Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978).

This was a pivotal album and you had to be there at the time to really appreciate why. Disco could not be stopped and the nightmare that was the eighties.

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

1980 - Making Movies. 1982 - Love Over Gold. 1985 - Brothers In Arms. 1991 - On Every Street.

Dire Straits promoted the release of their first single and album with the Dire Straits Tour, which started on 6 June 1978 at the Lafayette Club in Wolverhampton, included 55 shows, and ending on 18 November 1978 at the College of Education in Hitchin. The European tour including concerts in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. These concerts presented Dire Straits with their largest audiences to date. The first leg of the tour promoted their first single, "Sultans of Swing"

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Dire Straits like band had a amazing albums which has released. But the public and fans are those who decide ranking lists from time to time. In the time when Dire Straits had were together – they made a bunch of songs which were the hits of 80’s and 90’s even we can say and today. So because of that – from public (audience) we have this rank list for Dire Straits albums. Number 6 – Communiqué (1979) Dire Straits’ second album came out less than a year after their debut, and it sounds hurried. Besides Lady Writer (and maybe opener Once Upon a Time in the West which suits its purpose), the songs are forgettable and the inspiration barely there. Because the band rushed into the studio while the first album was still high on the charts, Communiqué pretty much sounds like its predecessor, but without the payoff punch of a song like Sultans of Swing.

Mark Knopfler: vocals, lead, rhythm guitars David Knopfler: rhythm guitar John Illsley: bass Pick Withers: drums. Produced by Muff Winwood Engineered by Rhett Davies Artwork by Hothouse Photography Paddy Eckersley.

Dire Straits is Dire Straits debut studio album. It was released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records worldwide and by Warner Bros. Records in the US. Dire Straits Q&A. Photography Paddy Eckersley. Painting Chuck Loyola. Engineer Rhett Davies. Design, Artwork Hothouse.

Бывший лидер DIRE STRAITS Mark Knopfler выпустит свой новый, восьмой по счёту студийный альбом, получивший название "Tracker", 16 марта на лейбле Verve Records/Universal Music. Диск был спродюсирован самим Knopfler'ом и его клавишником Guy Fletcher'ом, и записан в лондонской British Grove Studios. Помимо Knopfler'a и Fletcher'a, в работе над песнями приняли участие скрипач John McCusker, флейтист Mike McGoldrick, басист Glenn Worf и барабанщик Ian Thomas.