Rolling Stones ~ Miss You 1978 Disco Purrfection Version

The Rolling Stones are one of the greatest bands ever to emerge from the UK and they join The Beatles as one of the most influential bands ever. They burst onto the scene as the bad boys of rock with an exciting guitar driven song (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction a #1 pop hit in 1965 and have pretty much been publicly visible since then.

They racked up 41 Top 40 hits up to 1989 and have gone through some fallow periods to be written off and then they come back in spectacular fashion. "Miss You" became their 8th #1 single and they did it with song that incorporated the disco beat and a guitar riff that kept the respect of rock and rollers and had everyone dancing along.

Mick kept his ear to radio and was one of the first rockers to acknowledge the appeal of disco championing Shirley & Company's "Shame Shame Shame" that they actually considered recording until Jagger wrote "Hot Stuff" (not the Donna Summer song) that was inspired by the Shirley & Company hit.

"Miss You" was written after Jagger was jamming with Billy Preston in the studio and it was not conceived as a disco song. However, the members were aware of what was being played in the clubs and they incorporated that into the song with drummer Charlie Watts quoting "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."

Bill Wyman tried working with the bass pattern that Preston had created during the Jagger jam session and visited many disco clubs to see how the bass was being used and finally discovered a riff that made the song and found that his creation was copied, most notably by Rod Stewart on "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy".

I finally figured out how to complete this remix and hope you enjoy this extra long version of "Miss You".