MISSING YOU - JOHN WAITE - 1984

NEWS

• Bernie Goetz uses 4 muggers on a NYC subway train for target practice.

• Winter Olympics were in Sarajevo – The summer in Los Angles. The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California

• NASA gets a new space shuttle called “Discovery”

• The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolls off the assembly line.

• US Bell System is broken up.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “The Terminator” “Amadeus” and “Ghostbusters”.  

• T.V: “Miami Vice” and “The Cosby show.”  

• “Where’s the beef?” Wendy’s ad campaign that became part of our vocabulary.

• The new Apple McIntosh computer debuts.

• Guess Jeans were also a hot “must have”.  

• Donald Duck turned 50.

 

DEAD

• Indira Gandhi is assassinated.

• Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan)

• Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

• Richard Burton

 

#1@1

• This is the lead single from the album No Brakes.

• According to sources, Waite wrote this song about an ex-girlfriend in order to help him get over the hurt he was feeling about their break up.

• John Waite was lead vocalist for The Babys and Bad English and as  a solo artist, he had several international hits.

• John Waite and  “Missing You” your #1@1 from September 1984