Skateaway
| "Skateaway" | |||||||||||||
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| Single by Dire Straits | |||||||||||||
| from the album Making Movies | |||||||||||||
| B-side | "Solid Rock" | ||||||||||||
| Released | 27 March 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | 20 June - 25 August 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Genre | Roots rock | ||||||||||||
| Length | Album Version - 6:40 Single Version - 4:45 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Vertigo Records | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mark Knopfler | ||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Iovine | ||||||||||||
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"Skateaway" is a 1980 rock song by Dire Straits, dealing with a female roller-skater breezing through busy city streets, while listening to a portable radio through her headphones. It appears on the band's 1980 album Making Movies. Released as a single in 1980,[1] the song was accompanied by a video that was popular on MTV, featuring musician Jayzik Azikiwe (1958-2008) as Rollergirl, though she was credited as Jay Carly in the video.[2]
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