When Everything But The Girl released the second single of their ninth album – which was already much more electronic than their usual folky fare – “Missing” failed to excite the masses. But that changed big time when Todd Terry, who was largely responsible for making the genre of House popular outside it’s Chicago origins, remixed the track and it was re-released a year later – even though their record company at that time had dropped them, seeing no future, so there was little to no promotion, just the song’s own merit.

Ben Watt, the male half of the couple, who met and formed the band in 1982 but were very secretive about that the fact they were also a couple in private and finally married in 2009, contracted a rare auto-immune disease, Churg–Strauss syndrome in 1992 and the prospect of potentially having to go on after the death of a loved one certainly did it’s part in writing the tune.

The song became the first single to ever stay in the US charts continuously for more than a year.

They would perform their last show at Montreux in 2000.