Dire Straits in Australia. The album featured a more lavish production and overall sound than Dire Straits' earlier work, and spawned several big chart singles: "Money for Nothing", which reached number 1 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, and number 4 in the UK Singles Chart, "So Far Away" (No. 20 UK, No. 19 US), "Brothers in Arms" (No. 16 UK), "Walk of Life" (No. 2 UK, No. 7 US), and "Your Latest Trick" (No. 26 UK). "Money for Nothing" was the first video to be played on MTV in the UK and featured guest vocals by Sting, who is credited with
So Far Away (Dire Straits song) the B-side was "If I Had You", from Dire Straits' 1983 EP "ExtendedancEPlay". In Canada, a Limited Edition double Vinyl featuring the full length version of "So Far Away" was released, along with live renditions of "Going Home" and "Sultans of Swing", the instrumental section of "Why Worry" and a Mark Knopfler solo effort, "Fear and Hatred". One of the songs on Mark Knopfler's 2006 album, "Real Live Roadrunning", is a duet version of "So Far Away" with American country-folk singer Emmylou Harris. So Far Away (Dire Straits song) "So Far Away" is a 1985 rock song by Dire Straits.