No Questions Asked (song)

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"No Questions Asked"
Promotional single by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Greatest Hits
ReleasedNovember 1988
Recorded1988
Genre Rock
Length4:40
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Stevie Nicks, Kelly Johnston
Producer(s) Fleetwood Mac, Greg Ladanyi
Fleetwood Mac singles chronology
"As Long as You Follow"
(1988)
"No Questions Asked"
(1988)
"Save Me"
(1990)

"No Questions Asked" is a rock song performed by British-American music group Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks wrote the lyrics around an instrumental track created by Kelly Johnston, and the song was produced by Greg Ladanyi. [1] It was the first Fleetwood Mac song along with "As Long as You Follow to feature Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. [2]

Contents

"Paper Doll", another song penned by Nicks, was originally slated to appear on the Greatest Hits compilation, but the band pulled it in favor of "No Questions Asked". [3] The song received airplay on US album oriented rock stations beginning in November 1988 [4] and began to appear on national airplay charts from Radio & Records and Billboard the following month. [5] [6] In the UK, "No Questions Asked" was issued as the B-side to the 1989 re-release of "Hold Me". [7]

Personnel

Fleetwood Mac

Additional Personnel

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [6] 37

References

  1. Davis, Stephen (2017). Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks. New York, NY: St. Martins Press. p. 227. ISBN   9781250032898.
  2. Beck, Marilyn (2 November 1988). "Fleetwood Mac cuts 'Greatest Hits' album". The Herald Times Reporter . p. 2. Retrieved 15 September 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "The Penguin Q&A Sessions: Rick Vito, September 6 - 19, 1999". The Penguin. Archived from the original on 2 July 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. "AOR Tracks" (PDF). Radio & Records . 25 November 1988. p. 70. Retrieved 15 September 2025 via World Radio History.
  5. "AOR Tracks" (PDF). Radio & Records . 9 December 1988. p. 68. Retrieved 15 September 2025 via World Radio History.
  6. 1 2 "Fleetwood Mac Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  7. Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 296. ISBN   9780862415419.