No Son of Mine

"No Son of Mine"
Single by Genesis
from the album We Can't Dance
B-side"Living Forever"
Released21 October 1991 (1991-10-21)[1]
StudioThe Farm (Surrey, England)
Length
  • 4:41 (radio edit)
  • 6:41 (album version)
  • 5:44 (new edit – 1999)
Label
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)Phil Collins
Producer(s)
Genesis singles chronology
"Throwing It All Away"
(1987)
"No Son of Mine"
(1991)
"I Can't Dance"
(1991)

"No Son of Mine" is a song by British rock group Genesis, released in October 1991 by Atlantic and Virgin as the lead single from their 14th album, We Can't Dance (1991). The song, written by Phil Collins and composed by him with Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the band's first not to enter the top 10 since 1984's "Taking It All Too Hard"). It was also a top-10 hit in several European countries and peaked atop Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart for five weeks.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 19 October 1991. p. 19. Retrieved 19 June 2021.