Sold Date: April 30, 2021
Start Date: March 30, 2021
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This listing is for a copy of The Rolling Stones Pink Vinyl 12" Single 'Miss You' backed with "Faraway Eyes"

Rolling Stones Records 1978 UK

Vinyl Condition: Excellent, visually has no imperfections, the disc has never been played

Jacket Condition: Near Mint, slight crease in corner, one copy has a 1/2" section of vinyl wear on the bottom edge (see photo)

Original owner.  The discs were shipped from the manufacturer without inner sleeves.  Seller will remove the disc from the cover and ship it in a white paper sleeve.

Note: Track B is displayed as "Far Away Eyes" on rear sleeve, but as "Faraway Eyes" on label.

Per Wikipedia:

"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".  It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart. 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, 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 'Jumpin' 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."

Jagger sang a good part of the chorus using falsetto "ooh"s often in unison with harmonica, guitar and electric piano.

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.

The 12" version of the song runs over eight minutes and features additional instrumentation and solos, particularly on guitar. It was remixed by Bob Clearmountain, then an up-and-coming mixer and engineer. This song, the first edit the Stones did for a 12" single, also contains tape repeats and an additional set of lyrics in the second verse, after the line "Hey, let's go mess and fool around you know, like we used to." 

"Miss You" became the Rolling Stones' eighth and final number one hit in the United States on its initial release in 1978. It hit the top on 5 August 1978, ending the seven-week reign of "" by . 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. In order to properly edit the radio single without audible bumps and glitches, a separate mix was constructed and then edited for continuity. The  of the single was another album track, "", a tongue-in-cheek  tune sung by Jagger in a pronounced drawl.

In 2010,  magazine rated "Miss You" number 498 in its list of .

Tracklist

A          Miss You   8:26

B          Faraway Eyes  

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