Dire Straits - Live 1978-1992 - 8CD Box set (CD)

Dire Straits Live 1978-1992 is an 8 CD box set featuring:

- Newly remastered versions of Alchemy and On The Night, both of which are currently unavailable on vinyl (Alchemy was last pressed in the mid-eighties, On The Night was last pressed for the original release in 1993).

- An expanded version of the original 2LP of Alchemy to include the existing digital/CD tracklist which includes ‘Love Over Gold’ and the extended versions of ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Solid Rock’ and ‘Going Home’, with the addition of ‘Portobello Belle’ (released on the Money For Nothing compilation in 1998) as well as the unreleased songs from the performance – ‘Industrial Disease’ and ‘Twisting By The Pool’.

An expanded version of the original 2LP of On The Night to include tracks performed during the tour which have never been released, taken from multitrack recordings of shows in Nimes, Rotterdam and Paris: ‘Tunnel Of Love, ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Sultans Of Swing’, ‘Two Young Lovers’, ‘When it Comes To You’, ‘I Think I Love You Too Much’.

- Encores on black vinyl (remastered for Black Friday 2021)

- Licenced 1995 collection Live At The BBC

- The unreleased Dire Straits Live from the Rainbow Theatre show, 1979 – mixed by Guy Fletcher

- 16 page booklet featuring a new extensive research essay by journalist & broadcaster Paul Sexton – ‘Making Milestones: The Momentous Road Years Of Dire Straits’ – plus, photographs from their many years on the road.