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Industrial Disease (song)

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"Industrial Disease"
Single by Dire Straits
from the album 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"
(1982)
"Twisting by the Pool"
(1983)

"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.