World dance music classics #5

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Miss You (1978) – The Rolling Stones

Miss You” is a 1978 song by The Rolling Stones, from their album Some Girls. You need the twelve inch version.

The Rolling Stones disco years:

Several of the songs on 1976’s Black and Blue had boasted vague dance influences, and certain songs such as “Hot Stuff” were essentially compromises between Mick Jagger’s growing interest in contemporary dance music and Keith Richard’s obsession with reggae. “Miss You” was the first Rolling Stones single with prominent disco influences however, most noticeably in Charlie Watts‘ thumping, four-on-the-floor drum beat, and in Bill Wyman‘s funky, grooving bass-lines

See previous entries in this series.