Dire Straits

Numbered special edition hybrid SACD in replica LP gatefold sleeve. Comes with lyric booklet. Track durations do not appear on artwork. SACD and Redbook CD audio durations match within 1 second for all tracks.

Record Store Day limited edition with OBI Strip. Jacket's done with metallic foil printing technique.
Consequently the flash on the front sleeve is "silverish" compare to original white color on the first pressings or most of the reissues.The record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering.
The artisan process results in cuts that have superior high frequency response (treble) and very solid stable stereo images.
In short, a very high quality master that helps to create a very high quality record.

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). They were active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1991 to 1995. The band became one of the world's best-selling music artists, with album sales of over 100 million. This Japanese SHM-SACD collection features DSD Transfer from analogue master tapes.

There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler's muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response.

On June 17, the UMC/EMI label will reissue Money For Nothing, the first Dire Straits greatest hits collection (featuring songs from the band’s first five albums), which was originally released in October 1988.

"Dire Straits" is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced the hit single "Sultans of Swing", which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached #1 on album charts in Germany, Australia and France, #2 in the United States and #5 in the United Kingdom. "Dire Straits" was later certified double-platinum in both the United States and the United Kingdom.