Heavy Fuel

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"Heavy Fuel"
File:Dire Straits Heavy Fuel single cover.jpg
Single by Dire Straits
from the album On Every Street
B-side
  • "Planet of New Orleans"
  • "Kingdom Come"
Released21 October 1991 (1991-10-21)
GenreRock[1]
Length
  • 4:57 (album version)
  • 4:03 (single version)
LabelVertigo
SongwriterMark Knopfler
Producers
Dire Straits singles chronology
"Calling Elvis"
(1991) 		"Heavy Fuel"
(1991) 		"On Every Street"
(1992)

"Heavy Fuel" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, released in October 1991 by Vertigo Records as the second single from their sixth and final album, On Every Street (1991). The song reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, making it the band's second song to do so.

Lyrical content

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In "Heavy Fuel", Mark Knopfler ironically extols the virtues of such vices as cigarettes, hamburgers, Scotch, lust, money and violence. The phrase "You got to run on heavy fuel" is from the novel Money by Martin Amis, on which Knopfler based his lyric.[2]

Music video

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The song's music video features American actor-comedian Randy Quaid who plays as the band's roadie messing around the venues where the band performs and even fantasizes himself as the band's singer Mark Knopfler.

Track listings

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  1. "Heavy Fuel"
  2. "Planet of New Orleans"
  3. "Kingdom Come"

Charts

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Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom 21 October 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 Vertigo [18]
Australia 4 November 1991
  • CD
  • cassette
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Japan 5 December 1991 Mini-CD [20]

See also

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References

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  9. ^ Radio Luxembourg Singles. 17 November 1991.
  10. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Dire Straits" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Dire Straits – Heavy Fuel" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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  13. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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