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This article is about the song. For the album, see Private Investigations (album) . For the concept, see Private investigator .
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" Private Investigations " is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits from their album Love over Gold . It reached number 2 in the United Kingdom (despite its length), and is one of their biggest chart successes in the UK. The track has appeared on the compilation albums Money for Nothing and Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits , and is the title track to the more recent 2005 compilation, Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler .

The song begins with a deep-pitched synthesizer orchestration, leading into a slow piano progression accompanying a classical guitar, followed by several spoken verses. The single edit removes the opening synthesisers, beginning with acoustic guitar.

After the verses, the song opens into a slow, bass-driven beat, with strident electric guitar chords at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler 's acoustic guitar and marimba played by Mike Mainieri .

On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD , Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "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 . [1]

This song was also modified by Mark Knopfler into a film score for the Bill Forsyth movie Comfort and Joy in 1984, where you can hear the song broken up into portions and used for certain scenes.

It was also used in the video release of the 1984 film Against All Odds during the deleted scenes. A section of the footage cut from the final release dealt with the time spent on the run, in Mexico, by Rachel Ward’s & Jeff Bridges' characters.

The riff from the song was used in France on a Crédit Agricole advert in 1984, and on a BT advert in 1994.

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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2005 compilation album by Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler

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Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler is the third compilation album by Dire Straits and British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler , released in 2005 by Mercury and Vertigo internationally, and Warner Bros. in the United States. Named after their 1982 hit single, the album consists of material by Dire Straits , with songs selected from the group's six studio albums (excluding the 1979 album Communiqué ) from 1978 up through the group's dissolution in 1995. It also features work from the solo career of the group's singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mark Knopfler , including some of his soundtrack material.

The only previously unreleased track on the album is "All the Roadrunning", a duet with country music singer Emmylou Harris . It was released as a single, reaching #8 in the UK. [2] The United States version omits "Darling Pretty", but adds " Skateaway ".

Private Investigations was released in four different versions:

In his review for AllMusic , Thom Jurek gave the album four out of five stars, writing, "This is not only a fine collection for fans because of its wonderful sequencing, but the best introduction to the man and the band that one could ask for." [3]

All songs were written by Mark Knopfler , except where indicated.

* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

11 November 2005 ( 2005-11-11 ) [1]
77 : 12 (CD) 135 : 52 (2CD) 137 : 57 (2CD- U.S.A. )
Dire Straits; Love over Gold , 1982
" Tunnel of Love " (Extract from "The Carousel Waltz" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II )
Dire Straits; Brothers in Arms , 1985
Dire Straits; On Every Street , 1991
Mark Knopfler; Local Hero soundtrack , 1983
" Why Aye Man " (Radio Edit) (featuring Jimmy Nail & Tim Healy)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream , 2002
Mark Knopfler; Sailing to Philadelphia , 2000
"All the Roadrunning" (featuring Emmylou Harris )
Mark Knopfler; All the Roadrunning , 2006
"Tunnel of Love" (Extract from "The Carousel Waltz" by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
"Money for Nothing" (featuring Sting )
"Going Home ( Theme from Local Hero )"
Mark Knopfler; Local Hero soundtrack
"Why Aye Man" (Radio Edit) (featuring Jimmy Nail & Tim Healy)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (Extended Album Version) (featuring James Taylor )
Mark Knopfler; Sailing to Philadelphia
Mark Knopfler; Sailing to Philadelphia
"All the Roadrunning" (featuring Emmylou Harris )
"Tunnel of Love" (Extract from "The Carousel Waltz" by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
"Money for Nothing" (featuring Sting )
"Going Home ( Theme from Local Hero )"
Mark Knopfler; Local Hero soundtrack
"Why Aye Man" (Radio Edit) (featuring Jimmy Nail & Tim Healy)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (Extended Album Version) (featuring James Taylor )
Mark Knopfler; Sailing to Philadelphia
Mark Knopfler; Sailing to Philadelphia
"All the Roadrunning" (featuring Emmylou Harris )

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