This is more than just a concert; it's a musical journey where every note carries the soul of Mark Knopfler and the magic of Dire Straits. The guitar sings a timeless story, bridging the past and present. Pure brilliance!..
Dire Straits was never better than during this period IMHO. An honest, hardworking band with brilliant songs and passionate performances. Thanks for posting!
It’s amazing to see and hear how all those songs had evolved compared to alchemy 3 years later. Boys were experimenting with all of them to see what worked the best at the end. Amazing concert. Thank you DS for posting this !!
Almost every track on Alchemy is from their first four earlier studio albums. Like the live recordings of most bands the sound quality is poor. Alchemy (aka: Dire Straits Live) was recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22-23 July 1983, and was the final two concerts of the 70 stadiums in 20 weeks world-wide Love Over Gold Tour. Alchemy was released in 1984 and sold well so Vertigo then signed them for one more album which was Brothers In Arms which was released in May 1985. Brothers was more commercial and rushed, and by that time they were running short of quality material to record. The sound quality of Brothers is excellent, but musically I consider it lacking the depth of Communique (released 1979) and Love Over Gold (released 1982) which IMO were not rushed and are DS at their best. On a different note, the best live album I have ever heard is Made In Dublin by Aslan. The album is all original material but the CD also includes a cover of Angie (Rolling Stones) and whilst I don't usually like covers or re-works, IMO Aslan's version of Angie has much more feeling than the original. Search YT for "Aslan - Made in Dublin, Live At Vicar Street". Well worth a listen !
What a fantastic drummer. Holds everything together. Awesome band display. Mark is so on to it. A great concert to have for history one of the greatest bands of the modern era.
So glad to see a Dire Straits video when they were still relatively the " new kids on the block" . One of my favorite bands growing up in the best era of rock 'n' roll . Thank you.
@@Steve-ih7dgSo sorry for my late reply Steve. The second performance I was referring to was the video uploaded just prior to this on the official Dire Straits youtube channel, namely the live recording of Tunnel of Love from the Old Grey Whistle Test. This incarnation of the band, with Mark, John, Pick, Alan and Hal is my favourite. After Pick left, their drum sound in live performances lost something and became too bombastic for my liking. This incarnation just had much more subtlety and restraint, and just sounded better overall imho. But each to their own I guess. All the best, and again sorry for not getting back sooner.
What a great period in time this was! As if it was yesterday. Still playing these songs on the turntable. Nothing has changed 😉. So happy with this concert today. Thank you Dire Straits.
What a version of 'News'!!! They lifted it way beyond the studio version - and how great for us to hear the beginnings of what would become a key section of Private Investigations.
Дякую, Марк!!! Ми Тебе слухали тоді, в часи москово-совєтської окупації.. Важко було знайти і зловити Вас на радіочастотах, бо совєтська нечисть глушила.. Зараз маємо Велику Війну знову з дикими кassabs.. тому.. не до музики.. Опісля Перемоги, коли позариваємо окупантів і відбудуємо Міста, то почнемо слухати і кайфувати знову.. Наразі треба перезаряджати і очищувати Землю від московської нечисті. А Ти - Твори!!!! І Дякуємо Тобі/Вам за Геніальні Творіння!!!!!! ❤
Great to discover a live version of Sultans of Swing with a solo somehow "in between" the record version and that epic versions with saxophone later on
This concert was not long after Hal and Alan joined the band. There is a structure in the Sultans’ solo that does bear some similarities to what we have heard in all its glory in Alchemy. Interesting to see the development over three years as they spent more time playing together. I’ve got to say they’re already pretty tight as a band at this point. There’s a good reason many fans like myself think the 1980-84 lineup was the best.
Mark Knopfler is a very talented musician. I admire his solo career including the movie soundtracks he's done. Mark was Dire Straits. Thanks for sharing.
The person who put this together needs to take a bow! I was 16 when this happened and was already into DS... ...But,eventually /I could finally buy the records and have something to play them on! But just dreaming of seeing them live. Somehow, years later, my then girlfriend and I managed to\afford/buy tkts for Alchemy Live...With NO IDEA what we're about to witness! OMG! This gig is burnt into my soul/brain! A true ONE-OFF! ) To the person who made this, was amazing to see Pick drumming! - ❤
This is absolutely gold Nice one , One day Am sure we see the Complete Alchemy set on official release, And the complete Live In 85 Which was Recorded & Put out on Tv , The full live in 85 is available on RUclips (I think ) From Australia .
