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Select "Walk of Life" in the "Filtra" field. Select "2021" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. ^ "Italian single certifications – Dire Straits – Walk of Life" (in Italian).Scroll through the page-list below until year 2019 to obtain certification. ^ "Danish single certifications – Dire Straits – Walk of life".Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. ^ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1986".^ "Year-End Charts – Adult Contemporary Songs: 1986".^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s".Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. ^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending FEBRUARY 1, 1986".^ "Dire Straits Chart History (Mainstream Rock)".^ "Dire Straits Chart History (Adult Contemporary)".^ "Dire Straits Chart History (Hot 100)".^ "South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (D)".^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005).^ " Dire Straits – Walk of Life" (in Dutch).^ " Nederlandse Top 40 – week 2, 1986" (in Dutch).
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^ " The Irish Charts – – Walk of Life".^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 0560." RPM.^ " Dire Straits – Walk of Life" (in German).^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – CHART POSITIONS PRE 1989".^ a b " Dire Straits – Walk of Life" (in Dutch).List of number-one singles of 1986 (Ireland).Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. However, the American version of the video, featuring comical sports highlight footage in place of the busker scenes proved more popular, with the busker version largely being dropped. Near the end of the video, the busker gets taken away by two policemen. The original music video for the song made for the UK features a busker or street musician wearing the same shirt as Mark Knopfler intercut with the band performing on a stage. A double vinyl record released in the UK in 1985 featured the band's 1978 breakthrough Top 10 single " Sultans of Swing", as well as live versions of "Two Young Lovers" and the rare song "Eastbound Train", one of the first tracks that Dire Straits recorded as a band in demo format, but which never appeared on an album or as a single. The two songs most commonly used were a live version of "Two Young Lovers", which had previously appeared on the 1983 EP ExtendedancEPlay and "One World", the eighth track from Brothers in Arms. Having been used as a flip side for the European version of the "So Far Away" single, "Walk of Life" had many different B-sides across different formats of release in different territories. The songs he plays are oldies, including " I Got a Woman," " Be-Bop-A-Lula," " What'd I Say," " My Sweet Lovin' Woman," and " Mack the Knife." He also plays talking blues. The singer mentioned in the lyrics, "Johnny," is said to perform "down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay," a reference to busking in the subway. The long introduction has become iconic in some circles, with an instantly recognisable riff played on a synthesizer-driven keyboard with hints of the blues. The song was nearly excluded from the album when the co-producer Neil Dorfsman voted against its inclusion, but the rest of the band out-voted him.Ī simple rock and roll rhythm is used, with chord changes limited to I, IV and V chords. ( January 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The track also appeared on three compilation albums: 1988's Money for Nothing, 1998's Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits, and 2005's The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations. The track peaked at number seven in the US charts and was their biggest commercial hit in the UK (along with " Private Investigations"), peaking at number two. It was released as a single on 29 November 1985, but had first been available as the B-side of " So Far Away" released in advance of Brothers in Arms. It subsequently appeared on their live album On the Night (1993). " Walk of Life" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, the third track on their fifth studio album Brothers in Arms (1985).