What is the best live album by Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler?
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Live Albums By Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
It’s useful to be reminded of the timing of the studio albums before looking in detail at the live albums.
Studio Albums By Dire Straits
1978 Dire Straits
1979 Communique
1980 Making Movies
1982 Love over Gold
1985 Brothers in Arms
1991 On Every Street
Studio Albums By Mark Knopfler
1996 Golden Heart
2000 Sailing to Philadelphia
2002 The Ragpicker’s Dream
2004 Shangri-La
2005 One Take Radio Sessions
2007 Kill to Get Crimson
2009 Get Lucky
2012 Privateering
2015 Tracker
Mark Knopler has also been asked to write a lot of soundtrack albums for films:
1983 Local Hero
1984 Cal
1984 Comfort and Joy
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 Last Exit to Brooklyn
1998 Wag the Dog
1999 Metroland
2002 A Shot at Glory
Knopfler has also had a few side projects with other artists:
1990 with The Notting Hillbillies – Missing…Presumed Having a Good Time
1990 with Chet Atkins Neck and Neck
2006 with Emmylou Harris All the Roadrunning
Live Albums By Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
1978 Live At The BBC
1983 Alchemy
1992 On The Night
2006 with Emmylou Harris Real Live Roadrunning
Buying Albums By Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
You can get these albums from Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk.
The Best Live Albums Of All Time
Please vote in the poll to find the best classic rock live albums.
Because there are so many excellent classic rock live albums I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.
You can get these albums from Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk.
Dire Straits Live At The BBC 1978
Live At The BBC is a live album by Dire Straits.
The first seven songs on this album were recorded for a BBC Live in Concert radio broadcast on 22 July 1978. The eighth and final song comes from a performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test on 31 January 1981. It wasn’t released until June 1995.
While this is the earliest of the three Dire Straits live albums, it was the last to be released. Since then Mark Knopfler has pursued a solo career.
Dire Straits Live At The BBC
Dire Straits On The Night 1992
On The Night is a live album by Dire Straits.
It was recorded at Nîmes in France and Rotterdam in Holland in May 1992 while the group were promoting their final studio album On Every Street.It was released in May 1993.
Their first live album, Alchemy built on the success of the first four very goo studio albums. Then came the over-rated but immensely popular Brothers In Arms in 1985 and then a long wait before On Every Street was released in September 1991.
By then Dire Straits had lost their “coolness” if that’s the right word for what made them special. The On The Night live album has slipped into almost obscurity… an afterthought.
Dire Straits On The Night
Set List
- Calling Elvis – 10:25 (on the album On Every Street)
- Walk of Life – 5:06 (Brothers In Arms)
- Heavy Fuel – 5:23 (On Every Street)
- Romeo and Juliet – 10:05 (Making Movies)
- Private Investigations – 9:43 (Love Over Gold)
- Your Latest Trick – 5:35 (Brothers In Arms)
- On Every Street – 7:01 (On Every Street)
- You and Your Friend – 6:48 (On Every Street)
- Money for Nothing – 6:28 (Brothers In Arms)
- Brothers in Arms – 8:54 (Brothers In Arms)
Four songs from On Every Street and four more from Brothers In Arms means that there are only two of their old classics that were also on Alchemy featured. It’s a shame that more songs weren’t added when the album was remastered to make it more representative of their concerts.
The band at this stage was:
Mark Knopfler – lead guitar, lead vocals
Phil Palmer – guitar, backing vocals
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
Chris White – saxophone, flute, backing vocals
Alan Clark – keyboards
Guy Fletcher – keyboards, backing vocals
John Illsley – bass guitar, backing vocals
Chris Whitten – drums
Danny Cummings – percussion, backing vocals
This is a highly professional band and I particularly like the addition of saxophone and flute to the songs but then I do have a bias this way.
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Buying On Every Night
To help you to find the album quickly and easily, I’ve given you the following links:
- Amazon.com as a CD or mp3
- Amazon.co.uk as a CD or mp3
- iTunes as a digital download
- eBay as a CD
It’s still worth checking around on the websites to make sure that there isn’t a more up-to-date or less expensive option.
What Do You Think?
Do you think this album is the best live album by Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler?
What do you like or dislike about it?
The Best Live Albums Ever
This album is NOT included in the poll to find the best classic rock live albums but Alchemy is. Do you think On The Knight should be there as well?
My aim is to help you to find the best live albums through readers polls, my own reviews and from bringing in Amazon reviews.
You can see the complete list of readers polls at Live Album Polls.
Dire Straits Alchemy 1983
Alchemy is the first live album released by Dire Straits.
It was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on the 22nd and 23rd July 1983. It was released in March 1984.
Dire Straits may not have the best image in the 2010s but listening to this excellent album shows why they were so popular in the 1980s.