The Angels honoured with mural and laneway in Adelaide CBD
The Angels Lane and accompanying mural were officially unveiled on Monday between TAFE SA's city west campus and Hindley Street Music Hall.
Guitarist John Brewster said the band felt proud to make a permanent mark in the city that had shaped its formative years.
"We've been around for a while and to have our band, our history, revisited in such an incredible way … we're very excited," he said.
"Starting the beginnings of The Angels here in this town and moving to Sydney in '76, that whole experience was very memorable.
"It just feels incredible. It's just such an honour and you know, we're all very proud."
The band's classic 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again' came in at number 12 on last month's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.
Brewster said the band's first single, written by the late Doc Neeson, was "about somebody who passed away".
He said he was surprised the song made it into the Hottest 100 list.
"It wasn't a very big deal at the time but it seems to have become a big deal — that was incredible," Brewster said.
For many Australians, the song is often accompanied by profanity-laden chant.
"It's just ironic that the response that's happened, which is exactly in rhythm with my rhythm guitar, it's Australian humour and I just think it's fantastic, it's a larrikin Australian," he said.
"It wouldn't happen in America."
Formed in Adelaide in the 1970s, the band was inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame in 1998.
Band members old and new gathered at the opening today, but with the notable absence of bass player Chris Bailey, who died of throat cancer in 2013, and lead singer Bernard "Doc" Neeson who died from a brain tumour in 2014.
Brewster performs with fellow founding member and brother Rick, his sons Sam and Tom, and now-frontman Nick Norton.
"Fifty years [anniversary] last year and this is year one, this is year one of the next chapter," he said.
In line with Adelaide's 10th anniversary as UNESCO City of Music, Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith said the transformation of the laneway recognised The Angels' legacy.
"This is special because The Angels are not just iconic, they actually produced an anthem for the whole of Australia," she said.
"It is a really significant day for us because we'd been able to celebrate, commemorate and actually say thank you to a band that have made us all really happy."
The Adelaide City Council assigned The Angels Lane to a private road off Gawler Place in 2019, but council documents showed building owners did not endorse the installation of public artwork and commemorative plaques.
The alternate location near Morphett Street was selected last year, according to council documents.
The band is among several Australian acts to have an Adelaide laneway named in their honour.
Cold Chisel Lane was memorialised in 2021 near where Jimmy Barnes first joined the band almost 50 years earlier.
No Fixed Address, Sia Furler and Paul Kelly have also had lanes named after them.
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