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Expresso Love
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Wikipedia article
"'Expresso Love'" is a song written by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler for their third album 'Making Movies'. It is one of their heavier songs, with a distorted guitar playing the main riff, which was recycled from the unreleased track "Making Movies". It also has a keyboard melody played throughout the piece, with the melody altering slightly at points. It is basically a love song. "Expresso Love" also contains a reference to the earlier Dire Straits song "Wild West End" from their eponymous album, with the line "Hey mister, you wanna take a walk in the wild west end sometime?"
It was one of the four songs from the 'Making Movies' album to be performed throughout the Love Over Gold and Brothers in Arms tours, with a particularly notable version on the live album 'Alchemy', but the song was dropped from the lineup afterwards.
In 1984, the live version from 'Alchemy' was released as a single backed with the 'Alchemy' edition of "Two Young Lovers", and the song was later re-released in CD format as one of the B-sides to the single "The Bug".
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Category:1980 songs
Category:Dire Straits songs
Category:Songs written by Mark Knopfler
Category:Song recordings produced by Mark Knopfler
Category:Song recordings produced by Jimmy Iovine
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