Badfinger - "Angels Like Us"

Badfinger performs "Angels Like Us" at the Bombay Bicycle Club in Memphis, TN in 1987. The band was Joey Molland, Randy Anderson, Mark Healey, and Jerry Shirley. Camera work by Mike Barnett. Earlier, the band had recorded some demos of this song with Mike Gibbins on drums but it wouldn't see a release until Molland recorded it for his 2001 solo album "This Way Up".

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[fumetti]

Jerry Shirley? From Humble Pie?????

[BadfingerBoogieBarb]

@fumetti

Yup. Jerry Shirley from Humble Pie. Molland and Shirley were also in the band Natural Gas together.

[BadfingerBoogieBarb]

I was a little disapointed with the version on "This Way Up" as well. I think it was a case of having the song for so long and feeling the need to try and do something different with it. This arrangement is the definitive one.

[vannishboy]

My band, Good Question, opened this show. Amazing to see this video.---Van Duren, Memphis

[mrsclaudy]

wow this is the year my son was born

awesome performance thanks!

[grousserr]

Great song, thanks for posting BBB!

[Badfingerbabe777]

Awesome clip, thanks for posting, this is a great song, I also like this version better than the cd, Joey looks like the singer for Cheap Trick in the suit! He was great at the Hippifest this year!!

[rockon1898]

Hey Barb,

What a treat!

I was a good friend of Joey's for many, many years when he lived in California, but haven't heard from him or Kathie for sometime now. I vividly remember this lineup - the best of the post-Tommy ones - playing this song at "Beatlefest" that year in L.A. - and then taking Joey and Jerry out drinking that night. Jerry Shirley still owes me a drink! (I also knew him and Stevie Marriott too, but not as well as Joey)

Would love to see that lineup again - in Phoenix.

[rothr]

Thanks Barb! I was hoping you would have this to post. It's my favorite of all of his solo songs - but only the live versions from around this time period. Such a PERFECT rocker! Am I the only one who thought it could have been a hit? Too bad the studio version on This Way Up can't compete.