Angel (Fleetwood Mac song)

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"Angel"
Single by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Tusk
B-side "Sisters Of The Moon"
Released 1980 (single), 1979 (album)
Recorded 1979
Genre Rock
Length 4:54
Label Reprise
Writer(s) Stevie Nicks
Producer Fleetwood Mac,
Richard Dashut and
Ken Caillat
Fleetwood Mac singles chronology
"Think About Me"
(1980)
"Angel"
(1980)
"Fireflies"
(1981)

"Angel" is a song written and performed by Stevie Nicks on the Fleetwood Mac album Tusk. Nicks attributed the song to the story of Rhiannon in the Mabinogion and in particular Arawn, who is the great lord of darkness.[1]

"Rhiannon", written in 1974 by Nicks (while still part of Buckingham Nicks, and performed live by them on their solo album tour), and released on 1975's self-titled 'white' Fleetwood Mac album, was also a successful single for Fleetwood Mac. However, that song was not based on the Welsh myth but a novel called Triad, by Mary Leader. It was only after "Rhiannon" was written that Nicks became aware of the myth.[citation needed]

"Angel" is also the title of a Fleetwood Mac song written by Bob Welch, which appears on the (pre-Nicks and Buckingham) 1974 album, Heroes Are Hard to Find.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Stevie Nicks on Angel". Inherownwords.com. http://www.inherownwords.com/angel.htm. Retrieved 2012-01-04. 


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