Heavy Fuel
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| "Heavy Fuel" | |||||||||||||
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| Single by Dire Straits | |||||||||||||
| from the album On Every Street | |||||||||||||
| B-side |
"Planet of New Orleans" "Kingdom Come" | ||||||||||||
| Released | 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Format | CD, Cassette | ||||||||||||
| Genre | Roots rock, hard rock | ||||||||||||
| Length | 5:10 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Vertigo/Warner Bros. | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mark Knopfler | ||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits | ||||||||||||
| Dire Straits singles chronology | |||||||||||||
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"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, and reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart[1] in the United States, after "Money for Nothing", their second song to do so.
In "Heavy Fuel", Mark Knopfler ironically extols the virtues of such conventionally frowned-upon vices as cigarettes, hamburgers, Scotch, lust, money, and violence.
The phrase "You gotta run on heavy fuel" is from the novel Money by Martin Amis, on which Knopfler based his lyric.[2]
Track listings
- "Heavy Fuel"
- "Planet of New Orleans"
- "Kingdom Come"
Chart performance
| Chart (1991/1992) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] | 26 |
| Belgium Singles Chart[4] | 19 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles[5] | 17 |
| Dutch GfK chart[6] | 25 |
| Dutch Top 40[7] | 24 |
| French Singles Chart[8] | 32 |
| German Singles Chart[9] | 48 |
| Italian Singles Chart[10] | 22 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[11] | 34 |
| UK Singles Chart[12] | 55 |
| US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks[1] | 1 |
| US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[1] | 22 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "allmusic ((( Dire Straits > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Retrieved 12 July 2009.
- ↑ Dagostino, Susan. 2006 Mark Knopfler's Song Inspirations. EzineArticles. Retrieved on 12 July 2009.
- ↑ "australian-charts.com - Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel". Retrieved 12 July 2009.
- ↑ "Heavy fuel in Belgian Chart". Ultratop and Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ↑ "RPM Volume 55 No. 6, February 01 1992 - RPM". Retrieved 12 July 2009.
- ↑ "dutchcharts.nl - Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel". Retrieved 12 July 2009. (Dutch)
- ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 - Week 47, 1991". Retrieved 12 July 2009. (Dutch)
- ↑ "lescharts.com - Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel". Retrieved 12 July 2009. (French)
- ↑ "Heavy fuel in German Chart". Media control. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ↑ "Indice per Interprete: D". HitParadeItalia (it). Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ↑ Hung Medien. "Heavy fuel in New Zealand Chart". Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ↑ "Chart Stats - Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel". Retrieved 12 July 2009.
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