"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

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. In January 2018, as part of

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's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Take a Long Line" was ranked number 35. 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. The year of its release (1978), The Angels supported both

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and

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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.

Track listing

;AP 11759 # "Take a Long Line" (

Doc Neeson Bernard Patrick "Doc" Neeson OAM (4 January 1947 – 4 June 2014) was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the front man for the hard rock band The Angels from its formation in February 1976 through to 1999. The band then spli ...

, John Brewster, Rick Brewster) - 3:00 # "Love Takes Care" (Doc Neeson, John Brewster, Rick Brewster) - 3:34

Personnel

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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

* Richard Brewster –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

* John Brewster –

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

* Chris Bailey –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

* Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup –

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* The Angels,

Mark Opitz Mark Opitz (born 1952) is an Australian record producer and audio engineer. He started his career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1971. He has produced AC/DC, the Angels, Australian Crawl, Cold Chisel, Divinyls and INXS. He h ...

- Producer

Charts

References

The Angels (Australian band) songs 1978 songs 1978 singles Songs written by Doc Neeson Songs written by John Brewster (musician) Albert Productions singles Song recordings produced by Mark Opitz {{1970s-rock-song-stub