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 | ||||||||||
| Songwriter(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, 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 directed by Lester Bookbinder.
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