I Don't Want to Know
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| Single by Fleetwood Mac | ||||||||||||
| from the album Rumours | ||||||||||||
| A-side | "Oh Daddy" (Japan only) | |||||||||||
| Released | 1978 | |||||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Stevie Nicks | |||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat | |||||||||||
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| 11 tracks |
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"I Don't Want to Know" is a song written by Stevie Nicks that was first released by Fleetwood Mac on their 1977 album Rumours. It was also released as a single in Japan with "Oh Daddy." Artists covering "I Don't Want to Know" include the Goo Goo Dolls. The song was featured in an episode of Glee.
Nicks wrote "I Don't Want to Know" much earlier than the Rumours sessions but rather when she and Lindsey Buckingham were performing as a rock duo Buckingham Nicks prior to joining Fleetwood Mac. The other members of Fleetwood Mac decided to use the song as a replacement for a song Nicks had written for Rumours, "Silver Springs," when they found that "Silver Springs" would not fit on the album. The other four band members made a recording of the song without Nicks late in the Rumours recording sessions. Buckingham was able to sing Nicks' lead vocal on this version as well as the harmony vocals because he knew the song from their Buckingham Nicks days. Drummer Mick Fleetwood then broke the news to Nicks that they decided that they needed to replace "Silver Springs" with "I Don't Want to Know" and wanted her to re-record her vocal part over the one Buckingham recorded for the song. Nicks was originally very angry and did not want to cooperate with recording "I Don't Want to Know" for the album, but ultimately relented because otherwise only two songs she wrote would be on the album.
Nicks later stated that if "Silver Springs" had to be replaced, she was glad that "I Don't Want to Know" was used, since she likes the song. She particularly noted the Everly Brothers-like harmonies in her vocals with Buckingham.
In 2013, the song was used in a Saturday Night Live sketch, "Diner Divorce". The divorcing couple's intense arguments would end whenever the song played.
"I Don't Want to Know" has a country music flavor. It is an uptempo song, which recording engineer Ken Caillat describes as "3:16 of high impact energy." Fleetwood Mac biographer Cath Carrolll describes the opening of the song as being "unprepossessing" and "almost lumpen." However, she claims this has a purpose, as it makes it even more powerful and energetic when the main part of the song kicks in.
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