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"Angel" is a song by Jamaican reggae artist Shaggy featuring additional vocals from Barbadian singer Rayvon. Sampling the 1973 song "The Joker" by American rock band Steve Miller Band and interpolating the 1967 song "Angel of the Morning" written by Chip Taylor, it was released to radio on 9 January 2001 as the follow-up to Shaggy's international number-one hit, "It Wasn't Me".
In 2007, Aerosmith would perform a re-recording of the song, among some of their other songs, for the game Guitar Hero: Aerosmith as the master track was missing during the game's development. [9] In 2018, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [10] On November 29, 2023, the song surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. [11]
"Angel" is a power ballad [2] [3] [4] by American rock band Aerosmith. It was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and professional songwriting collaborator Desmond Child . It was released in 1988 as the third single from the band's 1987 album, Permanent Vacation .
The song was an early feature of Aerosmith's concerts and a frequent show closer, including for their first gig in 1970. [17] Notable for its start/stop groove, the song became a core part of the band's live set for a time, and still occasionally ended concerts late in their career.
In 2000, Shaggy released the album Hot Shot, which was certified 6× Platinum in the United States. The album featured the singles " It Wasn't Me " and " Angel ", the latter of which was built around two song samples – Merrilee Rush 's 1968 hit " Angel of the Morning " (which was remade in 1981 by Juice Newton ), and The Steve Miller Band 's ...
Aerosmith is the debut studio album by the American rock band Aerosmith, released on January 5, 1973, by Columbia Records. [4] "Dream On", originally released as a single in 1973, became an American top ten hit when re-released on 27 December 1975. [5] The album peaked at number 21 on the US Billboard 200 album chart in 1976. [6]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
"Somebody" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith. It is the B-side to their debut single, "Dream On", released from their 1973 debut studio album, Aerosmith.Written by lead singer Steven Tyler and his friend Steven Emspak and released in June 1973, its A-side peaked at number 59 nationally but was a major success in the band's home city of Boston, where it was the number 1 single of the ...