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Telegraph Road is a major north-south 70-mile (110 km) thoroughfare in Michigan, and Mark Knopfler was inspired to write the song while riding in the front of the tour bus, which made the journey down Telegraph Road. At the same time, Knopfler was reading the novel Growth of the Soil by the Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and ...
Love over Gold. Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 24 September 1982 [3] by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album featured two singles: " Private Investigations," which reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and " Industrial Disease ...
The Comfort and Joy soundtrack was released as a three-song 12" vinyl record in 1984. It has never been released in CD format, but the songs were issued on CD as b-sides of two CD singles promoting the Screenplaying album (which doesn't include any of the Comfort and Joy tracks). [2] ". Comfort" was the b-side of the 1993 "Going Home" CD single ...
Love over Gold (song) " Love over Gold " is a song by British rock band Dire Straits. It is the fourth track and title track from the band's 1982 album. [3] A shorter live version of the song, taken from the album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, was released as a single. [4]
Money for Nothing is a greatest hits album by British rock band Dire Straits released on 14 October 1988, [4] featuring highlights from the band's first five albums. The vinyl edition omits the song "Telegraph Road" and has a different running order.
The song was the fifth song to be released as a single, and the final single overall released by the band. The single was only released in France and Germany. A live rendition appeared towards the end of the On the Night album and DVD. [2] [3] Mark Knopfler told in interview for Musician: "I just liked the line. About the time we recorded the ...
Telegraph Road (Michigan), in the Metro Detroit area, carrying U.S. Highway 24. Telegraph Road (St. Louis County, Missouri), carrying Missouri Route 231. Telegraph Road (Northern Virginia), carrying State Route 241 and State Route 611. Old Wire Road (Missouri and Arkansas), historically known as the Telegraph Road.
Walk of Life. " Walk of Life " is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, being the third track on their fifth studio album Brothers in Arms (1985). It was released as a single in the US in October 1985 and in the UK in January 1986. The track peaked at number seven in the US charts, becoming their third and last top ten hit.