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Love Over Gold was the first Dire Straits album produced solely by Mark Knopfler, and its main chart hit, "Private Investigations", gave Dire Straits their first top 5 hit single in the United Kingdom, where it reached the number 2 position, despite its almost seven-minute length, and became another of the band's most popular live songs.
"Your Latest Trick" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, the fourth track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms (1985). It was released as the album's fifth and final single in April 1986 by Vertigo Records.
Recorded from inside a car and later posted on TikTok by Stephen Flynn, the brief clip shows John Metcalfe, 59, singing Dire Straits’ “Sultans of Swing” and playing acoustic guitar on Aug. 20.
A DVD of the same name was also released, featuring the music videos of all the songs on the single CD version, in addition to short interviews with Mark Knopfler about each song. The album is named after the band's 1978 hit single of the same name.
"Heavy Fuel" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits from their 1991 album On Every Street. The song was also released as a single and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, making it the band's second song to do so. [3]
"Telegraph Road" became a staple of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler solo tours. A slightly shorter live version of the song is included in the 1984 live album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, [3] and a remixed edit of that performance is included in their 1988 greatest hits album Money for Nothing. [4]
The Brothers in Arms Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Dire Straits. The tour promoted and supported the group's fifth album, Brothers in Arms, which was released in May 1985. [1] The tour started on 25 April 1985 in Split, Croatia and ended on 26 April 1986 in Sydney, Australia.
The album was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States, before being deleted in 1998 and replaced by another compilation, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits. The cover art is a screenshot taken from the "Money for Nothing" music video. The version of ...