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  • Dire Straits: Alchemy
  • mikey74
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    Anyone watching on Sky Arts?

    1978
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    Have seen it before, but thanks for the heads up. Now watching again!

    DezB
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    No, I’m only 50.

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    mikey74
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    Thanks for that invaluable contribution dez. Haven’t you got another thread to manifest in?

    mikey74
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    Greatest version of Sultans of Swing ever!!

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Meatloaf on BBC4.

    😉

    DezB
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    😆

    NZCol
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    Stunning, not a fan really but Romeo and Juliet is one of my all time fave songs and this sultans version is epic.

    mikey74
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    The drummer is amazing,

    1978
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    I’m 36, but a childhood of camping holidays in France and northern Spain with a father who was a great fan has left me be the rest of our family with an enormous fondness for them. Knopfler is completely effortless and stunningly good in this.

    Freester
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    My best mate’s father was into this in my formative years and it left a big impression on me.

    Thanks for the heads up it’s being shown again at 3AM so it’s on the Sky+ now.

    mikey74
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    Yeah, top form (the whole band as well).

    Tunnel of Love is a great choon as well.

    1978
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    Superb, one of my favourites. The drummer looks knackered, but really happy!

    burgatedicky
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    Gutted I haven’t got the Sky.
    Was raised on Dire Straits, and fortunately/unfortunately (delete as applicable) most of my iTunes top 20 is their material!

    Will turn on the stereo methinks…

    mikey74
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    The drummer is awesome on the whole thing. he seriously puts everything into it.

    mikey74
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    I think the whole thing is on You Tube burg

    mikey74
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    Telegraph Road!!!! One of my favourites.

    1978
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    It’s a bloody good job my next door neighbour is pretty much deaf!

    kelvin
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    that live version rules…

    mikey74
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    Good work!

    scotroutes
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    I remember seeing them live around that time and being seriously unimpressed. The music was great (maybe too perfect?) but they couldn’t seem to generate any sort of atmosphere that made you want to be there.

    robdob
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    For years I have kept my expensive Sony VCR as I spent ages trying to find Alchemy Live on tape and finally getting it in ebay.
    I’ve been bought it on Blu-Ray since.

    I literally wore out my dads copy of the double tape he had, I am pretty sure if I could keep one album as my desert island disc it would be that one. I know every word and note!

    I kinda like it I suppose. 🙂

    mikey74
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    I had it on double tape, the one with the cardboard sliding sleeve. I played it to death. I also had the VHS that wore out.

    1978
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    +1 I realised that not only did I know every word, but also every note of the guitar parts too!

    mikey74
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    I played along on my acoustic for a while, until social media discussions took over 😳

    leffeboy
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    I think the whole thing is on You Tube burg

    that’s funny as i watched it on YouTube for some reason this week and wondered if it counted as secret pleasure as i quite enjoyed it

    robdob
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    Loads of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler stuff on over this weekend and next week. Sweeeeeeeeet.

    martinhutch
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    I could probably replay the whole album from memory note perfect in my head from beginning to end.

    Yet I can’t remember the names of half my former work colleagues.

    bones
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    Lovely stuff. Got a particular fondness for Tunnel of Love, cos I live in Cullercoats, and before that Whitley Bay 🙂

    djglover
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    39 here and dad was a massive fan, we saw them live in Gateshead in mid 80’s, guess around the release of Brothers in arms, still a huge fan to this day, probably mainly due to the reminisivalue!

    Cougar
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    Ah nuts, wish I’d seen this yesterday. Alchemy popped up on Spotify’s shuffle the other day and I ended up listening to it end-to-end. Still a classic.

    I live in Cullercoats,

    I remember spending time with a mate trying to work out all the lyrics and that one defeated us as we’d never heard of the place; “coloured coats in Whitley Bay? What’s he on about?” It was years later when I actually went to Whitley Bay and saw it on the map, I got all excited that I’d finally worked it out, tried to explain to my OH who just looked at me like I was a mentalist.

    robdob
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    It’s being repeated a few times on Sky Arts 1 over the weekend.
    There is the On Every Street concert on too, as well as a few other docs about Mark Knopfler.

    deadlydarcy
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    Cheers for the heads-up. Downloading from on demand.

    Andy
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    Went to see them live at the NEC on the Sultans of Swing tour courtesy of a free ticket from my sister. Was my first “stadium” large venue concert and I fell asleep 🙁 . Would like to listen to the album again though. 🙂

    ourmaninthenorth
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    +1 guilty pleasure here.

    IanMunro
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    30 years ago 😯
    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6piZuIPAuw[/video]

    mikey74
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    I was 10. I’m not really sure why people refer to them as a “guilty pleasure”. Since when should you feel guilty about liking a band made of talented musicians playing well written music?

    kiwijohn
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    Hear Hear.

    RustySpanner
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    🙂

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpP0y_9ikC0[/video]

    Still amazes me how good they are.
    Brilliant songs, played with love by great musicians.

    DezB
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    talented musicians playing well written music?

    Ooh, wow. I’m sold! 😆

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