This is the signature song of Everything But The Girl, a British duo consisting of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn. They were students at the University of Hull when they met. She was a singer in the pop duo Marine Girls and Ben contributed a photograph to the cover of their LP. They wound up becoming inseparable, forming their own group in 1983 and getting married not long after. The name Everything But The Girl was inspired by an advertising slogan of Turner's Furniture, a popular store in Hull near the university.
Mixmag ranked the song number 21 in its 100 Greatest Dance Singles Of All Time list in 1996. MTV Dance placed "Missing" at #8 in their list of The 100 Biggest 90's Dance Anthems Of All Time in November 2011. This was the first ever single to spend an uninterrupted year (55 weeks in total) on the US chart.
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