Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Dire Straits - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, Britain, 6-20-1992

Here's a very nice complete Dire Straits concert from 1992. It's the third and last BBC album I have for them.

Dire Straits became superstars with their 1985 album "Brothers in Arms." It went on to sell thirty million copies, making it one of the top 30 best selling albums of all time. After a long tour to support that album, band leader Mark Knoplfer was exhausted by all the pressures of stardom and took a few years off. Dire Straits came back with a studio album in late 1991, "On Every Street." It was a relative disappointment, selling "only" five million. But still, most musical acts would kill for those kinds of numbers.

Another big worldwide tour followed, lasting a full year, until October 1992. The BBC recorded them while they stopped by Britain. This album is unreleased, but the sound quality and performance is excellent. After the tour ended, the band broke up for good, except for a handful of reunion shows.

As an aside, the opening act for this concert was Lyle Lovett. That was broadcast on the BBC as well, and I plan on posting that eventually.

The album is two hours and two minutes long.

01 Calling Elvis (Dire Straits)
02 Walk of Life (Dire Straits)
03 Heavy Fuel (Dire Straits)
04 Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits)
05 The Bug (Dire Straits)
06 Private Investigations (Dire Straits)
07 Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
08 Your Latest Trick (Dire Straits)
09 On Every Street (Dire Straits)
10 Two Young Lovers (Dire Straits)
11 Telegraph Road (Dire Straits)
12 Money for Nothing (Dire Straits)
13 Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits)
14 Solid Rock (Dire Straits)
15 Going Home [Theme from 'Local Hero'] [Instrumental] (Dire Straits)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MqTvgX6s

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aM50zEJMNfqiwu2/file

The cover photo of band leader Mark Knopfler is from this exact concert.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for this. I had a chance to see DS on this tour but the wife was pregnant and I decided not to go without her. Bummer...

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