Skateaway

"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. It was released as a single in 1980,[1] and in January 1981 peaked at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] 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.[3]

"Skateaway"
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Making Movies
B-side"Solid Rock"
Released1980
Recorded20 June - 25 August 1980
GenreRoots rock
Length6:40 (album version)
4:45 (single version)
LabelVertigo Records
Songwriter(s)Mark Knopfler
Producer(s)Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Iovine
Dire Straits singles chronology
"Romeo and Juliet"
(1980)		 "Skateaway"
(1980)		 "Tunnel of Love"
(1981)

See also
  • Video for 2014 song Gold by Chet Faker featured three female roller-skaters

References
  1. "Dire Straits - Skateaway".
  2. https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1981-01-31
  3. "Jayzik Azikiwe". Find a Grave.
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