Private Investigations

Private Investigations

Infobox Single
Name = Private Investigations
Artist = Dire Straits
from Album = Love over Gold
B-side = "Badges, Posters, Stickers & T-Shirts"
Released = 1982
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 05:51
Label = Vertigo
Writer = Mark Knopfler
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "Tunnel of Love"
(1981)
This single = "Private Investigations"
(1982)
Next single = "Twisting by the Pool"
(1983)Extra tracklisting
Album = Love over Gold


Type = studio
prev_track = "Telegraph Road"
prev_no = 1
this_track = "Private Investigations"
track_no = 2
next_track = "Industrial Disease"
next_no = 3

"Private Investigations" is a popular song by Dire Straits from their album "Love over Gold". Although it was not released as a single in the US, it reached #2 in the UK, and is one of their biggest chart successes in the United Kingdom, on a par with "Walk of Life". Similarly, the album it came from, "Love over Gold", only sold 0.5 million copies in the US, though it was well-received elsewhere.

The song begins with a slow piano riff accompanying an acoustic guitar. After several verses, the song opens up into a slow, bass-driven beat, with an electric guitar coming in at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler's acoustic guitar and Marimba played by Mike Mainieri.

On the "" DVD, Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "It's just about the Private Investigations... "What have you got at the end of the day" - Nothing more than you started out with..." It is said the song was inspired by author Raymond Chandler.Fact|date=February 2007

The riff from the song was used on a BT advert in 1994.

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