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"Far Away" was a huge success in the U.S. and became the band's fourth top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 8.The song was the second top-10 single from their latest album All the Right Reasons after the leading single of the album, "Photograph", which peaked at number two on the chart.
Dire Straits would play a total of 116 concerts in Europe and North America, the final concert taking place on 21 December 1979 in London. Communiqué was the last album to feature David Knopfler , who left the band over creative differences with his brother during the recording of their third album in August 1980. [ 4 ]
"So Far Away" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, the opening track on their fifth studio album Brothers in Arms (1985). It became the band's fourth top 20 hit, peaking at number 19. The original studio version of the track appeared on the 2005 compilation The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations.
Dire Straits "Wild West End" 1979 "Lady Writer" Communiqué: 1981 "Romeo and Juliet" Lester Bookbinder: Making Movies "Skateaway" "Tunnel of Love" 1982 "Private Investigations" unknown Love over Gold: 1983 "Twisting by the Pool" ExtendedancEPlay: 1985 "So Far Away" Brothers in Arms "Money for Nothing" Steve Barron "Brothers in Arms" Bill Mather ...
The album was released in the US on 20 October 1978. [6] The first single released was "Sultans of Swing" which first broke into the United States top five early in the spring of 1979, becoming a hit a full five months after the album was released there, and then reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart.
"Lady Writer" is a 1979 song by Dire Straits, which appears on the band's second album Communiqué. It was written by the band's lead singer, Mark Knopfler. When asked what the song was about, Knopfler said that he was watching TV one day, and there was a lady writer on the TV.
It is one of only two Dire Straits songs on a studio album not to be solely credited to Knopfler (the other being "The Carousel Waltz", which opens Making Movies), with guest vocalist Sting given a co-writing credit due to the melody of the repeated "I want my MTV" (sung by Sting) at the start echoing the melody of the Police's "Don't Stand So ...
Extendedance Play (stylized as ExtendedancEPlay) is a studio 12" EP by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 14 January 1983 [2] by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.