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Dire Straits (album)
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| Studio album by Dire Straits | |||||
| Released | July 1978 | ||||
| Recorded | February 1978 at Basing Street Studios, London | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 41:34 | ||||
| Label | Vertigo Records Warner Bros. Records (US) |
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| Producer | Muff Winwood | ||||
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Dire Straits is the self-titled debut album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). The album was noted for the single "Sultans of Swing", which at first broke a US Top Five early 1979 (being a hit full five months after the album was released there) and then raised up at #8 in the British charts. It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the U.S. and on September 19, 2000 in the United States. The cover image is taken from a painting by Chuck Loyola.
Country band Highway 101 later covered "Setting Me Up", taking it to the top ten on the U.S. country singles charts in 1990.
All songs written by Mark Knopfler.
- "Down To The Waterline" – 3:55
- "Water Of Love" – 5:23
- "Setting Me Up" – 3:18
- "Six Blade Knife" – 4:10
- "Southbound Again" – 2:58
- "Sultans of Swing" – 5:47
- "In The Gallery" – 6:16
- "Wild West End" – 4:42
- "Lions" – 5:05
The original version of the album contained a slightly shorter version of "Sultans of Swing", omitting the last seconds of the guitar solo at the end of the song, but the full-length version was included on the remastered edition of the album.
- Mark Knopfler – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
- John Illsley – bass, backing vocals
- David Knopfler – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Pick Withers – drums
- Muff Winwood – production
- Rhett Davies – engineer
- Gregg Geller and Bob Ludwig – remastering
- Jo Motta – project coordinator
- Alan Schmidt – art direction
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1979 | Billboard Pop Albums | 2 |
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| 1979 | "Sultans of Swing" | Billboard Pop Singles | 4 |
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| Mark Knopfler · John Illsley Alan Clark · Guy Fletcher · David Knopfler · Pick Withers · Hal Lindes · Terry Williams · Jack Sonni |
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| Albums and EPs | Dire Straits · Communiqué · Making Movies · Love over Gold · ExtendedancEPlay · Alchemy · Brothers in Arms · Money for Nothing · On Every Street · On the Night · Encores · Live at the BBC · Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits · The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations |
| Hit singles | "Sultans of Swing" · "Lady Writer" · "Romeo and Juliet" · "Skateaway" · "Tunnel of Love · "Private Investigations" · "Twisting by the Pool" · "So Far Away" · "Money for Nothing" · "Brothers in Arms" · "Walk of Life" · "Your Latest Trick" · "Calling Elvis" · "Heavy Fuel" · "On Every Street" · "The Bug" |