Private Investigations
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| Single by Dire Straits from the album Love over Gold |
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| B-side | "Badges, Posters, Stickers & T-Shirts" | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 1982 | ||||||||||||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 05:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Label | Vertigo | ||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mark Knopfler | ||||||||||||||
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"Private Investigations" is a popular song by Dire Straits from their album Love over Gold. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it reached #2 in the UK, and is one of their biggest chart successes in the United Kingdom, on a par with "Walk of Life". Similarly, the album it came from, Love over Gold, only sold 0.5 million copies in the US, though it was well-received elsewhere.
The song begins with a slow piano riff accompanying an acoustic guitar. After several verses, the song opens up into a slow, bass-driven beat, with an electric guitar coming in at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler's acoustic guitar and Marimba played by Mike Mainieri.
On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "It's just about the Private Investigations... "What have you got at the end of the day" - Nothing more than you started out with..." It is said the song was inspired by author Michael Crichton.[citation needed]
The riff from the song was used on a BT advert in 1994.
[edit] Chart positions
| Country | Peak position |
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| The Netherlands | #1[1] |
| UK | #2 |
[edit] References
- ^ De Nederlandse Top 40, week 39, 1982. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
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