The first leg of the tour promoted their first single, " Sultans of Swing". These concerts presented Dire Straits with their largest audiences to that date. The European tour included concerts in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The Dire Straits Fender logo, which appears on the back cover, was designed by Geoff Halpern.ĭire Straits promoted the release of their first single and album with the Dire Straits Tour, which started on 6 June 1978 at the Lafayette Club in Wolverhampton, included 55 shows, ending on 18 November 1978 at the College of Education in Hitchin. The album cover artwork is designed by Hothouse, who commissioned the cover painting from Chuck Loyola. and on 19 September 2000 in the United States. The album was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 to most of the world excluding the U.S. " Sultans of Swing" was re-released as a single in the UK in November 1988 to promote the greatest hits compilation Money for Nothing, released in October that year. " Water of Love" was also released as a single in some countries, and charted in Australia, reaching number 54, and in the Netherlands, reaching number 28. The first single released was " Sultans of Swing" which first broke into the United States top five early in the spring of 1979, becoming a hit a full five months after the album was released there, and then reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart. The album was released in the US on 20 October 1978. The album was produced by Muff Winwood, and engineered by Rhett Davies,assisted by Greg Cobb David played a black Fender Stratocaster and a Harmony Sovereign acoustic guitar. ![]() ![]() He also used a black Telecaster Thinline (serial number 226254) on " Setting Me Up". He played his 1938 National Style O 14 fret guitar (serial number B1844) on "Water of Love" and "Wild West End". Knopfler used a few guitars for the recording, including a pair of red Fender Stratocasters-one from 1961 (serial number 68354) and one from 1962 (serial number 80470). Dire Straits was recorded at Basing Street Studios in London from 13 February to 5 March 1978.
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