“Miss You” by The Rolling Stones

"Miss You" came out on Rolling Stones Records in May 1978, a month ahead of Some Girls, and it's the Stones strutting straight onto the disco floor without taking off their leather jackets. Jagger and Richards wrote it, and the groove does all the talking: Charlie Watts locked into a four-on-the-floor thump, Bill Wyman's bass line slinking all over it, and a late-night haze of Sugar Blue's harmonica, Mel Collins' saxophone and Ian McLagan's electric piano curling around Jagger's lonesome croon.

The Glimmer Twins produced, with Chris Kimsey recording and mixing, and the gamble paid off: it topped the Billboard Hot 100 and got to number three in the UK. A stretched-out "Special Disco Version" went out on 12-inch vinyl, the first time the band had tried a dance remix, and Rolling Stone later found room for it on its list of the 500 greatest songs.

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