Dire Straits – Making Movies (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1980

Making Movies is an LP by Dire Straits from 1980 released on the Vertigo label.

About this album

Making Movies is where Dire Straits broadened from lean pub-rock precision into fuller, more cinematic songwriting. Their third album, released in 1980 and produced by Jimmy Iovine with Mark Knopfler, centres on the extended drama of Tunnel Of Love and the aching Romeo and Juliet, songs that brought greater depth and ambition to the band’s sound. Knopfler’s guitar lines are more lyrical and expansive here, while the arrangements give the narratives room to breathe without losing the group’s trademark clarity. Widely regarded as one of Dire Straits’ key records, it helped establish them as one of the most distinctive rock bands of the era.