Making Movies

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Making Movies
Making Movies cover
Studio album by Dire Straits
Released October 17, 1980
Recorded July-August 1980
Genre Rock
Length 37:39
Label Vertigo Records
Warner Bros. Records (US)
Producer Mark Knopfler and Jimmy Iovine
Professional reviews
Dire Straits chronology
Communiqué
(1979)		 Making Movies
(1980)		 Love over Gold
(1982)

Making Movies is the third album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1980. 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.

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 on September 19, 2000 in the United States.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Mark Knopfler, except for the introduction to "Tunnel of Love", which is "The Carousel Waltz" from the musical Carousel, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

  1. "Tunnel of Love" – 8:08
  2. "Romeo and Juliet" – 5:54
  3. "Skateaway" – 6:18
  4. "Expresso Love" – 5:04
  5. "Hand in Hand" – 4:48
  6. "Solid Rock" – 3:19
  7. "Les Boys" – 4:07

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
1980 Billboard Pop Albums 19

[edit] Singles

Year Song US Hot 100 US Mainstream Rock UK singles
1981 "Romeo and Juliet" - - #8
1981 "Expresso Love" - #39 -
1981 "Skateaway" #58 #31 #37
1981 "Tunnel of Love" - - #54
1981 "Solid Rock" - #56 -

[edit] Certifications

Organization Level Date
BPI – UK Gold January 21, 1981
RIAA – U.S. Gold April 21, 1981
RIAA – U.S. Platinum July 30, 1981
BPI – UK Platinum September 7, 1981
BPI – UK Double Platinum August 5, 1985

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