Miss You (The Rolling Stones song)
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| Single by The Rolling Stones | ||||||||||||
| from the album Some Girls | ||||||||||||
| B-side | "Far Away Eyes" | |||||||||||
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| Recorded | 10 October – 21 December 1977; Pathé Marconi Studios,Paris | |||||||||||
| Genre | Disco | |||||||||||
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| Label | Rolling Stones | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||||||||||
| Producer(s) | The Glimmer Twins | |||||||||||
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"Miss You" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It was released as a single by The Rolling Stones on Rolling Stones Records in May 1978, one month in advance of their album Some Girls, and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. An extended version, called the "Special Disco Version", was released as the band's first dance remix on a 12-inch single.
"Miss You" was written by Mick Jagger jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs, recordings from which appeared on side three of double live album Love You Live (1977). Keith Richards is credited as co-writer as was the case for all Rolling Stones originals written by either partner or in tandem.
Jagger and Ronnie Wood insist that "Miss You" wasn't conceived as a disco song, while Richards said, "...'Miss You' was a damn good disco record; it was calculated to be one." In any case, what was going on in discotheques did make it to the recording. Charlie Watts said, "A lot of those songs like 'Miss You' on 'Some Girls'... were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four-to-the-floor and the Philadelphia-style drumming." For the bass part, Bill Wyman started from Preston's bass guitar on the song demo.Chris Kimsey, who engineered the recording of the song, said Wyman went "...to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out", which Kimsey said "made that song." Jagger sang a good part of the chorus using falsetto "ooh"s often in unison with harmonica, guitar and electric piano.
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