Skateaway

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"Skateaway"
Skateaway.jpg
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Making Movies
B-side"Solid Rock"
Released1980 (US) [1]
  • 1981 (UK)
Recorded20 June - 25 August 1980
GenreRoots rock
Length6:40 (album version)
4:45 (single version)
LabelVertigo Records
Songwriter(s)Mark Knopfler
Producer(s)Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Iovine
Dire Straits singles chronology
"Romeo and Juliet"
(1980) 		"Skateaway"
(1980) 		"Tunnel of Love"
(1981)
Music video
"Skateaway" on YouTube

"Skateaway" is a 1980 rock song by Dire Straits, dealing with a female roller-skater breezing through busy city streets, while listening to a portable radio through her headphones. It appears on the band's 1980 album Making Movies. It was released as a single in 1980,[2] and in January 1981 peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100[3] and number 37 on the UK Singles Chart.[4] The song was accompanied by a video that was popular on MTV, featuring musician Jayzik Azikiwe (1958-2008) as Rollergirl, though she was credited as Jay Carly in the video directed by Lester Bookbinder.[5]

See also[]

  • Video for 2014 song Gold by Chet Faker featured three female roller-skaters

References[]

  1. ^ "Skateaway (song by Dire Straits) ••• Rock VF, Rock music hits charts". Rockvf.com. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Dire Straits - Skateaway". Discogs.com. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  3. ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Skateaway | full Official Chart History". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Jayzik Azikiwe". Find a Grave.

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