Alchemy: Dire Straits Live
| Alchemy: Dire Straits Live | ||||
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Publication |
March 13, 1984 |
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admission |
22-23 July 1983 |
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| Label (s) | Vertigo Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP, MC, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
93:59 |
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Mark Knopfler |
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Studio (s) |
Live: Hammersmith Odeon, London (England) |
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Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (English for: "Alchemy: Dire Straits live") is the first live album by the British rock band Dire Straits , which was released in March 1984.
background
After all concert recordings of the great Love over Gold world tour turned out to be unusable for an album, the Hammersmith Odeon in London was rented for two concerts. This resulted in the album Alchemy , the band's first live album. Due to its length, it was released on two LPs. The album cover is indicated by two arrows, one away from each other, then towards each other. This was also the logo of the concert.
The first LP begins with a short intro, followed by Once Upon a Time in the West , which is characterized by guitar solos by Mark Knopfler . The live version of Sultans of Swing , one of the most famous songs of Dire Straits, is the heart of the album, along with Telegraph Road , an epic piece about a quarter of an hour long. With Going Home - Theme from Local Hero , a piece from a series of Knopfler's film music, the concert and thus the album is closed with calm guitar tones.
In May 2010 a revised recording was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Track list
CD
CD 1
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Once Upon a Time in the West (Mark Knopfler) - 13:01
- Intro: Stargazer ((Mark Knopfler); instrumental from the Local Hero soundtrack)
- Expresso Love (Mark Knopfler) - 5:45
- Romeo and Juliet (Mark Knopfler) - 8:17
- Love over Gold (Mark Knopfler) - 3:27
- Private Investigations (Mark Knopfler) - 7:34
- Sultans of Swing (Mark Knopfler) - 10:54
CD 2
- Two Young Lovers (Mark Knopfler) - 4:49
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Tunnel of Love (Mark Knopfler) - 14:29
- End of intro: The Carousel Waltz ( Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II ) - 4:10 to 4:30 from Tunnel of Love
- Telegraph Road (Mark Knopfler) - 13:37
- Solid Rock (Mark Knopfler) - 6:01
- Going Home - Theme from Local Hero (Mark Knopfler) - 6:05
Cassette and LP
In the cassette and LP version, the track order on the first cassette / LP is slightly different and the song Love Over Gold is missing:
Side 1 (on cassette 1 / LP 1)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Mark Knopfler) - 13:01
- Romeo and Juliet (Mark Knopfler) - 8:17
Side 2 (on cassette 1 / LP 1)
- Expresso Love (Mark Knopfler) - 5:45
- Private Investigations (Mark Knopfler) - 7:34
- Sultans of Swing (Mark Knopfler) - 10:54
Reviews
The critics praised the live album, also in direct comparison with the later On the Night , for example the magazine Audio : “The double CD Alchemy - Live is a more vital concert canned than On the Night - the elegiac local hero theme is very nice Going Home . "
Charts and chart placements
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Other participating musicians
- Saxophone : Mel Collins
- Percussion : Joop de Korte
- Keyboard: Tommy Mandel
Individual evidence
- ^ Dire Straits - Alchemy - Dire Straits Live. austriancharts.at, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Target CD / Dire Straits: Alchemy - Dire Straits Live (V004). Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ criticism. In: Audio , Issue 03–04
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: AT [DVD -132209 CH] UK