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European import, blue colored double vinyl 2xLP 🔵🔵.  Brand new and sealed, no damage.  Additionally stored in a clear, resealable, high-quality crystal sleeve. 
Images of the blue vinyl are stock photos.   Hype sticker says "Colour may vary" (possibly referring to shades of blue?). 
From a live FM broadcast recorded at Wembley Stadium, London, England, 11th June 1988.  
SOUND QUALITY WILL NOT AMAZE, BUT THIS IS SOME VERY RARE MATERIAL UNAVAILABLE ELSEWHERE.
Tracklist A1Walk Of Life Written-By –  6:24A2Sultans Of Swing Written-By –  11:05B1Romeo And Juliet Written-By –  11:39B2Money For Nothing Written-By – *, * 8:06CBrothers In Arms Written-By –  9:05D1Wonderful Tonight Written-By – * 5:52D2Solid Rock Written-By –  5:47
All tracks written by Mark Knopfler except: "Money For Nothing" written by Sting & Mark Knopfler  "Wonderful Tonight" written by Eric Clapton.
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute took place on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and was broadcast across 67 countries to a worldwide audience of 600 million people. Mandela was still an imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary at the time of the concert, but the event is considered a pivotal step leading towards his eventual release in February 1990, following 27 years of incarceration.
Unlike the Live Aid concert a few years earlier, the 1988 concert was not primarily a fundraiser (even though it made £5million) but an event intended to raise the awareness worldwide of the injustice occurring under the apartheid regime in South Africa at the time. Most pertinently, it was staged to highlight the lengthy imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other senior ANC members, who had been arrested and held for attempting to change the country's system almost 30 years before.
The concert featured performances from Simple Minds, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder and numerous others. Dire Straits had recently split up but were persuaded to reform for the event, bringing in Eric Clapton on guitar and backing vocals. They played a set that featured band classics as well as a version of Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’.