Dire Straits - Dire Straits [CD@320kB/s] BeLight

Working as a teacher in the Loughton College of London, and, also, writing some rock articles in the Yorkshire Evening Post,
a young amateur guitarist, named Mark Knopfler, decides to put together 120 pounds and record a demo tape with a group of friends.
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'.
A song called Sultans of Swing is introduced. The rest is history...
By the mid '80s Dire Straits were a platinum band, offering craggy vocals, literate blues-based songs, and sinuous, virtuosic guitar work.
The album's opening track, 'Down to the Waterline', marks a confident and musically assured start to the album with it's striking introduction,
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
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
in the U.S. it sold two million copies.
Released: July 1978
Recorded: February 1978 at Basing Street Studios, London
Genre: Rock
Length: 41:34
Mark Knopfler - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar
John Illsley - Bass, Backing Vocals
David Knopfler - Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals
Pick Withers - Drums
1. Down to the Waterline - 3:55
2. Water of Love - 5:23
3. Setting Me Up - 3:18
4. Six Blade Knife - 4:10
5. Southbound Again - 2:58
6. Sultans of Swing - 5:47
7. In the Gallery - 6:16
8. Wild West End - 4:42
9. Lions - 5:05