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No, this isn't the same John Waite who used to present You And Yours on Radio 4. This is the guy who used to be in the internationally but not locally succesful The Babys, who briefly dallied with the top UK Top 50 in early 1978 with 'Isn't It Time'
More's the pity, because even an episode of You And Yours would have been more interesting than this rather faceless power-ballad, which somehow became so ubiquitous I was surprised it only got to 9 in the charts (it was of course a US Number One). 'Missing You' talks the talk of big emotions, but the formular melody and airbrushed production don't walk the walk. It's rather the sort of thing that gave the 1980s a bad name in my ears. Indeed it's taken me rather a long time to find anything at all to say about it.
And the British public weren't missing him much either: his only other solo Top 75 single was a re-release of this in 1993; he did however make a slight return with the AOR supergroup Bad English, but they weren't totally accurately named because some of them were American.
Available on: 101 Power Ballads
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