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Released in 1980, Making Movies is the third album by Dire Straits. The title of the album comes from a line in the song "Skateaway". Rolling Stone ranked the album #52 in their survey of the "100 Best Albums of the 80s". The Killers have covered "Romeo and Juliet" live on several occasions. 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
| 1 | Tunnel Of Love [Intro: The Carousel Waltz] | ♡ | 8:09 | Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II / Mark Knopfler |
| 2 | Romeo and Juliet | ♡ | 5:59 | Mark Knopfler |
| 3 | Skateaway | ♡ | 6:41 | Mark Knopfler |
| 4 | Expresso Love | ♡ | 5:13 | Mark Knopfler |
| 5 | Hand in Hand | ♡ | 4:48 | Mark Knopfler |
| 6 | Solid Rock | ♡ | 3:28 | Mark Knopfler |
| 7 | Les Boys | ♡ | 4:08 | Mark Knopfler |
Links
- Folder:
R:\__Rock & Roll\Dire Straits\1980. Dire Straits - Making Movies (Mercury 2013)(Stig)[LP][DSD128] - Explorer: Open folder
- AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/album/MW0000650080
Credits
Engineer — Shelly Yakus, Jeff Hendrickson, Jon Mathias Keyboards — Roy Bittan Mastered By — Greg Calbi Producer — Jimmy Iovine, Mark Knopfler Songwriter — Mark Knopfler
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