Artist: DIRE STRAITS
Album: MAKING MOVIES REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1980/ 1996
EAN/UPS: 0042280005023
Media type: CD

Making Movies is the third album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1980. Rolling Stone ranked the album #52 in their survey of the "100 Best Albums of the 80s". The Killers have covered "Romeo and Juliet" live on several occasions.

It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the U.S. and on September 19, 2000 in the United States.

All songs written by Mark Knopfler, except for the introduction to "Tunnel of Love", which is "The Carousel Waltz" from the musical Carousel, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

TRACKLIST:

"Tunnel of Love" – 8:08
"Romeo and Juliet" – 5:54
"Skateaway" – 6:18
"Expresso Love" – 5:04
"Hand in Hand" – 4:48
"Solid Rock" – 3:19
"Les Boys" – 4:07

LINE-UP:

Mark Knopfler: guitar, vocals
John Illsley: bass, vocals
Pick Withers: drums, vocals

Additional personnel:
Roy Bittan: keyboards
David Knopfler: guitar (uncredited)
Sid McGinnis: guitar (uncredited)