For the play by Aaron Sorkin, see Aaron Sorkin. For the band, see Making Movies (band).
1980 studio album by Dire Straits
Making Movies
Studio album by
Dire Straits
Released
17 October 1980
Recorded
20 June – 25 August 1980
Studio
Power Station, New York City
Genre
Roots rock
new wave[1]
Length
37:39
Label
Vertigo (UK) · Warner Bros. (US) · Mercury (Canada)
Producer
Jimmy Iovine
Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits chronology
Communiqué (1979)
Making Movies (1980)
Love over Gold (1982)
Singles from Making Movies
"Tunnel of Love" Released: 24 October 1980 (EU)[2]
"Skateaway" Released: December 1980 (US)
"Romeo and Juliet" Released: 9 January 1981
Making Movies is the third studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. 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.
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. Making Movies was later certified platinum in the United States and double-platinum in the United Kingdom by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) respectively. It's regarded as one of Dire Straits’ best albums.[3][1]
^ abErlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Making Movies". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
^"Dire Straits singles".
^"100 Best Albums of the Eighties: 52: Making Movies". Rolling Stone. 5 February 1980. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
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