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Single:
Private Investigations entered the Australian singles chart* on 27 September 1982 and peaked at #21.
Album:
The song is on Love Over Gold which entered the Australian albums chart* on 4 October 1982. It hit #1 the following week and remained there for a total of 15 weeks.
Songwriter:
Mark Knopfler
Producer:
Mark Knopfler
Record label of Australian release:
Vertigo
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS VIDEO BELOW – also from Love Over Gold: Industrial Disease
Wikipedia:
Love Over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1982. The album featured two singles: Private Investigations and Industrial Disease.
On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, Mark Knopfler said about Private Investigations: “It’s just about the Private Investigations… “What have you got at the end of the day” – Nothing more than you started out with…” It is said the song was inspired by author Raymond Chandler.
The background and subject matter of Industrial Disease was ostensibly the decline of the British manufacturing industry in the early 1980s, describing strikes, clinical and economic depression, and societal dysfunction. However, the song is an extended metaphor, with the idea of the dehumanising routine and repetition of the nine-to-five itself as the real culprit of society’s malaise. About halfway through the song, the narrator goes to the doctor, only to be told his own illness is diagnosed as industrial disease.
Read more:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_over_Gold
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Investigations
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Disease
Lyrics:
It’s a mystery to me, the game commences
For the usual fee, plus expenses
Confidential information, it’s in a diary
This is my investigation, it’s not a public inquiry
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Industrial Disease from Love Over Gold
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