![]() The video has been painstakingly restored from the original film"-Distributor website. Demonstrating faultless musicianship, this is a true recording of excerpts of one Dire Straits performance, containing no re-recording or overdubs of any kind. Featuring the seminal hits Sultans Of Swing and Romeo and Juliet plus unique encore performances of the Ivor Novello Award-winning Going Home from the soundtrack to the film Local Hero. ![]() This phenomenal sales history and critical acclaim has solidified Alchemy as one of the most revered live recordings of all time. It’s interesting because when I do shows now, the audience is full of all different ages, from sort of teenagers up to my age. Our musical tastes developed in sync with Dire Straits albums, growing as your music evolved. By the time it reached us we were in senior school or college. The strong Australian association does not stop there - the cover image is taken from a work by Brett Whiteley. Returning to the albums, Slow Train Coming and the albums that followed it are notable for the all-star assistance that Dylan received in putting them together. First album, 1978, we were in Class VIII. ![]() In Australia, the album reached the twenty-second position of the best selling albums of 1984. It debuted in the UK Top 3, and spent all but one week of its first seven months in the top 40 and went on, in the afterglow of Brothers In Arms to spend more than three years in the top 100. Alchemy: Live by Dire Straits "Alchemy was a double live album originally released 12th March 1984 with accompanying VHS.
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