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It’s also appeared in more than a dozen films and TV shows, including Girl, Interrupted, Jerry Maguire, Modern Family, Charlie’s Angels, The Leftovers and Charlie Wilson’s War. The song has been covered over the years by everyone from Dusty Springfield to Nina Simone, Olivia Newton-John, The Pretenders, and, of course, Newton, who sold more than 1 million copies of her version. “It gave me such a physical chill that I wrote it down… it came so fast after that.” He’s not sure where the line came from, but he recalled watching a black-and-white war movie the night before with his wife Joan and being touched by how “sad and beautiful it was at the same time.”Ĭonnie Francis’ team initially passed “Angel” over because they thought the affair angle of the lyrics was too risqué, but the tune became a hit for Billie Davis in 1967 and then again the next year for Merrilee Rush, whose version is one of the best-known, alongside Newton’s. “That day I was playing chords over and over and humming nonsense melodies when ‘they’ll be no strings to bind my hands’ came out and I had no idea what it meant,” he said of the afternoon in 1967 when the mysterious lyrics to “Angel” popped into his head. Taylor (aka “Wild Thing”) is a stream-of-consciousness kind of guy who looks for the “chill” when he’s working on new tunes. “Even the bad guys have feelings!”Īnd while Miller figured that maybe Newton and the tune’s original author, legendary New York songwriter Chip Taylor, would feel a bit “conflicted” by his repurposing of their best-known work, both tell Billboard they were totally on board. “ makes them feel a lot less generic and more than a little sympathetic… to me anyway,” said Miller. The reason the sweet-and-salty juxtaposition works so well, in Miller’s mind, is not only thanks to its contrast, but also because it isn’t (just) a gesture of wink-wink irony the fact that a carload of bad-ass, gun-toting mercenaries are cranking up the Juice gives you a small window into their souls. My James Taylor albums sat quite comfortably next to my Rush and Aerosmith collections.” “I don’t have the compendium of musical knowledge Rhett, Paul and Ryan do, but I like a good ballad. “Like everything else that happens in the years you first start getting laid, it is indelibly imprinted on my psyche,” he said.
Because he’s “old,” Miller, 50, says not only was he familiar with the early MTV soft-rock staple, he also recalled how formative a role it played during his junior year of high school.
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