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Dire Straits Live 2 LP Alchemy Gatefold Super Condition - Beautiful Gatefold Spread Photo/Montage Art/ Promo Sticker Front Cover / Speically Priced Sticker on LP / QUIEX II Limted Edition Pressing - Black Plastic Inners - Vinyl NM/M
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Dire Straits ‎– Alchemy - Dire Straits Live Label:Warner Bros. Records ‎– W1-25085 Format:2 × Vinyl, LP, Album  Country:US Released:1984 Genre:Rock Style:Classic Rock
Track listing All songs were written by Mark Knopfler, except where indicated. Side one No.TitleLength 1."Once upon a Time in the West"13:01 2."Romeo and Juliet"8:22 Side two No.TitleLength 1."Expresso Love"5:41 2."Private Investigations"7:40 3."Sultans of Swing"10:48 Side three No.TitleLength 1."Two Young Lovers"4:51 2."Tunnel of Love" (Extract from "The Carousel Waltz" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II)14:38 Side four No.TitleLength 1."Telegraph Road"13:19 2."Solid Rock"5:32 3."Going Home – Theme from 'Local Hero"4:58
Personnel  Dire Straits Mark Knopfler – guitar, vocals Alan Clark – keyboards John Illsley – bass guitar, backing vocals Hal Lindes – guitar, backing vocals Terry Williams – drums Additional musicians Mel Collins – saxophone Tommy Mandel – keyboards Joop de Korte – percussion Production Mark Knopfler – producer Mick McKenna – recording engineer Nigel Walker – engineer Jeremy Allom – assistant engineer Brett Whiteley – artwork (adapted from Alchemy 1974) C More Tone Studios – design
Credits Engineer – Nigel Walker Engineer [Assistant] – Jeremy Allom Recorded By – Mick McKenna Written-By, Producer – Mark Knopfler Notes Recorded at Rolling Stones Mobile, July 1983.  Mixed at Air Studios, London, November 1983.
more... Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is a double album and the first live album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 16 March 1984  by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22–23 July 1983, the album features the band's best-known and fan-favourite songs from their first four albums, the ExtendedancEPlay EP and Knopfler's Local Hero soundtrack. Many of the songs have reworked arrangements and extended improvisational segments. The album cover is taken from a painting by Brett Whiteley. Alchemy: Dire Straits Live was remastered and re-released on 8 May 2001.
Dire Straits were a British rock band that formed in Deptford, London, in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), his younger brother David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, and blues, and came closest to beat music within the context of rock and roll. Despite the prominence of punk rock during the band's early years, their stripped-down sound contrasted with punk, demonstrating a more "rootsy" influence that emerged from pub rock. Many of Dire Straits' compositions were melancholic.
Dire Straits' biggest-selling album, 1985's Brothers in Arms, has sold over 30 million copies, and was the first album to sell a million copies on the then-new compact disc (CD) format. The band became one of the world's most commercially successful, with worldwide records sales of over 100 million. Dire Straits won four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards—winning Best British Group twice, two MTV Video Music Awards, and various other music awards.
According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Albums, Dire Straits have spent over 1,100 weeks on the UK albums chart, ranking fifth all-time. Their career spanned 15 years. They split in 1988, reformed in 1991, and disbanded again in 1995 after Mark Knopfler launched his solo career full-time. There were several changes in personnel over both periods, with Mark Knopfler and Illsley as the only members who remained throughout the band's career.