“The biggest thing I remember about ‘Missing You’ is that the night before I went down to Let It Rock, which was a clothes store on Melrose Avenue.  I bought a Johnson suit, this black two-piece suit from London that was a beautiful suit. Tiny. I was very thin at the time. And then I went and had all my hair shaved off. I thought, ‘If I’m going to do this, I’m going to go in whole hog, you know. I’m just going to do it flat out European.’

I showed up with a black suit and a crew cut, and it worked. I do everything on instinct, basically, and half of the time it’s a bullseye.”

— John Waite on the music video for Missing You

This video was shot in downtown Los Angeles, near Pershing Square and its popularity on MTV helped to push the song to the top of the US charts.  The song was inspired by Waite’s feelings while he was working and away from his wife.  Myself, I’ll always think about it as being the song playing on the radio while I was driving a white Cadillac across the beach in Vice City.  Unfortunately, I got so into the song that I drove the car straight into the ocean.  That was when I discovered that Tommy Vercetti couldn’t swim.

Enjoy!