Heavy Fuel
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"Heavy Fuel" | ||
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Single by Dire Straits | ||
from the album On Every Street | ||
Released | 1991 | |
Genre | Rock | |
Length | 05:10 | |
Label | Vertigo | |
Writer(s) | Mark Knopfler | |
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Dire Straits singles chronology | ||
"Calling Elvis" (1986) |
"Heavy Fuel" (1991) |
"The Bug" (1992) |
Heavy Fuel is a song by the rock band Dire Straits released on their album On Every Street in 1991. It was also released as a single.
The phrase "You gotta run on Heavy Fuel" is from a book Mark Knopfler read, and he thought of the sentence when he wrote a song.
Dire Straits |
Mark Knopfler | John Illsley | Alan Clark | Guy Fletcher | David Knopfler | Pick Withers | Hal Lindes | Terry Williams | Jack Sonni |
Discography |
Albums and extended plays: Dire Straits | Communiqué | Making Movies | Love over Gold | ExtendedancEPlay | Alchemy | Brothers in Arms | On Every Street | On the Night | Live at the BBC | Money for Nothing | Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits | The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations |
Hit Singles: Sultans of Swing | Lady Writer | Romeo and Juliet | Skateaway | Private Investigations | Twisting by the Pool | So Far Away | Money for Nothing | Brothers in Arms | Walk of Life | Your Latest Trick | Calling Elvis | Heavy Fuel | |