Chart Position: 1
- #8 bestseller for 1985
- Lead vocals: Mark Knopfler
- Written by Mark Knopfler and Sting
- Lead guitar: Mark Knopfler
- Produced by Mark Knopfler and Mark Dorfsman
- Backing vocals: Sting
- Percussion: Omar Hakim and Terry Williams
- Recorded in Monserrate and London U.K.
- This song’s music video was the first to contain computer-generated characters
- This is Dire Straits’ only U.S. No. 1 hit single
- Later recorded by Big Daddy (1991) and Bob Rivers (2002)
The Year in Music 1963 - 1988 