Missing You (John Waite song)

"Missing You"
Single by John Waite
from the album No Brakes
B-side"For Your Love"
ReleasedJune 1984
Genre
Length3:56
LabelEMI America
Songwriter(s)John Waite, Mark Leonard, Charles Sandford
Producer(s)John Waite, David Thoener, Gary Gersh
John Waite singles chronology
"Going to the Top"
(1982) 		"Missing You"
(1984) 		"Tears"
(1984)
Music video
"Missing You" on YouTube

"Missing You" is a song co-written and recorded by English musician John Waite. It was released in June 1984 as the lead single from his second album, No Brakes (1984). It reached number one on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks and on the Hot 100, as well as number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. "Missing You" was the only record in 1984 to spend only a single week at the top of the Hot 100. The song was nominated for the 1985 Best Pop Vocal Performance Male Grammy Award.

Waite re-recorded the song with country/bluegrass artist Alison Krauss which appeared on her album A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection, and released it to country music radio in 2007. The re-recording peaked at number 34 on Hot Country Songs. The original recording has been featured in the films, Selena (1997) and Warm Bodies (2013),[4] the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and the TV series Miami Vice (episode, "Heart of Darkness", originally aired 28 September 1984),[5] as well as in the comedy sitcom Rules of Engagement, in a scene at the diner where there is a flashback of Timmy's and Russell's best moments together (season 7, episode "A Wee Problem", originally aired on 6 May 2013). It also appears in the film 22 Jump Street (2014) during the montage where main characters Schmidt and Jenko begin to miss each other after going their separate ways following a fight.

The song is mentioned by Sheila Weller as describing O. J. Simpson's obsession with Nicole Brown Simpson and is the inspiration for the title of her book Raging Heart.[6]

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  3. ^ Breihan, Tom (September 2, 2020). "The Number Ones: John Waite's "Missing You". Stereogum. Retrieved July 29, 2023. Waite delivers "Missing You" in a clenched white-soul growl, cutting his heartache with impotent fury.
  4. ^ Vilkomerson, Sara (13 February 2013). "'Missing You': John Waite on his classic single's new life in 'Warm Bodies'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  5. ^ "John Waite". IMDb.
  6. ^ Weller, Sheila (12 June 2014). "How O.J. and Nicole Brown's Friends Coped with Murder in Their Midst". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 26 November 2016.