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Tracce: / Tracklist: Down to the Waterline - 0:00 Water of Love - 3:59 Setting Me Up - 9:24 Six Blade Knife - 12:44 Southbound Again - 16:55 Sultans of Swing - 19:55 In the Gallery - 25:41 Wild West End - 31:56 Lions - 36:40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITA Artista Dire Straits Tipo album Studio Pubblicazione 7 luglio 1978 Durata 41 min : 52 s Dischi 1 Tracce 9 Genere Rock Pub rock Etichetta Vertigo Records Produttore Muff Winwood Registrazione 1978 Note rimasterizzato da Bob Ludwig nel 1996 Mark Knopfler - voce, chitarra solista e ritmica David Knopfler - chitarra ritmica John Illsley - basso Pick Withers - batteria Dire Straits è il primo album in studio dell'omonimo gruppo musicale inglese. Il suo immediato successo di critica e di vendite (12 milioni di copie vendute) sancì l'inizio della fortunata carriera del gruppo e soprattutto del suo leader Mark Knopfler. L'album venne registrato nel mese di febbraio 1978 ai Basing St. Studios di Londra; il tecnico del suono è Rhett Davies. Quasi tutto il materiale è tratto da quanto i Dire Straits avevano fino ad allora proposto nelle loro esibizioni in piccoli locali e club londinesi. Le sonorità un po' déjà vu ma sempre molto fresche e le liriche moderne, pur non rispecchiando la temperie punk all'epoca imperante, resero l'album piacevole e facilmente fruibile in particolar modo al pubblico radiofonico che ne decretò immediatamente il successo. La copertina dell'album raffigura un quadro di Chuck Loyola. Tutte le canzoni sono scritte da Mark Knopfler. (fonte: Wikipedia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENG Studio album by Dire Straits Released 7 October 1978 Recorded 13 February - 5 March 1978 at Basing Street Studios, London Genre Roots rock, pub rock, country rock Length 41 min : 34 s Label Vertigo (UK) Warner Bros. (US) Producer Muff Winwood Mark Knopfler -- lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar John Illsley -- bass, backing vocals David Knopfler -- rhythm guitar, backing vocals Pick Withers -- drums Dire Straits is the self-titled debut album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in October 1978 (see 1978 in music) by Phonogram Records. The single "Sultans of Swing" first broke the US top five early spring 1979 (being a hit a full five months after the album was released there) and then rose to #8 in the British charts. "Water of Love" was also released as a single in some countries, and charted in Australia, reaching #54, and in the Netherlands, reaching #28. In Europe, the album sold four million copies while in the U.S. it sold two million copies. The album was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 to most of the world excluding the U.S. and on 19 September 2000 in the United States. For 2010 release of an anniversary album is planned. It will be devoted the 30 anniversary of the edition of a vinyl. The cover image is taken from a painting by Chuck Loyola, while the Dire Straits Fender icon was designed by Geoff Halpern. A small number of guitars were used on the album by Mark Knopfler. These included a pair of red Fender Stratocasters (one from 1961-serial number #68354 and one from 1961/62-serial number #80470). He played his 1928 National and 1937 National steel guitars on tracks "Water of Love" and "Wild West End", respectively. A black Fender thinline Telecaster was played on "Setting Me Up". Mark and David also played Mark's sunburst Fender Telecaster. There was also an unidentified acoustic guitar used on several tracks. (source: Wikipedia)