"Take a Long Line" | ||||
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Single by The Angels | ||||
from the album Face to Face | ||||
Released | July 1978 | |||
Recorded | Albert Studios | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Length | 3:00 | |||
Label | Albert Productions | |||
Songwriter(s) | Doc Neeson, John Brewster, Rick Brewster | |||
Producer(s) | The Angels, Mark Opitz | |||
The Angels singles chronology | ||||
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"Take a Long Line" is a song by Australian hard rock group the Angels, released in July 1978 as the second single from their second album, Face to Face . The song peaked at number 29 on the Australian Kent Music Report.
In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Take a Long Line" was ranked number 35. [1]
The song was largely written by band member Rick Brewster. In a 2018 interview with his brother and fellow band mate, John Brewster, on ABC Radio 774 in Melbourne, he said that many of the lyrics in the song were inspired by characters his brother had encountered on the streets of Kings Cross in Sydney. [2]
The year of its release (1978), The Angels supported both Meat Loaf and David Bowie on their respective tours of Australia. David Bowie actually asked the band to support him on his tour after hearing the Face to Face album and seeing The Angels live at a show at the Bondi Lifesaver club. [3]
Chart (1978) | Peak position |
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Australian (Kent Music Report) [4] | 29 |
The Angels are an Australian rock band that formed in 1974 in Adelaide as the Keystone Angels with Bernard "Doc" Neeson on lead vocals and bass guitar, John Brewster on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, his brother Rick Brewster on lead guitar and backing vocals, and Peter "Charlie" King on drums. In 1976, King was replaced by Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup on drums, Chris Bailey took over bass duties so Neeson could focus solely on vocals, and they changed their name to just 'the Angels'. Their studio albums that peaked in the Australian top 10 are No Exit (1979), Dark Room (1980), Night Attack (1981), Two Minute Warning (1984), Howling (1986) and Beyond Salvation (1990). Their top 20 singles are "No Secrets" (1980), "Into the Heat" (1981), "We Gotta Get out of This Place" (1987), "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again", "Let the Night Roll On" and "Dogs Are Talking".
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