Released in June 1984 as the lead single from Waite's second solo album, No Brakes, the track skyrocketed to #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks charts, going on to be nominated for the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
"Well, there's a message in the wire / And I'm sending you this signal tonight / You don't know / How desperate I've become / And it looks like I'm losing this fight"
"As John Waite once said, his style is 'Heathcliff with a Marshall stack,'" Sheffield wrote. "In the post-'Billie Jean' era, songs all had to have long, long, long fadeouts — there was no concept that you could repeat the title too many times al coda. But 'Missing You' is one where you hang on the end, hoping you might get a late-breaking glimmer of hope. (Any DJ who fades it out before that last 'oh nooo' is a failure at life.) The most devastating moment: when he rips into the words 'heartbreak overload.'"
John Waite knew 'Missing You' would be a hit right away
“I was married at the time, and I’d been away from home maybe two months,” he said, adding, “And I must have made it up on the spot. I suppose it was about denial, trying to be tough. When I sang the song, I stopped. I stepped back from the mic. I couldn’t speak. I choked. It was so emotional. I knew what it was. I knew it was number one. It was that good, and it had come out of left field. It was a magical experience.”
"It's so weird to have someone sing your melody and lyrics that you admire that much. She's white hot," Waite said of Turner.
All these years later, Waite's original version of "Missing You" is still the most beloved.
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