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1978
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Dire Straits, according to DoReSol
For this album, Dire Straits gathered much of their repertoire, drawing on demos they had recorded themselves. Songs like "Move It Away," "Real Girl," and "Me & My Friends" were left out of the final cut, as was a rendition of "Nadine," a Chuck Berry classic. It is interesting to note that a song like "What's The Matter, Baby?", written by Mark and David Knopfler, was performed during the album's promotion, although its official release would come later, in 1995, on the album Live at the BBC. The cover art image comes from a painting by Chuck Loyola.
The album underwent a remastering process and was reissued along with the rest of the Dire Straits catalog in 1996 in most of the world, and specifically on September 19, 2000, in the United States. A peculiarity of the original edition of "Sultans of Swing" was that it featured a slightly shorter version, omitting the final seconds of the guitar solo, but the full version was included in the remastered editions. Curiously, some cassette versions reversed the order of the sides, and on the French edition, songs like "Down to the Waterline" and "Wild West End" were even swapped to balance playback time.
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