First time listening to the actual group. I've only ever heard of a guitar cover of their Sultans of Swing by Lucas Imbiriba. Enjoying my time, so far. Thank you for uploading this. :D
Наверное,в том же 80-м году я впервые услышал Dire straits на нашей студенческой дискотеке Калининского сельхоза и с тех пор они всегда мо мной по жизни 👍👍👍
1979 conheci a banda Dire Straits com a música " Sultans of Swing, e hoje 1° de Janeiro de 2025 aínda curtindo Mark Knopfler e banda, bons tempos de Dire Straits 👏👏👏👏. From Brazil 🇧🇷
Standing ovations in awe of this concert! Pure magic. Please if one of you that reads my comment was actually there and watched this concert, please share a few words about the experience🙏
I saw them at the Perth Entertainment Centre, Western Australia in 1986. It was their Brothers in Arms tour and they were amazing. Good times 🎸 🎸🎸 Anyone else there with me?
No way?! Thank you so much for this. Wembley ‘85 full show next (in stereo…)?…🙏🏻
Yes! In stereo!!
🎉
❤
Was sich 2025 verändert? Ihr staunt.😊
Nada de stereo...Hay que editar un CD con ese concierto. El 40 aniversario de Brothers in arms puede ser un buen momento
Dire Straits legend is still alive on RUclips and in our DS lovers heart. Thank you so much for sharing this awesome concert.
Great pick withers
This is more than just a concert; it's a musical journey where every note carries the soul of Mark Knopfler and the magic of Dire Straits. The guitar sings a timeless story, bridging the past and present. Pure brilliance!..
Wunderschöne Worte von Ihnen ! So empfinde ich das auch
@@nellyvonloh9896 🙏
@@hamidbrando 🙏
There's nothing else like it @@nellyvonloh9896
Sure.
Dire Straits was never better than during this period IMHO. An honest, hardworking band with brilliant songs and passionate performances. Thanks for posting!
Very interesting transitional period for the band. Songs were just getting lengthier...making movies.
Dire Straits my favorite band. 👍😁😇😊
Me too
Always ❤
By far my favorite band🥰
Também é uma das minhas bandas favoritas.
I heard it was Princess Dianas favorite band too,dont know if its true
It’s amazing to see and hear how all those songs had evolved compared to alchemy 3 years later. Boys were experimenting with all of them to see what worked the best at the end. Amazing concert. Thank you DS for posting this !!
Almost every track on Alchemy is from their first four earlier studio albums. Like the live recordings of most bands the sound quality is poor. Alchemy (aka: Dire Straits Live) was recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22-23 July 1983, and was the final two concerts of the 70 stadiums in 20 weeks world-wide Love Over Gold Tour. Alchemy was released in 1984 and sold well so Vertigo then signed them for one more album which was Brothers In Arms which was released in May 1985. Brothers was more commercial and rushed, and by that time they were running short of quality material to record. The sound quality of Brothers is excellent, but musically I consider it lacking the depth of Communique (released 1979) and Love Over Gold (released 1982) which IMO were not rushed and are DS at their best. On a different note, the best live album I have ever heard is Made In Dublin by Aslan. The album is all original material but the CD also includes a cover of Angie (Rolling Stones) and whilst I don't usually like covers or re-works, IMO Aslan's version of Angie has much more feeling than the original. Search YT for "Aslan - Made in Dublin, Live At Vicar Street". Well worth a listen !
A suggestion for live recordings: Santana LOTUS
Frampton: COMES ALIVE
and Santana lll
@@SaintGomer Great suggestion. I was listening to Santana yesterday. He's amazing !
What a musical history visual and audio document this is!
This is my Christmas present and for all the fans of Dire Straits around the world!
Hi from Brazil 🇧🇷🤘
This concert is certainly one of the pearls of modern music.
this is the best part in universal music history
"News" with a sequence of "Private Investigation"😍
Thank you so much!! What a wonderful christmas gift!! We love you, Dire Straits!!
Still loving Dire Straits all these years to today!
Almost 40 years for me !
Thank you for sharing this! ❤
My favorite concert of all time!
Mark knopfler is not just a guitarist but a great artist.
Mark, du bist einfach nur der Hammer 🙃🙃🙃 unglaublich dein Gitarrenspiel und dann auch noch deine Stimme 🙃🙃🙃 einfach nur wow 🧡💛🧡❤️
He's so high man😊 it must be that feeling of relaxation that came with initial recognition.
Un concert de Dire Straits ça vaut tous les concerts du monde 🌎 ‘ 💌 🎶
Closest I'll get to seeing them live I'll take it
Yeah i was born too late to see them live too
Best band ever, didn't need show off, just make best music
What a fantastic drummer. Holds everything together. Awesome band display. Mark is so on to it. A great concert to have for history one of the greatest bands of the modern era.
