![]() ![]() So here's the first.ĭire Straits don't have a lot of stray tracks. ‘Twisting By The Pool’ is on Sultans Of Swing - The Very Best Of Dire Straits, which can be bought here.There are lots of great musical artists I haven't posted anything for yet. A new stage production of the story, with new music and songs by Knopfler, opens at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in March 2019. March 1983 saw the release of his first soundtrack, for the much-loved Bill Forsyth-directed comedy-drama Local Hero. ![]() 14 two weeks later, only the band’s fourth UK top 20 hit.īy the time the single and EP were ending their chart runs, a new chapter was beginning in Knopfler’s personal musical development. 24, the second-highest arrival of the week and one place behind U2’s ‘New Year’s Day.’ ‘Pool’ peaked at No. Its success there was helped no end by the fact that MTV added the video for ‘Pool’ to their rotation in early February.īut in the UK, the exuberant, rock ‘n’ roll-flavoured lead track was a single in its own right. In America, the four-song collection was called Twisting By The Pool and, described as a “mini-album,” qualified for the LP chart. The song was part of Dire Straits’ live sets as early as 1979, when the New Musical Express namechecked it in a review of the band’s gig at Whitla Hall, in Queens University, Belfast it was also a fixture on the Love Over Gold tour of 1982-83. ‘Twisting By The Pool’ had already been around for a long time. ![]() These sessions were the band’s first without drummer Pick Withers, who left after the Love Over Gold recordings and was replaced by Terry Williams. The EP featured three new songs on the international edition, also including ‘ Two Young Lovers‘ and ‘ If I Had You.’ The US version added a fourth, ‘Badgers, Posters, Stickers, T-Shirts,’ all of them, as ever, Mark Knopfler compositions. ![]()
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