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Working as a teacher in the Loughton College of London, and, also, writing some rock articles in the Yorkshire Evening Post,<br />
a young amateur guitarist, named Mark Knopfler, decides to put together 120 pounds and record a demo tape with a group of friends.<br />
One of them, John Illsley, gives this tape to a well known talent scout, Charlie Gillet, who was making a radio show called 'Honky Tonk'.<br />
A song called Sultans of Swing is introduced. The rest is history...<br />
By the mid '80s Dire Straits were a platinum band, offering craggy vocals, literate blues-based songs, and sinuous, virtuosic guitar work.<br />
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The album's opening track, 'Down to the Waterline', marks a confident and musically assured start to the album with it's striking introduction,<br />
and the album, on release, was also noted for the single 'Sultans of Swing', which at first broke a US Top Five early 1979 (being a hit full five<br />
months after the album was released there) and then raised up at #8 in the British charts. In Europe, the album sold four million copies and<br />
in the U.S. it sold two million copies.<br />
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Released: July 1978<br />
Recorded: February 1978 at Basing Street Studios, London<br />
Genre: Rock<br />
Length: 41:34<br />
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Mark Knopfler - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar<br />
John Illsley - Bass, Backing Vocals<br />
David Knopfler - Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals<br />
Pick Withers - Drums<br />
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1. Down to the Waterline - 3:55<br />
2. Water of Love - 5:23<br />
3. Setting Me Up - 3:18<br />
4. Six Blade Knife - 4:10<br />
5. Southbound Again - 2:58<br />
6. Sultans of Swing - 5:47<br />
7. In the Gallery - 6:16<br />
8. Wild West End - 4:42<br />
9. Lions - 5:05
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