So glad to see a Dire Straits video when they were still relatively the " new kids on the block" . One of my favorite bands growing up in the best era of rock 'n' roll . Thank you.
The true Dire Straits🤩
Two of my absolute favourite Dire Straits performances uploaded to their official youtube channel over the past two weeks. Happy days!
Pls tell me what the other one is as I've missed it.
@@Steve-ih7dgSo sorry for my late reply Steve. The second performance I was referring to was the video uploaded just prior to this on the official Dire Straits youtube channel, namely the live recording of Tunnel of Love from the Old Grey Whistle Test. This incarnation of the band, with Mark, John, Pick, Alan and Hal is my favourite. After Pick left, their drum sound in live performances lost something and became too bombastic for my liking. This incarnation just had much more subtlety and restraint, and just sounded better overall imho. But each to their own I guess. All the best, and again sorry for not getting back sooner.
Love the roadie coming in to take over from Mark on the organ bit of Tunnel of Live 🤩
once upon a time 44 years ago there was a great band playing
Love you forever and ever!!You’re the BEST!!❤❤
Omg!!!! Thank you !!!! You just made my day !!!! My month !!! My year !!!! Thank you !!! Oh gos this is amazing !!!
Wow! I can't believe we are getting to see the FULL concert - and in such great quality. Thank you!!
What a great period in time this was! As if it was yesterday. Still playing these songs on the turntable. Nothing has changed 😉. So happy with this concert today. Thank you Dire Straits.
Tunnel of love... What a song!
Poetry! Sheer poetry - and world class musicianship to boot!
My favourite,
Just Amazing ❤
What a version of 'News'!!! They lifted it way beyond the studio version - and how great for us to hear the beginnings of what would become a key section of Private Investigations.
Mark, John e toda banda, nota 10!!
Marvellous concert.
The Very Best !! Thank you for the music Mark and all the Band 🎸☺
Muzyka Dire Straits przenosi mnie w inną rzeczywistość. Kocham tą piękną muzyką i te niesamowite koncerty.❤❤❤❤❤💥🥰
Great music mixes, amazing vocals and fantastic band ! ❤
Gracias por este video
El sabor que le aportaba pick a la banda no se pudo recuperar después que se fue. Alan aportó mucho al sonido también
Uma das melhores de todos os tempos!
I can sit watching and enjoying literally every moment in the video, such a masterpiece.
La colonna sonora della mia gioventù siete stati voi
Wow wow wow I cant believe this.
Thanks so so so much.
I wish you all the Best and a Happy New Year.
Same to you, Friend!!
🙏
Thanks for this late Christmas present ❤🎸
Pick Withers is a fantastic drummer!
The best!
Not one phone on site 🔥🔥💯
Melhor banda e Mark é um gênio!!! ❤👏👏👏👏
Incredible energy, the band on top form, what an incredible experience it must have been to be in a group like this, unbeatable!
Блестящий концерт, музыка, игра. Приятно слушать спустя столько времени. А мне было тогда еще 5 лет. Просто фантастика.
А я только родился))) Если конечно этот концерт прошел не раньше конца февраля )))
Thank you 🙏
Gracias!🎸🙏🎶🪽🇦🇷♥️
Thanks💖🎸🥁 for posting Dire Straits and God Bless you Pure Brilliant Greetings Elisabeth...
Dire Straits rocks!
Totally magnificent ❤
Pick Withers, my favorite Dire Straits drummer
Maravilhoso som tempo muito feliz estava ainda na Escola fantástico já houvia obrigado e parabéns 🙏🙏
Mark got the musical gift , David got the hair , can't have everything
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Дякую, Марк!!!
Ми Тебе слухали тоді, в часи москово-совєтської окупації..
Важко було знайти і зловити Вас на радіочастотах, бо совєтська нечисть глушила..
Зараз маємо Велику Війну знову з дикими кassabs.. тому.. не до музики..
Опісля Перемоги, коли позариваємо окупантів і відбудуємо Міста, то почнемо слухати і кайфувати знову..
Наразі треба перезаряджати і очищувати Землю від московської нечисті.
А Ти - Твори!!!!
І Дякуємо Тобі/Вам за Геніальні Творіння!!!!!! ❤
Great to discover a live version of Sultans of Swing with a solo somehow "in between" the record version and that epic versions with saxophone later on
This concert was not long after Hal and Alan joined the band. There is a structure in the Sultans’ solo that does bear some similarities to what we have heard in all its glory in Alchemy. Interesting to see the development over three years as they spent more time playing together. I’ve got to say they’re already pretty tight as a band at this point. There’s a good reason many fans like myself think the 1980-84 lineup was the best.
