Dire Straits ‎– Live 1978-1992 12LP Box Set

Dire Straits ‎– Live 1978-1992 

Dire Straits Live 1978-1992 is a 12 LP boxset featuring:

-Newly remastered versions of Alchemy and On The Night, both of which are currently unavailable on vinyl (Alchemy was last pressed in the mid-eighties, On The Night was last pressed for the original release in 1993).

-An expanded version of the original 2LP of Alchemy to include the existing digital/CD tracklist which includes ‘Love Over Gold’ and the extended versions of ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Solid Rock’ and ‘Going Home’, with the addition of ‘Portobello Belle’ (released on the Money For Nothing compilation in 1998) as well as the unreleased songs from the performance – ‘Industrial Disease’ and ‘Twisting By The Pool’.

An expanded version of the original 2LP of On The Night to include tracks performed during the tour which have never been released, taken from multitrack recordings of shows in Nimes, Rotterdam and Paris: ‘Tunnel Of Love, ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Sultans Of Swing’, ‘Two Young Lovers’, ‘When it Comes To You’, ‘I Think I Love You Too Much’.

-Encores on black vinyl (remastered for Black Friday 2021)

-Licenced 1995 collection Live At The BBC

-The unreleased Dire Straits Live from the Rainbow Theatre show, 1979 – mixed by Guy Fletcher

-16 page booklet featuring a new extensive research essay by journalist & broadcaster Paul Sexton – ‘Making Milestones: The Momentous Road Years Of Dire Straits’ – plus, photographs from their many years on the road.

Tracklist:

ALCHEMY

SIDE ONE
1. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
2. INDUSTRIAL DISEASE

SIDE TWO
1. EXPRESSO LOVE
2. ROMEO AND JULIET
3. LOVE OVER GOLD

SIDE THREE
1. PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS
2. SULTANS OF SWING
3. TWISTING BY THE POOL

SIDE FOUR
1. TWO YOUNG LOVERS
2. PORTOBELLO BELLE

SIDE FIVE
1. TUNNEL OF LOVE
2. SOLID ROCK

SIDE SIX
1. TELEGRAPH ROAD
2. GOING HOME – THEME FROM ‘LOCAL HERO’

ON THE NIGHT

SIDE ONE
1. CALLING ELVIS
2. WALK OF LIFE

SIDE TWO
1. HEAVY FUEL
2. ROMEO AND JULIET

SIDE THREE
1. PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS
2. SULTANS OF SWING

SIDE FOUR
1. FADE TO BLACK
2. YOUR LATEST TRICK
3. WHEN IT COMES TO YOU
4. I THINK I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH

SIDE FIVE
1. YOU AND YOUR FRIEND
2. ON EVERY STREET
3. TWO YOUNG LOVERS

SIDE SIX
1. TUNNEL OF LOVE

SIDE SEVEN
1. TELEGRAPH ROAD

SIDE EIGHT
1. MONEY FOR NOTHING
2. BROTHERS IN ARMS

ENCORES

SIDE ONE
1. YOUR LATEST TRICK
2. THE BUG

SIDE TWO
1. SOLID ROCK
2. LOCAL HERO – WILD THEME

LIVE AT THE BBC

SIDE ONE
1. DOWN TO THE WATERLINE
2. SIX BLADE KNIFE
3. WATER OF LOVE
4. WILD WEST END
5. SULTANS OF SWING

SIDE TWO
1. LIONS
2. WHAT’S THE MATTER BABY?
3. TUNNEL OF LOVE

LIVE AT THE RAINBOW

SIDE ONE
1. DOWN TO THE WATERLINE
2. SIX BLADE KNIFE
3. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
4. LADY WRITER

SIDE TWO
1. LIONS
2. SULTANS OF SWING
3. LES BOYS
4. PORTOBELLO BELLE

SIDE THREE
1. NEWS
2. WHAT’S THE MATTER BABY?
3. SETTING ME UP
4. IN THE GALLERY

SIDE FOUR
1. SOLID ROCK
2. SOUTHBOUND AGAIN
3. WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING?

SIDE FIVE
1. WILD WEST END
2. TWISTING BY THE POOL
3. GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL*

SIDE SIX
1. THAT’S ALRIGHT MAMA*
2. NADINE*
3. KEEP ON KNOCKING* / WITH PHIL LYNOTT AND TONY DE MEUR

Label: Mercury
Released: 2023