Skateaway

"Skateaway"
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Making Movies
B-side Solid Rock
Released 27 March 1981
Recorded 20 June - 25 August 1980
Genre Roots rock
Length 6:40
Label Vertigo
Writer(s) Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits singles chronology
"Romeo and Juliet"
(1980)
"Skateaway"
(1981)
"Tunnel of Love"
(1981)
Making Movies track listing
Romeo and Juliet
(2)
"Skateaway"
(3)
Expresso Love
(4)

"Skateaway" is a 1980 rock song by Dire Straits, dealing with a female roller-skater (Jay Curley/Jayzik Azikiwe) breezing through busy city streets, who is listening to a then-newly-released Walkman. It appears on Making Movies. Released as a single in 1981, the song was accompanied by a video that was popular on MTV. The line "making movies on location" was from the unreleased track "Making Movies".