"Expresso Love" is a song written by

Dire Straits Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals, lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Pick Withers (drums, percussion). Th ...

frontman

Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is the one of the two members who stayed during the band's existence ...

for their third album ''

Making Movies ''Making Movies'' is the third studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album includes the singl ...

''. It is one of their heavier songs, with a slightly overdriven guitar playing the main riff, which was recycled from the unreleased track "Making Movies". It also has a piano melody played throughout, which accompanies the guitar. "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

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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. It was also a radio single in the United States, reaching #39 on the

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chart. 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".

References

1980 songs Dire Straits songs Songs written by Mark Knopfler Song recordings produced by Mark Knopfler Song recordings produced by Jimmy Iovine {{1980s-rock-song-stub