Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band
Dire Straits, released on 20 September 1982 by
Vertigo Records internationally, and by
Warner Bros. Records in the
United States. The album produced two singles: "
Private Investigations", which reached the number 2 position on the
UK Singles Chart, and "
Industrial Disease", which reached the number 9 position on
Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks in the United States. The fourteen-minute opus "Telegraph Road" has gone on to become a big favorite of FM radio world-wide. The album reached the number one position on album charts in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and the number 19 position in the United States. Love over Gold was certified gold in the United States, platinum in France and Germany, and double-platinum in Canada and the United Kingdom.