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The song was released as a single in the U.S and as a rare B-side to Private Investigations on cassette tape in the United Kingdom. MEANING The song takes a look at decline of the British Manufacturing Industry in the early 1980s , focusing on Strikes , Depression and dysfunctionality. For example, the absurdity of media-driven maladies is laid out in a segment of the song describing the narrator's visit to a doctor's office for treatment of his "Industrial Disease". The reference to "Brewer's Droop" as a medical condition is an in-joke, referring both to the Effect Of Alcohol On Libido and to The Band Of The Same Name that Mark Knopfler played in prior to ''Dire Straits''. |
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