Your Latest Trick

Infobox Single
Name = Your Latest Trick


Artist = Dire Straits
from Album = Brothers in Arms
Released = 1986
1993 (France)
Format = 12" maxi
Recorded = 1985
Genre = Rock
Length = 06:33
Label = Vertigo
Writer = Mark Knopfler
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "Walk of Life"
(1986)
This single = "Your Latest Trick"
(1986)
Next single = "Calling Elvis"
(1991)

"Your Latest Trick" is a 1986 rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the studio album "Brothers in Arms", and also on the live album "On The Night"; the same live version is on "".

Lyrics and music

The saxophone introduction to the song, as Mark Knopfler says on the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, is now widely used when people are trying out saxophones at music shops, just as Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is widely used when trying out guitars. Having one of his songs used in such a way is something that he always dreamt of.

Michael Brecker played the saxophone solo on the original recording, while Chris White played it live on the "Brothers in Arms" and "On Every Street" world tours.

The saxophone introduction was also used in the theme music for the TVB series Files of Justice.

Track listings

; 12" maxi
# "Your Latest Trick" — 6:28
# "Irish Boy" by Mark Knopfler — 4:36
# "The Long Road" by Mark Knopfler — 7:13

Charts

¹ EP "Your Latest Trick" / "Encores"

References