After the success of Making Movies, Dire Straits had earned the leeway to experiment on their next album, and experiment they did.

Love Over Gold (1982) contains only five songs, each clocking in at or over six minutes. Opening track ‘Telegraph Road’ runs 14 minutes. All that extra runtime is devoted to lengthy instrumental passages featuring Mark Knopfler’s guitar as well as keyboards by new band member Alan Clark.

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