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"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.
"Walk of Life" was released in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2000 as a CD and cassette single. [5] The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart on 23 December 2000 at number 25, its peak. [ 6 ] It remained on the chart for five weeks and became the lowest-charting single of Piper's career despite heavy promotion. [ 7 ]
Walker spent his early folk music days in Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s. [9] He co-founded a band with Bob Bruno in the late-1960s called Circus Maximus that put out two albums, [9] one with the popular FM radio hit "Wind", but Bruno's interest in jazz apparently diverged from Walker's interest in folk music. [9]
The song was released on June 6, 2011, to rock radio. No physical CD single was released; it is only a digital downloadable single. The song reached number one on the Billboard Rock Songs chart on July 20, 2011, dethroning the album's previous single "Rope", giving the band their third number one single on the chart - the most on the chart so far.
In '57, I wrote a song called "Old Apache Squaw" and then forgot the so-called Indian protest for a while, but nobody else seemed to speak up with any volume of voice. [69] Columbia Music, the label for which Cash was recording then, was opposed to putting the song on his next album, considering it "too radical for the public". [70]
Haggard, who died in 2016, wrote a variety of political songs in his time, from one praising Hillary Clinton, to 1969 “Okie from Muskogee,” a rebuke of the hippie culture during the Vietnam War.
It was Anderson's second top ten hit as a recording artist. His first was his previous single release "Walk Out Backwards." [4] The song was not issued on a proper album following its release. [5] However, it was later released on his 1962 compilation entitled Bill Anderson Sings Country Heart Songs. The album featured his biggest hits for the ...
It was the 15th chart single of his career. It spent three weeks at Number One on the Billboard country charts in mid-1996, becoming the longest-lasting Number One hit of his career. [1] It also received a Single of the Year nomination from the Country Music Association in 1996, [2] as well as a Song of the Year nomination for both 1996 and 1997.