The Rolling Stones “Goat’s Head Soup”
A few months ago we featured “Foreign Tongues”, the latest release from The Rolling Stones.
This month we go back to 1973, when the Stones Released “Goat’s Head Soup”.
The music history books write that their run of previous albums, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street was one of the greatest run of number 1 albums in a row by any band in the music history. It cemented the Stones and THE number 1 rock’n’roll band in the world.
Needless to say there was much anticipation as to how Goat’s Head Soup would be received when it was released in 1973.
The reception was rather lukewarm. The critics were not convinced that GHS would be held in the same esteem as the previous 3 albums. One critic writing that it was a group of secondary songs interspersed with some tasteful ballads.
Clearly the audience disagreed, delivering the Stones another number 1 album in the UK and the US.
Everyone will remember the album single “Angie”. There was much speculation as to Angie’s identity. Was it David Bowie’s wife Angela, was it Keith Richards daughter Angela or was it the actress Angie Dickinson. Keith Richards has offered 2 conflicting accounts, saying in that it was his daughter and then in a later that it wasn’t anybody at all. He just liked the word as the opening word in the opening line of the song.
Make up your own about whether it fits into the cannon of Stones’ classics and listen to the album in its entirety on 88.0 HEPFM at 10am on Saturday morning.
