"Heavy Fuel" | ||||
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Single by Dire Straits | ||||
from the album On Every Street | ||||
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Released | 21 October 1991[1] | |||
Genre | Rock [2] | |||
Length | 5:10 (extended mix) 4:57 (album version) 4:03 (single version) | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Mark Knopfler | |||
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Dire Straits singles chronology | ||||
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"Heavy Fuel" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits from its 1991 album On Every Street. The song was also released as a single and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, making it the band's second song to do so. [3]
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. [4]
Chart (1990–1991) | Peak position |
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Australia ( ARIA) [5] | 26 |
Belgium ( Ultratop 50 Flanders) [6] | 19 |
Canada Top Singles ( RPM) [7] | 17 |
France ( SNEP) [8] | 32 |
Germany ( Official German Charts) [9] | 48 |
Netherlands ( Dutch Top 40) [10] | 24 |
Netherlands ( Single Top 100) [11] | 25 |
New Zealand ( Recorded Music NZ) [12] | 34 |
UK Singles ( OCC) [13] | 55 |
US Billboard Album Rock Tracks [3] | 1 |
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks [3] | 22 |
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