No Smoke Without a Fire

No Smoke Without a Fire
"No Smoke Without a Fire"
Single by Bad Company
from the album Dangerous Age
B-side "Love Attack"
Released 1989
Format 7", 12"
Genre Rock
Length 4:33
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Brian Howe, Terry Thomas
Producer Bad Company
Bad Company singles chronology
"Shake It Up"
(1988)		 "No Smoke Without a Fire"
(1989)		 "Holy Water"
(1990)

"No Smoke Without a Fire" is a song by British rock group Bad Company, released as the second single from their eighth studio album Dangerous Age.

Despite failing to match the success of the album's first single, "Shake It Up", "No Smoke Without a Fire" was played substantially with "Shake It Up" on rock radio stations at the time of its release, eventually reaching a peak of #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

The song is one of the songs listed on Clear Channel's list of "songs with questionable lyrics" following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Contents

Track listing

7" single

  1. "No Smoke Without a Fire" - 4:33
  2. "Love Attack" - 3:51

12" single

  1. "No Smoke Without a Fire" (LP version) - 4:33
  2. "No Smoke Without a Fire" - 4:33

Charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks[1] 4

References

  1. ^ "Bad Company - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3607/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2011-05-18. 
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