Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978).

Dire Straits (album).

Dire Straits - Concert 1985-07-10 Venue Wembley Arena, London, UK Date Wednesday, 10 July 1985.

Around South America. Еще альбомы Dire Straits. The Studio Albums 1978 - 1991. Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of Dire Straits.

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Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced the hit single "Sultans of Swing", which reached on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached on album charts in Germany, Australia and France, in the United States and in the United Kingdom

Dire Straits started off organising their own concerts around south London, printing the tickets themselves, or playing for charity. Rock writer Charlie Gillett put them on his Sunday show on Radio London, a record contract followed, and as soon as Sultans started being played on the radio all over the world it started to sell. It was as simple as that, with success for once based on the music and the music alone. Tight, melodic and fresh, with Mark’s Dylanesque drawl and classy guitar work matched against slick, sometimes gently mesmeric but always insistent rhythms, Dire Straits’ style is like an English interpretation of an all-American fusion, from . Mr Knopfler didn’t fully agree. There are American influences but there are English influences, like the Shadows. But they in turn were influenced by Americans like the Ventures.

On 31 August 1985, Dire Straits officially conquered America. The Billboard magazine from that date showed the band’s already massively successful Brothers In Arms album taking over from Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair at No. 1, a position it wouldn’t give up for nine weeks.

Dire Straits released their debut album in October 1978. Given their low-key music and resolute lack of visual flash, the guys in Dire Straits seemed like good candidates for one of those slow-building careers – and unlikely candidates for mainstream pop stardom. where the record's big single, "Sultans of Swing," took more than five months to really start taking off.