Regarded by his peers as one of the world’s top guitarists, he’s played on over 450 albums and toured with an impressive list of the world’s greatest artists think of a name and Phil has probably played with that artist. Listening again now, the momentum of a band firing on all cylinders is unbroken, from the opening moments of “Once Upon A Time In The West” to the valedictory “Going Home. Dire Straits, an English quartet led by singer songwriter Mark Knopfler, plays tight, spare mixtures of rock, folk and country music with a serene spirit and witty irony. Phil joined Dire Straits in 1990 and played on the band’s On Every Street record and world tour and on the On the Night live album. Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records worldwide and by Warner Bros. Saturday, he remembered, had been a good night – so that’s what was used for the Alchemy release. After two epic performances, the recordings of both were delivered to Knopfler at his home, but he was too exhausted from touring to listen to them.
When Dire Straits gathered at Hammersmith Odeon, they were at the end of an extensive European tour that had included another London date at the Dominion Theater two nights earlier. He completed the soundtrack to Bill Forsyth’s charming comedy Local Hero and won an Ivor Novello Award in the process for its “Going Home” theme. There are actually two studio recorded versions of this song: the album version which is 6:58 seconds, and the shorter version which is 6:05 seconds and. As this writer observed in the liner notes for the 2010 reissue of Alchemy, the London performances followed a period of solo endeavours in which Mark Knopfler laid the groundwork for the solo career he follows with such distinction today. 'Brothers in Arms' is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the last track on the album of the same name.
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