| align="center" colspan="3" bgcolor="orange" style="color:black"|Communiqu |
| lign="center" colspan="3"| |
| lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Album by Dire Straits |
| lign="left" valign="top"|Released | align="left" colspan=2|June 1979 |
| lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded | align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|November 27, 1978 to January 10, 1979 |
| lign="left" valign="top"|Genre | align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|Rock |
| lign="left" valign="top"|Length | align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|42 min 24 sec |
| lign="left" valign="top"|Label | align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|Warner Brothers |
| lign="left" valign="top"|Producers | align="left" valign="top" colspan=2|Barry Beckett,
Jerry Wexler |
| lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews |
| lign="left" valign="top"|AMG | valign="top" align=center|2½/5 | valign="top"|link |
| lign="left" valign="top"|RollingStone | valign="top" align="center"|NR | valign="top"|link |
| gcolor="orange" colspan="3" align="center" style="color:black;"|Dire Straits Chronology |
i>Dire Straits
(1978) | Communiqu
(1979) | Making Movies
(1980) |