Rod Stewart - Angel

Top of the Pops November 1972 - cover of Jimi Hendrix track. To see this in colour http://youtu.be/9uwWOpC1tGM.

Angel (Jimi Hendrix song)
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"Angel"
Single by Jimi Hendrix
from the album The Cry Of Love
B-side US Freedom
UK Night Bird Flying
Released April 1971
Recorded July 23, 1970
Genre Psychedelic rock
Label Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor
Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix
Producer Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
(1970) "Angel"
(1971) "Freedom"
(1971)
"Angel" is the name of a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix. It was first released in March 1971 on the posthumous LP The Cry of Love, and in April it was released on a single to promote the LP. In the US the single was backed with "Freedom" and in the UK with "Night Bird Flying". The LP charted, but the single didn't sell well. The B side "Night Bird Flying" was the B side of the final single Hendrix had cut at Sterling Sound with Eddie Kramer, the A side of this single was the final Reprise USA & Canada single release "Dolly Dagger"
The song was included on 1997's South Saturn Delta, a compilation of Hendrix demos, unfinished tracks and alternate mixes.
In 1972, Rod Stewart released his version of this song as a single from his album Never a Dull Moment. While it failed to achieve the major success of its predecessor "You Wear It Well," the song still did well in several markets worldwide. Rod Stewart's version of Angel can also be heard in one of the scenes in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels, but is not included in the film's original motion picture soundtrack album. In the United Kingdom, the song charted as a double A-side with "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me).
This song was also recorded by singer/songwriter and harpist Dee Carstensen in her 1995 studio album release Regarding The Soul. This was the first ever release of this song using harp as primary instrument. The album "The Gil Evans Orchestra Play The Music Of Jimi Hendrix" features Angel rendered heavy on saxophone, as well as other Hendrix pieces.
Some of this song's lyrics were recited at Hendrix's funeral.

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[Butterfly1Blue]

HAPPY 67TH BIRTHDAY ROD!

[NowMyPoundsHaveRunOu]

i thought Bob Dylan wrote this

[Butterfly1Blue]

@NowMyPoundsHaveRunOu - I've double-checked with Wikipedia - Hendrix wrote it.

[theachtungtree]

as much as i'm a stones fan...i feel sorry for this, ron had an amazing chemistry with rod and those faces songs embraced him as another key part of the band....then when he joined the stones he became some backup guitar player with very few soulful stuff to play to, only few..VERY few tunes afterwards but nothing as inspiring as this :(

[Butterfly1Blue]

@theachtungtree - couldn't agree more.

[Butterfly1Blue]

HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY ROD - 10 JANUARY

[silentmidnightsun]

charlies angels :')

[trabongo]

Wonderfull! So beautifull as the Hendrix's original.

[king420420420420]

@Butterfly1Blue great research bro!

[RAMLIA1]

Je suis fan!

[pgciboss]

@theachtungtree You're right as far as it goes BUT he did join 'The Greatest R&R Band in the World". So I ask you which is better, to be a good guitarist in a band destined to fade away over time (break-up etc.) or join the biggest band in the world and play rhythm guitar behind Keith Richards for as long as you want to??

[genatzvalee]

It's not only his voice I love - I'm crazy about his haircut too, it's SO cool!!! Spiky rooster, or hedgehog, or whatever they call it :D Look at him when he sings "Silver wings silhouetted...."!

[jazzermonk]

interesting shoot: conga/glockenspiel/hendrix cutout ...

[MystralGagnant95000]

trop bon,

trop de Rod sur Youtube..

j'peux pas passer mon temps à le regarder..

et la bouche ouverte !!

lol

Merci celles/ceux qui font partager..

et à Rod, of course !!

[legrandmixer]

en todo el mundo la buena musica continuara despues del holocausto.