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Dire Straits have a very special release for a National Album Day
Making Movies is one of my favorite Dire Straits albums. So when there is news of a limited edition special release of it my ears prick up. When released in 1980 it was their third album.
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Dire Straits' seminal album Brothers In Arms is 'a cultural phenomenon' 40 years on
Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms 'summed up the 1980s' and was the ultimate 'everyman' record that just about everyone had a ...
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The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
Dire Straits became a byword for a certain sort ... as the band gathered in New York to record their third album, Making Movies. According to Bicknell, three years of constant work had left ...
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The 5 classic Dire Straits songs that aren't on their No. 1 album 'Brothers in Arms'
The song would remain a staple of Dire Straits’ live set; it featured prominently in an epic version, opening their 1984 live album (see below). “Tunnel of Love” from Making Movies (1980 ...
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3 of the Best Covers of Dire Straits’ 1980 Shakespearean Ballad “Romeo and Juliet”
When Dire Straits was working on their third album, Making Movies, released in 1980, vocalist Mark Knopfler was writing a pensive ballad based on one of William Shakespeare’s most legendary plays.