Heavy Fuel

"Heavy Fuel"
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.
Songwriter(s)	Mark Knopfler
Producer(s)	Mark Knopfler Alan Clark
Dire Straits singles chronology
"Calling Elvis" (1991) "Heavy Fuel" (1991) "On Every Street" (1992)
"Calling Elvis" (1991) "Heavy Fuel" (1991) "On Every Street" (1992) On Every Street track listing "You and Your Friend" (6) "Heavy Fuel" (7) "Iron Hand" (8)

"Heavy Fuel" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, released on their 1991 album On Every Street. It was also released as a single, and reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart 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.

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