The Angel (song) The Angel (song) "The Angel" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." in 1973. It was also released as the B-side to Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light" single. The song was part of the demo that Springsteen recorded for John Hammond of CBS Records in advance of getting his first recording contract. At the time "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." was released, Springsteen considered it his most sophisticated song. It has had very few live performances. The song is one of the slower tracks on "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", played on piano.
Martin Asbury Martin Asbury Martin Asbury is a British comic and storyboard artist, best known for drawing the "Garth" strip in the "Daily Mirror" from 1976 to 1997, and for his colour TV adaptations in "Look-in". Asbury was educated at Merchant Taylors School and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, and started work in strip cartoons, including assisting Dan Barry on "Flash Gordon" in Austria. After a period designing greetings cards, he got work at D. C. Thomson, drawing "Secret of the Sheridan Sisters" for "Bunty" and "Soldiers of the Jet Age" and "The Crimson Claw" for "Hotspur", before moving to