Skateaway
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| "Skateaway" | ||
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| Single by Dire Straits | ||
| from the album Making Movies | ||
| Released | 1981 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 06:18 | |
| Label | Vertigo | |
| Writer(s) | Mark Knopfler | |
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| Dire Straits singles chronology | ||
| "Romeo and Juliet" (1981) |
"Skateaway" (1981) |
"Private Investigations" (1982) |
Skateaway is a 1980 rock song by Dire Straits, dealing with a female roller-skater breezing through busy city streets, who is listening to a then-newly-released Walkman. It appears on Making Movies.
| 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 | Encores | 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 | |
