What connects this song
Credits it shares with other songs, each from a cited source. Tap a number or a name.
Released on EMI, also Karma Police (Radiohead), Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) and Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Part of Don’t Explain, also Aeroplane, You Can’t Get Enough of a Good Thing and Your Mother Should Have Told You
Written by Bjarne Ohlin, also Siren (Never Let You Go) (Divinyls)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Robert Palmer wrote 89 songs on fono
Robert Palmer’s most frequent co-writer is Andy Taylor (7 songs together)
Robert Palmer first appears on fono in 1974, 16 years before this song
Bjarne Ohlin first appears on fono in 1982, 8 years before this song
Credits
All 4 credits
- Written by
- Bjarne Ohlin and Robert Palmer
- Part of
- Don’t Explain
- Released on
- EMI
- Written by
- Bjarne Ohlin and Robert Palmer
- Part of
- Don’t Explain
- Released on
- EMI
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Bjarne Ohlin
Same label: EMI
Same release: Don’t Explain
Same label: EMI
Same release: Don’t Explain
Same label: EMI
Same release: Don’t Explain
Elsewhere
Sources (5)
Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources.
1MusicBrainz Light Years was written by Bjarne Ohlin
2MusicBrainz Light Years was written by Robert Palmer
Light Years was written by Robert Palmer
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Light Years is part of the release Don’t Explain
Light Years is part of the release Don’t Explain
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz EMI is the label of the song Light Years
EMI is the label of the song Light Years
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Light Years was released on 1990-11-05