Dire Straits began their run to over the world fame with “Sultans Of Swing”, which, in turn, elevated their 1978 album into the stratosphere of music sales and band popularity. This was later elevated further with their “I want my MTV” call on their brilliant “Money For Nothing” track from their immense “Brothers In Arms” album released in 1985. The band existed for six studio albums, and several Live packages that include “Alchemy” (1984), and “On The Night” (1993). “Alchemy” and “On The Night” are both newly remastered, with neither having been available on vinyl for ages.
On November 3rd, Dire Straits will revisit not only the two previously mentioned live sets with new remastering, but also have dug deep to provide more live sets to create a large but satisfying collection of live music. For “Alchemy“, and “On The Night“, there will be an expansion of the original albums.
These packages feature four main concerts (or live albums): “Alchemy” (1983), “On The Night” (1993), the “Live at the BBC” compilation from 1995 and “Live from the Rainbow Theatre”, a 1979 gig which is previously unreleased.
“Alchemy” is expanded to 3LPs and includes ‘Love Over Gold’ and the extended versions of ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Solid Rock’ and ‘Going Home’, with the addition of the full length version of ‘Portobello Belle’ ‘Industrial Disease’ and ‘Twisting By The Pool’ are also new to the set.
“On The Night” is also expanded to include tracks performed during the tour which have never been released, taken from multitrack recordings of shows in Nimes, Rotterdam and Paris. The seven extra tracks are: ‘Tunnel Of Love, ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Sultans Of Swing’, ‘Two Young Lovers’, ‘When it Comes To You’, ‘I Think I Love You Too Much’ and ‘Fade to Black’.
The “On The Night ‘Encores EP‘ is included as an extra disc in both the vinyl and CD box set. Same four tracks as before, although this new box uses the Black Friday 2021 remastering.
The “Live at the BBC” selection features the same eight tracks on the 1995 release, seven of which are from a July 1978 BBC ‘In Concert’ performance, although “Tunnel of Love” is taken from a January 1981 Old Grey Whistle Test.
Finally, the “Live from the Rainbow Theatre” show from 1979 has been newly mixed by Guy Fletcher and features guest performances from Phil Lynott and Tony de Meur on the last four tracks of the set.
In addition to those two, the previously unreleased “Live at The Rainbow Theatre” (1979) will be added, along with “Encores”, and the “Live at the BBC”, plus a 16-page booklet is included in the set.
Featuring remastered, extended, and unreleased recordings from some of their most coveted live albums and performances. Including “Live At The Rainbow”, “Alchemy”, “On The Night”, “Encores”, “Live At The BBC”, plus artwork prints and exclusive 16-page booklet.
There will be a 12LP Box, DD, and an 8CD Box.
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