has been listening to some music, and she has chosen Angie, the song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

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, was played on the album by Nicky Hopkins, a Rolling Stones recording-session regular.

The strings on the piece (as well as on another song, Winter) were arranged by Nicky Harrison. An 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).

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

Released as a single in August 1973, Angie went straight to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 5 on the 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 David Bowie's first wife Angela, Keith Richards' newborn daughter Dandelion Angela, the actress Angie Dickinson, and others. 

In 1993, in an interview for the liner notes to the Rolling Stones' compilation album Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones, Richards said that the title was inspired by his baby daughter.

However, in his 2010 memoir 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. According to NME, Jagger's contributions to the lyrics referred to his breakup with Marianne Faithfull.

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 1973 Brussels Affair (using electric guitars with Mick Taylor soloing) and Live at the L.A. Forum 1975 (played by Keith Richards and Ron Wood acoustically). It has been a touring staple since their 1982 European Tour. Concert renditions were released on the albums Stripped, Live Licks and The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon.

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Angie
Ain't it time we said goodbye
With no lovin' in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
Angie, I still love you baby
Everywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
Angie, Angie ain't good to be alive
Angie, Angie, we can't say we never tried

Mick Jagger

THE ROLLING STONES & THE FOSTERS, 'AS TEARS GO BY'

Today, The Fosters and The Grandma have met The Rolling Stones, one of the best rock bands of all time, in Hyde Park.

Before this meeting, the family has practised some English grammar with Modal Verbs (Must/Mustn't), Object Pronouns and Let's.

Something has happened between Mick and Ángeles Foster, something very lovely and nice that can finish in the beginning of a great friendship or something more serious as tears go by.

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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era.

In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader of the band.

After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger-Richards partnership became the band's primary songwriting and creative force; this alienated Jones, who developed a drug addiction that by 1968 interfered with his ability to contribute meaningfully.

Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud (both 1965), and Paint It Black (1966) became international number-one hits. Aftermath (1966), their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums.

In 1967, they had the double-sided hit Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request.

By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968) and Honky Tonk Women (1969), and albums Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man, and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring You Can't Always Get What You Want and Gimme Shelter.

Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as the greatest rock and roll band in the world.  

Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded Brown Sugar and Wild Horses and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. It was followed by Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring Tumbling Dice and Happy and Goats Head Soup (1973), featuring Angie.

Taylor left the band at the end of 1974, and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. The band released Some Girls in 1978, featuring Miss You, and Tattoo You in 1981, featuring Start Me Up.

Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994). Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007 they had recorded the all-time highest-grossing concert tour three times, and they were the highest-earning live act of 2021.

Following Wyman's departure in 1993, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones becoming their regular bassist, and then as a three-piece core following Watts' death in 2021, with Steve Jordan becoming their regular drummer. Hackney Diamonds, the band's first new album of original material in 18 years, was released in October 2023, becoming their fourteenth UK number-one album.

The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of 200 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They have won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.  

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. 

Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked them as one of the greatest artists of all time.

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Lose your dreams

and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger