Miss You
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"Miss You" is a 1978 hit song by The Rolling Stones, from their album Some Girls. It was written by Mick Jagger while jamming with Billy Preston during rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs (yielding Side Three of the Love You Live album). Although Keith Richards is credited for co-writing, Jagger is generally regarded as the principal composer.
Several of the songs on 1976's Black and Blue had boasted vague dance influences, and certain songs such as "Hot Stuff" were essentially compromises between Mick Jagger's growing interest in contemporary dance music and Keith Richard's obsession with reggae. "Miss You" was the first Rolling Stones single with prominent disco influences however, most noticeably in Charlie Watts' thumping, 'four-on-the-floor' drum beat, and in Bill Wyman's funky, grooving bass-lines, which provide another riff in addition to the main melody. That melody, sung in playful falsetto by Jagger, or else intoned by a chorus of dreamy, borderline-campy backup singers, forms the principal hook used throughout the track, often underlined by Sugar Blue's harmonica lines and incisive solos. Unlike most of the Stones songs on Some Girls, "Miss You" features several studio musicians. In addition to Sugar Blue, Ian McLagan supplies electric piano, which fits into the overall groove of the song to the point that it is barely audible, and Mel Collins provides the glitzy saxophone solos heard during the instrumental break. "Miss You" would be one of the last truly huge Stones singles, becoming their eighth number-one hit in the U.S. on its initial release in 1978.
The song was originally nearly nine minutes long (this uncut version appeared as a 12" disco single), but ended up being edited to four-and-a-half minutes for the album version, and a further-edited three-and-a-half minutes for the radio single.
The B-side of the single was another album track, "Faraway Eyes", a light-hearted country and western tune sung by Jagger in a pronounced drawl.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine rated "Miss You" number 496 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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