Skateaway" is another brilliant song, the only song on which Knopfler really shows us what a great guitar player he is. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.

Rolling Stone ranked Making Movies number 52 in their survey of the 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. He even went as far as getting Springsteen's piano player Roy Bittan to play lots of sweeping arpeggios and big full chords when needed, and at the very beginning of the album is an extract from Rogers and Hammerstein's The Carousel Waltz, a very Springsteenian theme. Making Movies is the third studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros.The song is filled with romantic projections, though in real life most women would run away from a creepy carnival worker hitting on them.

Almost flawless album Amazing vocals, amazing instrumentation, and the lyric writing is truely immaculate here. A slightly noisy sound floor on the lead in on side one is the only production issue I noticed, not enough to complain about and hardly noticeable in the songs. Everything sounds the same at a certain point, all of these songs start off good but trail off into nothing of note.I'm inclined to agree with Rolling Stone magazine's assessment that had this record actually been a motion picture, it might have garnered a flock of Academy Awards. With new group members Alan Clark and Hal Lindes on board, Dire Straits embarked on tours of Europe, North America, and Oceania [6] from October 1980 until July 1981 to promote the album. Making Movies is the record on which Mark Knopfler comes out from behind his influences and Dire Straits come out from behind Mark Knopfler. Making Movies reached number one on the album charts in Italy and Norway, number 19 in the United States and number 4 in the United Kingdom. The album includes the single " Romeo and Juliet", which reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as “ Tunnel of Love,” featured in the 1982 Richard Gere film An Officer and a Gentleman.