Miss You (Rolling Stones song)

"Miss You"
Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album Some Girls
B-side"Far Away Eyes"
Released
  • 10 May 1978 (US)
  • 19 May 1978 (UK)[1]
Recorded10 October – 21 December 1977[2]
StudioPathé-Marconi, Paris
Genre
Length
  • 4:48 (album version)
  • 3:35 (7-inch)
  • 8:26 (12-inch)
LabelRolling Stones
Songwriter(s)Jagger–Richards
Producer(s)The Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Hot Stuff"
(1976)
"Miss You"
(1978)
"Beast of Burden"
(1978)
Music video
"Miss You" on YouTube
Some Girls track listing

"Miss You" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on Rolling Stones Records in May 1978. It was released as the first single one month in advance of their album Some Girls. "Miss You" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

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.

In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine rated "Miss You" number 498 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, dropping down 2 spots from number 496 in the 2004 version.[8]

  1. ^ "BPI".
  2. ^ "Tim Hinkley at Pathé Marconi studios, 1978". IORR.org. 10 November 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Simon (2010). Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews. Soft Skull Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1593763947. The Rolling Stones did funk and disco with 'Hot Stuff' and 'Miss You' respectively.
  4. ^ Werner, Craig Hansen (2006). A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America. Plume. p. 210. ISBN 0-452-28065-6. By the time the Rolling Stones cashed in with their disco minstrel classic "Miss You" – which comes complete with the obligatory, if ironic, stereotyping of black and Puerto Rican women as objects of sexual taboo
  5. ^ Segretto, Mike (2022). "1978". 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999. Backbeat. pp. 351–352. ISBN 9781493064601.
  6. ^ Janovitz, Bill. "The Rolling Stones – Miss You – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  7. ^ Bennun, David (14 June 2017). "Disco rock – 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  8. ^ "500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 498 – The Rolling Stones, 'Miss You'". Rolling Stone. 11 December 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2014.

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