"I'll Be Missing You" is a hit Grammy Award-winning single recorded by Puff Daddy, Faith Evans and 112, in memory of fellow Bad Boy Records artist Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G" Wallace who was murdered on March 9, 1997. Released as the second single from Puff Daddy and the Family's No Way Out album, "I'll Be Missing You" contains an interpolation of the song "Every Breath You Take" by The Police from 1983. With worldwide sales likely over 7 million, including shipments of three million copies in the United States and over one million in Germany and in the United Kingdom each, the single has become one of the best-selling singles of all time.
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“In Vietnam, some of us lost control of our lives. I want my life back. I almost feel like I’ve been missing in action for twenty-two years.”
—Wanda Sparks, U.S. nurse. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 72 (November 7, 1993)