Direto de Palmas-TO-Brasil curtindo êste som maravilhoso e relembrando meus tempos de jovem.👍🇧🇷❤
Sultans of Swing, one the best guitar solos ever.
Never heard anyone cover it… it’s one of those too hard baskets
Superb!!! Love Dire Straits dearly!
It's 3'38 in the morning and this concert is a gift of thé magic kings
I'm 60 yrs old and have a boo!
the beginnings of THE SOLO from sultans of swing, later perfected in the Alchemy, IMO. simply sublime
Great album and top music
Mark Knopfler is a very talented musician. I admire his solo career including the movie soundtracks he's done. Mark was Dire Straits. Thanks for sharing.
I have this concert on dvd 😊
This is awesome
The person who put this together needs to take a bow! I was 16 when this happened and was already into DS... ...But,eventually /I could finally buy the records and have something to play them on! But just dreaming of seeing them live. Somehow, years later, my then girlfriend and I managed to\afford/buy tkts for Alchemy Live...With NO IDEA what we're about to witness! OMG! This gig is burnt into my soul/brain! A true ONE-OFF! ) To the person who made this, was amazing to see Pick drumming! - ❤
In all of the concerts I have seen Mark seems to be having so much fun.
lovely Mark🌹
悲しきサルタン❗まさに、悲しきサルタン❗これ以上も、これ‥以下も、有りませんね🎵正に、フラット、0リミット❗感動です。‼️🙏ブラボー❗二フエ～デービル‼️🙏❤🎉😮😢😂😮😮
The best band ever in the world!!!!!!!!❤🎸❤🎶🎸🎶
This is absolutely gold Nice one , One day Am sure we see the Complete Alchemy set on official release, And the complete Live In 85 Which was Recorded & Put out on Tv , The full live in 85 is available on RUclips (I think ) From Australia .
Great band. Awesome drummer.
So great! Thank you! 🙌
Thanks for the concert!!!
First time listening to the actual group. I've only ever heard of a guitar cover of their Sultans of Swing by Lucas Imbiriba. Enjoying my time, so far.
Thank you for uploading this. :D
Наверное,в том же 80-м году я впервые услышал Dire straits на нашей студенческой дискотеке Калининского сельхоза и с тех пор они всегда мо мной по жизни 👍👍👍
Да..вот ещё .. спасибо нашему диск-жокею Геннадию Слизкову за привитый правильный музыкальный вкус.😂🙏
Would love to buy this CD/Blu-ray
1979 conheci a banda Dire Straits com a música " Sultans of Swing, e hoje 1° de Janeiro de 2025 aínda curtindo Mark Knopfler e banda, bons tempos de Dire Straits 👏👏👏👏. From Brazil 🇧🇷
Dire Straits siete i migliori,siete fantastici,siete stellari🤩
The best 👑👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
You rock before I was born
Красота🎉🎉🎉🎉
Красатищща...
Heros never die... they live on in our hearts and our souls.
Thank you Mark for being such a beautiful soul
Me encantan, son intemporales ❤😍
Fantastici! Strabilianti vi adorooooooo👏❤
I am 72. 😂 thank you ! Great memories 😊
Standing ovations in awe of this concert! Pure magic.
Please if one of you that reads my comment was actually there and watched this concert, please share a few words about the experience🙏
I saw them at the Perth Entertainment Centre, Western Australia in 1986. It was their Brothers in Arms tour and they were amazing. Good times 🎸 🎸🎸 Anyone else there with me?
Dire Straits they're always going to be the best group I ever hear. There are still alive . There are unforgettable. I really love it 🎸🎸💯🎸🎸💯💯❤️❤️💞💞💋💋💋
The best of the best! Love you Mark ❤
Fantascienza
Awesome! Thanks for sharing🎸🎶🎤🎤🥁🎹
This was when they were good. Excellent show. No stacks of Marshalls needed for Mark just a nice clean sound and pure technique ❤
Man, real talent, skill, and sound. So great to hear!
MARK E DIRE STRAITS É UM ESPETÁCULO ATEMPORAL...MAGNÍFICO, MARAVILHOSO, EXTASIANTE! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Atemporal! É isso mesmo.
Once upon a time there was band called Dire Straits ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I am 61 still listening.😊
62 here.
Io ho 64 e li seguo da sempre. Dire Straits la band migliore di sempre.
Хороший парень,приятная музыка.❤