Angel (English)

In disguise, I can see it in your eyes...

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information

Title: Angel
Writers: Madonna and Steve Bray
Producers: Nile Rodgers
Album: Like A Virgin (1984)
Edition date: It was the third single from the album Like A Virgin, April 1985 for USA, and September of the same year for the rest of the world
Length of the album version: 3 ' 53''
Credits: ©1984 WB Music Corp./Bleu Disque Music Co. Inc./Webo Girl Pub., Inc. adm. by WB Music Corp./Black Lion Music Inc. ASCAP.

coments

Third single extracted from the Like A Virgin album. Some unlucky facts have made fans consider it one of her worst choices as a single. Sire decided to release it very fast, and was in the charts as the same time as the hit Crazy For You, that was included in the Vision Quest soundtrack. Angel was released with Into The Groove (another song from another film) as the B-side, and this song eclipsed Angel. Sire records didn't even made a video for this song, they just made some edits of previous Madonna images. Many facts that made Angel a failure as a single…
But, surprisingly, it was successful in the charts, reaching #5 in USA and UK (maybe due to its B-side).
Angel is a fast song, with a good and dancing rhythm. It is a love song, but it isn't serious enough to think in the lyrics while you hear it. Even Madonna doesn't sing it with the serious mood she should have (the first thing we hear is her attractive and soft laugh). This mixture of love lyrics and fast and happy music, with was also present in her first album, is part of Madonna's way of making music. Something like "don't take things too seriously".

videoclip

There is a video for this single, but it really is an edit made with extrats from the Like A Virgin, Burning Up, Material Girl and Borderline videos. It isn't interesting at all, and shows how poor was the attention for promoting this single.

collector items

	This is the single cover, reedites in 1995 as a cd-single. It includes the Extended Dance Remix version of Angel and as the B-side, Into The Groove.
	Japanese edition in 7" with a very strange cover.
	Casette Maxi-single from Canada.
	Picture disc for UK, shaped. It includes a base for showing the disc. The B-side of this release is the Alternate Mix versión of Burning Up, very hard to find.
	Japanese edition in different formats: cassette, vinyl 12'' and cd-maxi, containing Material Girl (Extended Dance Remix), Into The Groove (4:40) and Angel (Extended Dance Mix).

This list of collectibles is not complete, it's just an orientative guide of the most important things.

lyric

Angel

Why am I standing on a cloud
Every time you're around
And my sadness disappears
Every time you are near

You must be an angel
I can see it in your eyes
Full of wonder and surprise
And just now I realize

Oooh you're an angel
Oooh you're an angel
Oooh you're an angel
In disguise, I can see it in your eyes

Walking down a crowded avenue
Other faces seem like nothing next to you
And I can't hear the traffic rushing by
Just the pounding of my heart and that's why

You must be an angel
I can see it in your eyes
Full of wonder and surprise
And just now I realize

Oooh you're an angel
Oooh you're an angel

Oooh you're an angel
In disguise, I can see it in your eyes

You're an angel
You're an angel, baby
You're an angel
You must be an angel

Now I believe that dreams come true
'Cause you came when I wished for you
This just can't be coincidence
The only way that this makes sense is that

Oooh you're an angel
Oooh you're an angel
Oooh you're an angel
In disguise, I can see it in your eyes

You're an angel
You're an angel, baby
You're an angel
You must be an angel, baby

Clouds just disappear...

cover

Uses a picture from the photo sessions taken by Herb Ritts (photographer and friend of Madonna) and used in the Virgin Tour program and in her official 1986 calendar.

in the chart

Although its promotion was really awful, Angel had a good behaviour in the charts, reaching #5 in USA and UK and #3 in Japan and Spain. It reached a poor #19 in Canada. This is because the B-side, Into The Groove, wasn't released as a single.

official versions

1. Album Version (3:53)
2. 7" Version / Fade (3:40)
3. Dance Mix Edit (4:57)
4. Extended Dance Mix (6:15)

live

The only chance we had to see Madonna performing Angel live was in her first tour, The Virgin Tour, in the US. The official video release doesn't include this performance.

Angel Directo

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