Tracce: / Tracklist: Telegraph Road - 0:00 Private Investigations - 14:16 Industrial Disease - 21:01 Love over Gold - 26:54 It Never Rains - 33:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITA Artista Dire Straits Tipo album Studio Pubblicazione 20 settembre 1982 Durata 41 min : 12 s Dischi 1 Tracce 5 Genere Rock and roll Rock Rock progressivo Etichetta Warner Bros. Records, Vertigo Records, Mercury Records Produttore Mark Knopfler Registrazione giugno 1982 ai Power Station di New York Mark Knopfler - chitarra solista e voce Hal Lindes - chitarra ritmica John Illsley - basso Pick Withers - batteria Alan Clark - tastiere altri musicisti: Mike Mainieri - vibrafono e marimba nei brani Private Investigations e Love over Gold Ed Walsh - sintetizzatore Love over Gold è un album dei Dire Straits registrato nel giugno 1982 ai Power Station di New York. Con circa 10 milioni di copie vendute, è uno dei dischi di maggior successo dei Dire Straits ed è spesso considerato uno degli album migliori nella produzione della band di Mark Knopfler. Telegraph Road è un lungo brano rock che caratterizza l'album con il suo assolo di chitarra. Il singolo di lancio in Europa, Private Investigations, è invece un brano ricco di sperimentazione: Mark Knopfler registra e fa mixare nel brano il rumore della sua camminata, di una monetina che gira su un tavolo e di un bicchiere che si rompe. L'album è strutturato come Wish You Were Here dei Pink Floyd (si notino i tempi delle singole tracce e la posizione della canzone che dà il titolo all'album) pur non essendo le tre tracce centrali un ponte tra quella iniziale e quella finale. La copertina dell'album raffigura un lampo di tuono nel buio della notte. Il videoclip di Love over Gold è stato il primo mai trasmesso in Italia, e comparve per la prima volta nella trasmissione Mister Fantasy di Carlo Massarini. Tutte le canzoni sono scritte da Mark Knopfler. (fonte: Wikipedia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENG Studio album by Dire Straits Released 20 September 1982 Recorded 8 March-11 June 1982 Genre Progressive rock, rock Length 40 min : 59 s Label Vertigo, Warner Bros. Producer Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler -- guitar, vocals Alan Clark -- organ, piano, synthesizer John Illsley -- bass Hal Lindes -- rhythm guitar Pick Withers -- drums other musicians: Mike Mainieri -- marimba, vibraphone on 2 and 4 Ed Walsh -- synthesizer Love Over Gold is the fourth album by British rock band Dire Straits. Due to its lengthy atmospheric instrumental passages, the album has been cited as the band's foray into progressive rock. "Private Investigations" was released as the lead single from the album in Europe, which reached #2 in the UK. "Industrial Disease" was, instead, the lead single in USA, only reaching #75 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. In 1986, Love Over Gold had sold 4.4 million copies in Europe, whereas the album had only reached gold status in the United States by that stage. It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world on Vertigo Records outside the US and in 2000 in the United States. The remastered CD also features slightly altered cover art; the album title is rendered underneath the band name, both in larger type, rather than arranged across the top. The image of lightning is also somewhat zoomed in and made brighter, making for a more purple colour. It is the only remastered Dire Straits CD with altered cover art. The album was the last on which drummer Pick Withers played. "Private Dancer", a song originally planned for the album, was recorded by the band except for the vocals. Mark Knopfler decided that a female voice would be more appropriate and handed the song to Tina Turner for her comeback album of the same name. "The Way It Always Starts", another song written during the Love Over Gold sessions, ended up on Knopfler's soundtrack to the film Local Hero with vocals sung by Gerry Rafferty. "Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts" was cut from the album, released in the UK as a B-side, and subsequently released in the U.S. as the fourth track on the ExtendedancEPlay EP. Many guitars were used by Mark Knopfler on the album: these included four Schecter Stratocasters (two red, one blue and one sunburst), a black Schecter Telecaster, an Ovation classical guitar on Private Investigations and Love Over Gold, a custom Erlewine Automatic on Industrial Disease and his 1937 National steel guitar on Telegraph Road. Ovation twelve- and six-string acoustics appear on the album. Knopfler's sunburst Fender Telecaster, his pair of red Fender Stratocasters, his red Gibson Les Paul special and his Gibson ES-175 were also present at the recording of the album, but it is unknown whether or not they were used. All songs written by Mark Knopfler. (source: Wikipedia)

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