ROLLING STONES - Miss You 12" pink vinyl
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This is an unplayed original copy of the Rolling Stones 12" of Miss You/Faraway Eyes pressed in the UK on pink vinyl. It has been in my collection since 1978 (I bought two). It comes un-shrink wrapped just as it did in 1978.
"Miss You" was released in May 1978. It was released as the first single one month in advance of their album Some Girls.
The extended version of "Miss You" is over 8 minutes long and called the "Special Disco Version". It was released as the band's first dance remix on a 12-inch single. "Miss You" became The Rolling Stones' eighth and final number one hit in the United States on its initial release in 1978. It also reached number three in the United Kingdom. The song was originally nearly nine minutes long, but was edited to nearly five minutes for the album version, and to three-and-a-half minutes for the radio 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 the 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, said Wyman went "to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out", which Kimsey said "made that song". Wyman recalled: "When I did the riff for 'Miss You' – which made the song, and every band in the world copied it for the next year: Rod Stewart, all of them – it still said Jagger/Richard. When I wrote the riff for 'Jumping' Jack Flash' it became Jagger/Richard, and that's the way it was. It just became part and parcel of the way the band functioned."
Unlike most of Some Girls, "Miss You" features several studio musicians. In addition to Sugar Blue who, according to Wood, was found by Jagger busking on the streets of Paris, Ian McLagan plays understated Wurlitzer electric piano, and Mel Collins provides the tenor saxophone solo for the instrumental break.
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