Don't Explain (Robert Palmer album)

Track listing

1. "Your Mother Should Have Told You"
2. "Light-Years"
3. "You Can't Get Enough of a Good Thing"
4. "Dreams to Remember"
5. "You're Amazing"
6. "Mess Around"
7. "Happiness"
8. "History"
9. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" with UB40
10. "Housework"
11. "Mercy Mercy Me" / "I Want You"
12. "Don't Explain"
13. "Aeroplane"
14. "People Will Say We're in Love"
15. "Not a Word"
16. "Top 40"
17. "You're So Desirable"
18. "You're My Thrill"

• N.B. The liner notes for the 1st US pressing attribute the final song to Ned Washington & Burton Lane. While they co-wrote a song by that name, the one on Palmer's album is the Clare & Gorney composition made popular by Billie Holiday.

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Personnel

• Robert Palmer – lead and backing vocals, guitar, drums
• Dennis Budimir – guitar
• Alan Darby – guitar
• Eddie Martinez – guitar
• Saverio Porciello – guitar
• Steve Stevens – guitar
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
• Brent Bourgeois – keyboards, backing vocals
• Alan Mansfield – keyboards, drums
• William Bryant – acoustic piano, bass
• Frank Blair – bass
• Guy Pratt – bass
• Dony Wynn – drums, percussion
• Cyro Baptista – percussion
• Pino Pischetola – percussion
• Claudio Pascoli – saxophone
• Chuck Findley – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Demo Morselli – trumpet
• Luka Belak – violin
• Clare Fischer – clarinet, string and horn arrangements, conductor
• Gerald Vinci – concertmaster
• B.J. Nelson – backing vocals
• Pamela Starks – backing vocals
• UB40 – backing vocals

  Production

• Robert Palmer – producer, co-producer
• Teo Macero – producer
• David Harper – executive producer
• Richard Cobble – production coordination
• Arne Frager – engineer
• Pino Pischetola – engineer
• Mike Fraser – mixing
• Eric "ET" Thorngren – mixing
• Henry Marquez – art direction, design
• Timothy Greenfield-Sanders – photography
• David King – stylist