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''City of Angels'' is an album by the Motown soul group The Miracles, released on Motown Records' Tamla label in September 1975. The group's fourth album recorded after replacing lead singer Smokey Robinson with Billy Griffin in 1972, ''City of Angels'' is a concept album, depicting of a man from "Anytown, U.S.A." who follows his estranged girlfriend Charlotte to Los Angeles, where she has gone in hopes of becoming a star. All of the tracks on the album were written by Billy Griffin and Miracles bass singer Pete Moore. Freddie Perren and Moore served as the album's producers. The album's first single, "Love Machine", peaked at number-one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on March 6, 1976, and was a multi-million-selling Platinum single, becoming the most successful single of The Miracles' career. Its success coincided with the rise of the disco craze of the late 1970s. Another song on ''City of Angels'', "Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A.", caused controversy due to addressing the subject of homosexuality: ''"Ain't nobody straight in L.A./It seems that everybody there is gay"'' ==Life imitates art== The album's cover depicted The Miracles' "star" on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, although the group actually did not have such a star back in 1976. However, life eventually did imitate art, as The Miracles ''were'' honored with just such a star in Hollywood on March 20, 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.varley.net/images%20-%202007/The%20Miracles%20Hollywood%20Star.jpg )〕 ''City of Angels'' reached 33 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart in the United States, and peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Black Albums chart. The Miracles' ''City Of Angels'' was also a Platinum album with over one million records sold.〔 The song "Overture" from that album, co-written by Moore and Billy Griffin, was used as the official theme on Radio Monte Carlo in France from 1978 to 1979. While not available on CD in the U.S. until more recently, ''City of Angels'' was available in its entirety on the Motown import release, ''The Miracles - The Essential Collection''. In 2010, Motown released ''City Of Angels'' album on CD in the U.S. for the first time - on Hip-O Select's "Motown Select" website, with the extended 12 inch version of "Love Machine" as a bonus track. Along with a never-before released essay by writer David Nathan it included commentary by Pete Moore and Billy Griffin, the album's composers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City of Angels (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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