Industrial Disease (song)

"Industrial Disease" is a 1982 song by British rock band Dire Straits. It was taken from their fourth studio album Love over Gold. It went to number 4 in the United States and was a B-side in the United Kingdom to the single Private Investigations. It deals with the strike of the British television in the early 1980s.

"Industrial Disease"
Single by Dire Straits
from Love over Gold"
B-side"Badges, Posters, Stickers, T-Shirts"
ReleasedNovember 1982
GenreRock
Length4:17 (single version)
5:48 (album version)
LabelVertigo Records
Songwriter(s)Mark Knopfler
Producer(s)Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits singles chronology
""Private Investigations"
(1982)
Industrial Disease ""Twisting by the Pool"
(1983)