Dire Straits - Making Movies - Album

'Making Movies' is the third album by English rock band Dire Straits, released in 1980.

The title of the album comes from a line in the song 'Skateaway' and the unreleased song 'Making Movies'.

Rolling Stone ranked the album number 52 in their survey of the "100 Best Albums of the 80s".

Making Movies was the biggest selling album in Italy in 1981 with one million copies; in Europe the album sold 3.8 million copies.

It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the U.S. and on September 19, 2000 in the United States.

The songs 'Making Movies' and 'Suicide Towers' were recorded during the sessions and were never officially released. They do however appear on bootlegs.

In the U the album made it to number 4 on the Album charts and spent 252 weeks on the Album charts.

Traclisting:
01 - Tunnel of Love
02 - Romeo and Juliet
03 - Skateaway
04 - Expresso Love
05 - Hand in Hand
06 - Solid Rock
07 - Les Boys

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Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick

'Your Latest Trick' is a rock song by Dire Straits that appeared on the studio album 'Brothers in Arms', and also on the live album 'On the Night'.

The saxophone introduction to the song, as Mark Knopfler says on the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, is now widely used when people are trying out saxophones at music shops, just as Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is widely used when trying out guitars. Having one of his songs used in such a way is something that he always dreamt of.

Michael Brecker played the saxophone solo on the original recording, while Chris White played it live on the Brothers in Arms and On Every Street world tours.

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Irish Boy - B-Side 1
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Dire Straits - So Far Away

'So Far Away' is a 1985 rock song by Dire Straits.

It appears on the album Brothers in Arms.

In the UK the single managed to make it to number 20.

It also became the band's fourth top 20 hit on the Billboard charts, peaking at number 19.

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Single Version
Walk Of Life - B-Side

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Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

'Brothers in Arms' is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the last track on the album of the same name. It peaked at number 16 in the UK.

There are actually two studio recorded versions of this song: the album version which is 6:55 seconds, and the shorter version which is 6:05 seconds and features slightly different (and shorter) solos at the beginning and end of the song. The version that appears on Dire Straits' greatest hits album, The Very Best of Dire Straits, is 4:55. The version featured on the live album On the Night contains an extra slide guitar solo and is 8:55.
Mark Knopfler usually played the song on a Gibson Les Paul guitar, rather than his usual Schecter "Stratocaster", and a Les Paul appears in the distinctive promo video, which is in the style of a charcoal drawing, interspersing scenes of the band playing with scenes of war. During Dire Straits' 1992 On Every Street tour, Knopfler used his Pensa Suhr MK1 for this song, like most of the others.

The single was re-released to promote the compilation album, which came out just in time for Christmas 1988, but this re-release was unsuccessful in all territories.

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Single Version
Going Home - Live - B-Side

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Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - Video

Dire Straits - Private Invesigations

'Private Investigations' is a popular song by Dire Straits from their album Love Over Gold. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it reached number 2 in the UK, and is one of their biggest chart successes in the United Kingdom, on a par with 'Walk of Life'. Similarly, the album it came from, Love over Gold, only sold 0.5 million copies in the US, though it was well-received elsewhere.

The song begins with a slow piano riff accompanying an acoustic guitar. After several verses, the song opens up into a slow, bass-driven beat, with an electric guitar coming in at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler's acoustic guitar and Marimba played by Mike Mainieri.

On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "It's just about the Private Investigations... "What have you got at the end of the day" - Nothing more than you started out with..." It is said the song was inspired by author Raymond Chandler.

The riff from the song was used on a BT advert in 1994.

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T-Shirts - B-Side

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