Love over Gold

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Love over Gold
Love over Gold cover
Studio album by Dire Straits
Released September 16, 1982
Recorded 1981-1982
Genre Rock
Length 40:59
Label Vertigo Records
Warner Bros. Records (US)
Producer Mark Knopfler
Professional reviews
Dire Straits chronology
Making Movies
(1980)		 Love over Gold
(1982)		 ExtendedancEPlay
(1983)

Love over Gold is the fourth album by British rock band Dire Straits. Due to its lengthy atmospheric instrumentals it has been cited as the band's only album that resembles progressive rock, although not quite achieving it.[1]

It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world on Vertigo Records outside the U.S. and on September 19, 2000 in the United States.

It is also the last album on which drummer Pick Withers played.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Mark Knopfler.

  1. "Telegraph Road" – 14:15
  2. "Private Investigations" – 6:45
  3. "Industrial Disease" – 5:49
  4. "Love Over Gold" – 6:16
  5. "It Never Rains" – 7:54

[edit] Members

[edit] Additional members

(on tracks 2;4)

[edit] Extra tracks

  • "Private Dancer", a song originally planned for the album, was recorded by the band except for the vocals. Mark Knopfler decided that a female voice would be more appropriate and handed the song to Tina Turner for her comeback album of the same name.[2]
  • "The Way It Always Starts", another song written during the "Love over Gold" sessions, ended up on Knopfler's soundtrack to "Local Hero" with vocals sung by Gerry Rafferty.
  • "Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts" was cut from the album, released in the UK as a B-side, and subsequently released in the U.S. as the 4th track on the ExtendedancEPlay EP.

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
1982 Billboard Pop Albums 19
1982 UK album charts 1

[edit] Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1982 "Industrial Disease" Billboard Mainstream Rock 9
1983 "Industrial Disease" Billboard Pop Singles 75

[edit] Certifications

Organisation Level Date
BPI – UK Gold September 27, 1982
CRIA – Canada Gold November 1, 1982
CRIA – Canada Platinum November 1, 1982
BPI – UK Platinum November 15, 1982
BPI – UK Double Platinum August 5, 1985
CRIA – Canada Double Platinum November 12, 1985
RIAA – U.S. Gold April 1, 1986

[edit] References

  1. ^ All Music Guide: Love over Gold
  2. ^ OfficialCommunity of Mark Knopfler Accessed June 3, 2007
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