FEATURE: The Lockdown Playlist: Dire Straits’ Making Movies at Forty: Film-Related Cuts

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The Lockdown Playlist

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Dire Straits’ Making Movies at Forty: Film-Related Cuts

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AMONG the big album anniversaries…

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happening this year, I wonder whether many people will be writing about Dire Straits’ Making Movies’ fortieth on Saturday (17th). The third studio album from the band, I think people associate Dire Straits with Brothers in Arms, or their impressive eponymous album of 1978. I think Making Movies is perhaps their best album, and it contains only seven tracks. We get three longer tracks on the first side – including the classics, Tunnel of Love, and Romeo and Juliet -, and there are four shorter songs on the second side – among them, the excellent Expresso Love. Rather than write a separate feature about the album, I am doing an extra Lockdown Playlist this week to honour the album. Although it is a tough time for cinemas and the film industry right now, I wanted to put out a film-related playlist, of course with Dire Straits’ classic album in the mind. Here is an assortment of film-related cuts (and great film soundtrack inclusions) that makes for…

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GREAT listening.