"I Missed Again" is a song from Phil Collins's debut solo album, Face Value. This song is the seventh song on the CD and the first song on the second side on the record. The song features a tenor sax solo from British jazz musician Ronnie Scott.
Video I Missed Again
Background
Like many of the songs on Face Value, "I Missed Again" is about Collins's anger and frustration about his first wife leaving him. The original demo was entitled "I Miss You, Babe", with sadder lyrics. He re-wrote the lyric, gave the song a different tempo, and re-titled it "I Missed Again" in an effort to make it lighthearted instead of sad. The demo version is the b-side for the single "If Leaving Me Is Easy".
Maps I Missed Again
In other media
The song's music video features Collins on a white background singing and miming the various instruments. It was released on VHS in 1983. which received a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form.
The song was featured in a late 1980s promotional commercial, which featured bloopers, by the National Basketball Association. It was also used in the early 1990s by the BBC in a montage of snooker players missing shots.
Chart performance
In the U.S, "I Missed Again" was the first single from Face Value. It peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1981. It reached No. 14 in the UK.
Credits
- "I Missed Again"
- Phil Collins - piano, vocals, drums, Prophet 5
- John Giblin - bass
- Daryl Stuermer - guitar
- The Phenix Horns:
- Don Myrick - tenor sax
- Louis Satterfield - trombone
- Rahmlee Michael Davis - trumpet
- Michael Harris - trumpet
- Ronnie Scott - tenor sax solo
- L. Shankar - violins
- "I'm Not Moving"
- Phil Collins - vocals, drums, percussion, piano, Prophet 5, Roland VP-330 vocoder
- John Giblin - bass
- Gavin Cochrane - photography
References
External links
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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