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Love Over Gold

Love over Gold
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Studio album by Dire Straits
Released 20 September 1982 (1982-09-20)
Recorded Power Station, NY
8 March – 11 June 1982
Genre Progressive rock, Roots rock
Length 41:15
Label
Producer Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits chronology
Making Movies
(1980)
Love over Gold
(1982)
ExtendedancEPlay
(1983)
Singles from Love over Gold
  1. "Private Investigations"
    Released: 23 August 1982
  2. "Industrial Disease"
    Released: 1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Robert Christgau C+
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars

Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 20 September 1982 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced two singles, "Private Investigations", which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Industrial Disease", which reached number 9 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States. The fourteen-minute opus, "Telegraph Road" has gone on to become a favourite on FM radio worldwide. The album reached number 1 on album charts in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom, and number 19 in the United States. Love over Gold was later certified gold in the United States, platinum in France and Germany and double-platinum in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Following the end of the On Location Tour on 6 July 1981 in Luxembourg, Mark Knopfler began writing the songs for Dire Straits' next album. Alan Clark (keyboards) and Hal Lindes (guitar), who joined the band for the On Location Tour, would also be involved with the new album.

Love over Gold was recorded at the Power Station in New York from 8 March to 11 June 1982. Knopfler produced the album, with Neil Dorfsman as his engineer—the first in a long line of collaborations between the two.

Knopfler used several guitars during the sessions, including four Schecter —two red, one blue, and one sunburst—a black Schecter Telecaster, an Ovation classical guitar on "Private Investigations" and "Love over Gold", a custom Erlewine Automatic on "Industrial Disease", and his 1937 National steel guitar on "Telegraph Road". Knopfler also used Ovation twelve- and six-string acoustic guitars during the recording.


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