Dire Straits : Dire Straits Live 1978 – 1992 (12LP Box Set)

Box set focusing on the live recordings of Dire Straits, released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of their show at Hammersmith in 1983, immortalised in the live album ‘Alchemy’. The set features newly remastered versions of ‘Alchemy’ and ‘On the Night’, an expanded version of ‘Alchemy’ featuring the existing digital/CD tracklist which includes ‘Love Over Gold’ and the extended versions of ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Solid Rock’ and ‘Going Home’, with the addition of the full-length performance of ‘Portobello Belle’ (an edit of which was released on the ‘Money for Nothing’ compilation in 1998) as well as the unreleased songs from the performance – ‘Industrial Disease’ and ‘Twisting By the Pool’; An expanded version of ‘On the Night’ includes tracks performed during the tour which have never been released, taken from multitrack recordings of shows in Nimes, Rotterdam and Paris: ‘Tunnel Of Love’, ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Sultans of Swing’,