Looking for Clues

"Looking for Clues"
Single by Robert Palmer
from the album Clues
B-side
  • "What Do You Care"
  • "Good Care of You"
  • "Woke Up Laughing"
Released31 October 1980 (UK)
November 1980
Genre
Length4:15 (single version)
4:51 (album version)
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)Robert Palmer
Producer(s)Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer singles chronology
"Johnny and Mary"
(1980)
"Looking for Clues"
(1980)
"Not a Second Time"
(1981)
Music video
"Looking for Clues" on YouTube

"Looking for Clues" is a song by English musician Robert Palmer, released in 1980 as the second single from his sixth studio album Clues. Written and produced by Palmer, "Looking for Clues" reached number 33 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100.

A music video was filmed to promote the single. It was one of the videos to be aired on MTV's first day of broadcasting, on 1 August 1981.