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Heavy Fuel

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Released
  
1991

Genre
  
Roots rockhard rock

Label
  
VertigoWarner Bros.

Format
  
CDcassette

Length
  
5:10

B-side
  
"Planet of New Orleans""Kingdom Come"

"Heavy Fuel" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, released on their 1991 album On Every Street. It was also released as a single, and reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States, after "Money for Nothing", their second song to do so.

In "Heavy Fuel", Mark Knopfler ironically extols the virtues of such conventionally frowned-upon vices as cigarettes, hamburgers, Scotch, lust, money, and violence.

The phrase "You gotta run on heavy fuel" is from the novel Money by Martin Amis, on which Knopfler based his lyric.

Track listings

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

References

Heavy Fuel Wikipedia


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