“Take A Long Line” by The Angels

"Take a Long Line" was the second single off Face to Face, the Angels' second album, hitting the shops in 1978 on Albert Productions, and it's Australian hard rock with its collar up and the streetlights buzzing. John Brewster, Rick Brewster and Doc Neeson share the credit, though Rick did most of the writing, and in a 2018 radio interview the Brewster brothers traced much of the lyric back to characters one of them had run into on the streets of Sydney's Kings Cross. It climbed to 29 on the Kent Music Report.

That same year the band opened Australian tours for Meat Loaf and for David Bowie, who asked for them himself after hearing Face to Face and catching them live at the Bondi Lifesaver. In 2018 Triple M put it in the Ozzest 100, the station's rundown of the most Australian songs of all time.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.