Genre: Rock
Style: Classic Rock
Country: UK
Label(s): Vertigo (DST 1)
1.1a. Dire Straits - Walk of Life 1:301.1b. Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love 3:061.1c. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing 5:471.1d. Dire Straits - Private Investigations 4:541.1e. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing 3:401.1f. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms 3:471.1g. Dire Straits - So Far Away 1:131.1h. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (Live) 2:511.1i. Dire Straits - Local Hero (Live) 2:141.1j. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road 2:341.1k. Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick 2:061.1l. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Live) 0:301.1m. Dire Straits - Your Own Sweet Way 1:041.1n. Dire Straits - Calling Elvis 1:191.1o. Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet 5:522.01. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'Your First Hit, 'Sultans of Swing', Was, I Suppose, a Sort of Romantic Portrait of a South London Pub. How Did That Song Come to You' A. I've Always Been Attracted To...A Source of Comfort to Me. 0:322.02. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'You Started Yourselves in Pubs and Clubs, and Actually Sultans Was a Hit in Europe, Australia and the States Before It Was a Hit in the UK.' A. You've Got to Get Used to Playing to an Audience...Some Beer in with the Rest (Laughter) 1:102.03. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'And 'Sultans' Was a Kind of Tribute to Bands Who Didn't Go Onto Have the Success You Did, but Loved Playing'. A. It Was a Little Deserted Pub in Deptford...Rather Tired Little Blokes in Pullovers [Laughter at End] 0:542.04. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'The Track Lady Writer Was Released As a Single - What, Who Is That Song About' A. Oh, I Just Saw Some Woman Talking...And That's the Way It Works. 0:392.05. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'One of Your Most Romantic Songs Is Romeo and Juliet. Is It a Personal Song for You' A. Well Actually I Was Living in Camberwell (Laughter...Tonque in Cheek Thing, You Know.) 0:482.06. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'Another of The, I Suppose, Best Remembered Tracks from Making Movies Was Tunnel of Love.' A. Yeah, Again It Was Some,...There Is No Formula. 2:032.07. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'In the Days When We Used to Talk About LP's, Telegraph Road Was on the Same Side As a Track Called Private Investigations. I've Heard This Was Inspired by the Los Angeles Crime Writer, Raymond Chandler'. A. I Sort of Equated It...Falling Away from You. 0:562.08. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'It Is a Rather Cynical Track' A. Well I Think That a Certain Amount Cynicism...The Most Comfortable Feeling in the World. 0:512.09. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'The Next Thing That You Recorded Was a Much More Joyously Uptempo Sort of Tribute to Rock 'n' Roll, the Twisting by the Pool Ep.' A. I Suppose with That It's Just...He Really Just Sort of Whacked That Rhythm 1:022.10.. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'This Live Version of Love Over Gold - Do You Actually Remember the Performance' A. It Was Probably One of the Hammersmith Odeon Ones...Just Want to Play Something Else. 0:212.11. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'What's Love Over Gold About' A. Love Over Gold - There Was Just Some Graffiti...Just Got Me Thinking You Know. 0:392.12. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'One of the Most Touching Songs, I Think, That Dire Straits Recorded Is So Far Away. It's on the Brothers in Arms Album. a Very Simple, Romantic, in the Everyday Sense, Song. A. Yeah, That's Another Thing Really... So I Suppose It's a Theme That Stays with You. 0:232.13. Mark Knopfler - Q. [General Q on Brothers in Arms, Their Greatest Selling Album] 'Brothers in Arms' Sold 25 Million Copies - When You Were Recording It, Did You Have Any Sense That Yo Would Unleash a Blockbuster' A. Oh, Absolutely Not, I Mean of Course Not,... I Thought That's Kind of Good, I Like That. 0:392.14. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'What's Sting Doing on the Beginning of This Track' A. the Police Were Doing an Advert...Us It Was the Radio. 1:002.15. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'Money for Nothing' Was Reputedly Based on an Overheard Conversation' A. Yeah, I Was in New York...Has Those Possiblities to Create Something. 1:242.16. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'The Title Track 'Brothers in Arms' - What Was the Inspiration There' A. the Term You Know, a Phrase Will Stay...Absurdity of It Seems to Stay in the Mind. 0:332.17. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'The Tracks on This Album Seem to Have a Lot of Space and Atmosphere, Almost As If You're Shooting Holes Through the Arrangement.' A. That Whole of the Album with the Exception...The Strings Are a Contrast with It. 0:532.18. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'Walk of Life' Is Another of the Best Loved Dire Straits Tunes, and a Song Which We Are Sometimes Lead to Believe You Didn't Want to Include on the Album.' A. Oh No, We Did, We Always Wanted It,...Some Cajun Artists Afterwards, an Accordion Took That Organ Part. 0:472.19. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'You Use American Influences in a Number of Your Songs. What Was 'Calling Elvis' All About' A. Just a Pretty Light Thing...Talking to Another Answering Machine. 0:222.20. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'Heavy Fuel - This Is Another Song Which Has a Very Strong Sort of Earthy American Flavour.' A. If You Are Spending a Long Time in the States,...A Lot of My Ideas from Books. 0:542.21. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'So - On Every Street - In Some Ways My Favourite Dire Straits Album, I'm Not Quite Sure Why, Because It's Not the One That Most People Talk About, but It's Got Some, Some of My Favourite Tracks, I Mean the Title Track, for Example, I Find Very Moving. What's It About?' A. I Think It's About the Fact That We... Why It Is I'm Still on the Case. 0:202.22. Mark Knopfler - Q. 'And I Love the Long Instrumental Coda' A. Yeah, I Think George Martin Was in the Studio...(Chuckle) I Love George. 0:072.23. Mark Knopfler - Untitled 0:452.24. Mark Knopfler - Untitled 1:482.25. Mark Knopfler - Untitled 0:262.26. Mark Knopfler - Untitled 0:513.01. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing 5:453.02. Dire Straits - Lady Writer 3:393.03. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet 5:513.04. Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love 8:073.05. Dire Straits - Private Investigations 5:453.06. Dire Straits - Twisting by the Pool 3:303.07. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (Live) 3:273.08. Dire Straits - So Far Away 4:023.09. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing 4:053.10.. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms 4:563.11. Dire Straits - Walk of Life 4:073.12. Dire Straits - Calling Elvis 4:373.13. Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel 4:543.14. Dire Straits - On Every Street 4:343.15. Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick (Live) 6:293.16. Dire Straits - Local Hero - Wild Theme (Live) 4:19More from: Dire Straits