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
Chart positions
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 |