Fact #140943
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Short story:
The Rolling Stones release a new single, Miss You, on Rolling Stones Records in the UK.
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Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : Miss You was a damn good disco record; it was calculated to be one.
Charlie Watts (drummer, Rolling Stones) : 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 (bassist, Rolling Stones) : The idea for those bass lines came from Billy Preston. We'd cut a rough demo a year or so earlier after a recording session. I'd already gone home, and Billy picked up my old bass when they started running through that song. He started doing that bit because it seemed to be the style of his left hand. So when we finally came to do the tune, the boys said, Why don't you work around Billy's idea? So I listened to it once and heard that basic run and took it from there. It took some changing and polishing, but the basic idea was Billy’s.
John Lennon : I think Mick Jagger took (Lennon's song) Bless You and turned it into Miss You ... The engineer kept wanting me to speed that up. He said, 'This is a hit song if you'd just do it fast.' He was right. 'Cause as 'Miss You' it turned into a hit. I like Mick's record better. I have no ill feelings about it. I think it's a great Stones track, and I really love it. But I do hear that lick in it.
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Charlie Watts (drummer, Rolling Stones) : 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 (bassist, Rolling Stones) : The idea for those bass lines came from Billy Preston. We'd cut a rough demo a year or so earlier after a recording session. I'd already gone home, and Billy picked up my old bass when they started running through that song. He started doing that bit because it seemed to be the style of his left hand. So when we finally came to do the tune, the boys said, Why don't you work around Billy's idea? So I listened to it once and heard that basic run and took it from there. It took some changing and polishing, but the basic idea was Billy’s.
John Lennon : I think Mick Jagger took (Lennon's song) Bless You and turned it into Miss You ... The engineer kept wanting me to speed that up. He said, 'This is a hit song if you'd just do it fast.' He was right. 'Cause as 'Miss You' it turned into a hit. I like Mick's record better. I have no ill feelings about it. I think it's a great Stones track, and I really love it. But I do hear that lick in it.