Another band that had everything going for them but didn’t quite reach the heights or expectations. Very clever marketing by Casablanca who had Kiss as the evil and saw Angel as the exact opposite, dressing them all in white. I loved the pomp of the first album and The Tower is a killer opening track to that and this album as well. After that however, they were just another rock n’ roll band even venturing into pop. I mean it worked for Kiss right?
Angel live though, was another thing altogether as they were a great live band. If you were only going to have one Angel album in your collection it would have to be this. Rather annoyingly though Side 1 is paired with Side 4, and Side 3 with 2. My favourite tracks are the Tower and a great version of Mott The Hoople’s All The Young Dudes.
8/10 from The Grooveman.
