Mp3 music: Dire Straits

Artist: Dire Straits: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock Pop Rock: Pop-Rock Pop: Pop-Rock Other     Dire Straits's discography:      The Ragpickers Dream    Year: 2002    Tracks: 12      The Notting Hillbillies: Live At Ronnie Scott    Year: 1999    Tracks: 12      Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits    Year: 1998    Tracks: 16      Sultans Of Swing Limited Edition    Year: 1998    Tracks: 7      Walk On Stage (Live)    Year: 1995    Tracks: 11      Live At The BBC    Year: 1995    Tracks: 8      On The Night    Year: 1993    Tracks: 10      Heavy Fuel (CD 2)    Year: 1992    Tracks: 7      Heavy Fuel (CD 1)    Year: 1992    Tracks: 8      Heavy Fuel    Year: 1992    Tracks: 7      Heavy Fuel    Year: 1992    Tracks: 8      Walk On Stage    Year: 1991    Tracks: 11      Straits To The Point CD2    Year: 1991    Tracks: 9      Straits To The Point (Point Depot, Dublin) (CD 2)    Year: 1991    Tracks: 9      Straits To The Point (Point Depot, Dublin) (CD 1)    Year: 1991    Tracks: 8      On Every Street    Year: 1991    Tracks: 12      Sons Of Light [EP]    Year: 1990    Tracks: 9      Money For Nothing    Year: 1988    Tracks: 12      Mandela (Live)    Year: 1988    Tracks: 9      Mandela    Year: 1988    Tracks: 9      Texan Sunset CD2    Year: 1985    Tracks: 5      Texan Sunset CD1    Year: 1985    Tracks: 8      Brothers In Arms    Year: 1985    Tracks: 9      Brothers In Arms    Year: 1985    Tracks: 9      Around South America    Year: 1985    Tracks: 8      Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (CD 2)    Year: 1984    Tracks: 5      Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (CD 1)    Year: 1984    Tracks: 6      Alchemy    Year: 1984    Tracks: 10      Goin' Home    Year: 1983    Tracks: 7      Extended Dance Play    Year: 1983    Tracks: 5      Love Over Gold    Year: 1982    Tracks: 5      Once Upon A Time    Year: 1981    Tracks: 7      Making Movies    Year: 1980    Tracks: 7      Rotterdam    Year: 1978    Tracks: 11      Dire Straits    Year: 1978    Tracks: 9 Dire Straits emerged during the post-punk earned play average of the late '70s, and spell their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to punk. If anything, the band was a leading offshoot of the roots revivalism of public house rock, only where pothouse rock confect far-famed good times, Dire Straits were black gall. Led by guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, the group reinforced their good upon the mellow blues-rock of J.J. Cale, just they also had malarkey and nation inflections, once in a while dipping into the epic song structures of progressive reel. The band's music was counterbalance by Knopfler's lyrics, which approximated the wandering, stream-of-conscious narratives of Bob Dylan. As their vocation progressed, Dire Straits became more refined and their newfangled matureness happened to coincide with the rise of MTV and the compress disc. These deuce melodic revolutions from the mid-'80s helped make Dire Straits' sixth album, Brothers in Arms, an external megahit. The band -- along with Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, and Steve Winwood -- become one of the leadership of a group of self-consciously age vet stone & rollers in the early '80s that designed their music to appeal to senescence babe boomers. Despite the band's external achiever, they couldn't confirm their stardom, hold off a full six long time to present a follow-up to Brothers in Arms, by which sentence their consultation had shrunk significantly. Knopfler (natural August 12, 1949) was constantly the independent force behind Dire Straits. The son of an architect, Knopfler studied English literature at Leeds University and worked concisely as a rock critic for the Yorkshire Evening Post spell at college. He began education English after his gradation, starring a pothouse rock band called Brewer's Droop at nox. By 1977, Mark was playacting with his brother David (guitar) and his roomie John Illsley (bass). During the summer of 1977, the trinity cut a demo with drummer Pick Withers. A London DJ named Charlie Gillett heard the demonstration and began playing "Sultans of Swing" on his BBC show Whitey Tonkin'. Following a enlistment possible action for Talking Heads, the band began recording their debut for Vertigo Records with producer Muff Winwood in early 1978. By the summer, they had gestural with Warner in America, cathartic their eponymous debut in the fall. Thanks to the Top Ten shoot "Sultans of Swing," Fearful Straits was a major achiever in both Britain and America, with the individual and album climb into the Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic. Fearful Straits accomplished Dire Straits as a major violence on album-oriented radio in America, and their moment album, Dispatch (1979), consolidated their consultation, selling three zillion copies world-wide. As the group was recording its one-third album, Knopfler left the isthmus to prosecute a solo career; he was replaced by former Darling member Hal Lindes. Like its harbinger, Qualification Movies was a healthy impinge on in America and Britain, even though the lot was criticized for musically treading body of water. Nevertheless, the record went gold on the effectiveness of the radio and MTV hits "Romeo and Juliet" and "Skateaway." Dire Straits followed the album two eld later with Love Over Gold, an album filled with long, experimental passages, summation the single "Private Investigations," which became a number two strike in the U.K. The album went gold in America and exhausted four weeks at turn unrivaled in Britain. Shortly subsequently the departure of Sexual love Over Gold, former Rockpile drummer Terry Williams replaced Withers. During 1982, Knopfler began exploring musical avenues outside of Dire Straits, marking the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero and playing on Van Morrison's Beautiful Vision. Apart from cathartic the Twisting by the Pool EP early in 1983, Dire Straits were quiet for the legal age of 1983 and 1984, as Knopfler produced Bob Dylan's Infidels, as well as Aztec Camera and Willy DeVille; he also wrote "Private Dancer for Tina Turner's retort album. In the spring of 1984, the striation released the double album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live and by the end of the year, they had begun recording their one-fifth studio apartment album with their new keyboardist, Guy Fletcher. Released in the summer of 1985, Brothers in Arms was Dire Straits' discovery album, fashioning the band external stars. Supported by the groundbreaking computer-animated video for "Money for Nothing," a song which mocked euphony videos, the album became a blockbuster, expenditure club weeks at the top of the American charts and selling over 9 million copies; in England, the album became the biggest-selling album of the '80s. "Walk of Life" and "So Far Away" unbroken Brothers in Arms in the charts through 1986, and Dire Straits played over 200 dates in reinforcement of the album. Once the tour was completed, Dire Straits went on reprieve for several eld, as Knopfler produced records by Randy Newman and Joan Armatrading, scored films, toured with Eric Clapton, and recorded a duo album with Chet Atkins (Neck and Neck, 1990). In 1989, he formed the country-rock mathematical group Notting Hillbillies, whose sole album, Wanting...Presumed Having a Good Time, became a British hit upon its bounce 1990 press release. During the extended time off, John Illsley recorded his second album; the showtime appeared in 1984. In 1990, Knopfler reconvened Dire Straits, which straightaway featured Illsley, Clark, Fletcher, and diverse session musicians. The band released On Every Street in the fall of 1991 to gravid expectation. However, the album failed to meet expectations -- it only went pt in America and it didn't crack the U.K. Top 40 -- and failed to generate a hit single. Similarly, the tour was a dashing hopes, with many tickets going unsold in both the U.S. and Europe. Once the tour was completed, the live album On the Night was released in the spring of 1993 and the striation over again went on foramen. In 1996, Knopfler launched his solo life history with Golden Heart.

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