This is the Dutch Edition of Dire Straits 4th full-length album "Love Over Gold". This Dutch release has black record label with Vertigo "mushrooms" logo and with white lettering. Other release may have an orange label with black lettering.
The recording of "Love Over Gold" introduced two new musicians to record with "Dire Straits", namely: Alan Clark ( Keyboards ), Hal Lindes ( Guitar ). Oe of the guitars used by "Mark Knopfler" was a "Erlewine Automatic". The track "Private Dancer" was originally written for this album, however Knopfler decided it would better fit to "Tina Turner" ( who turned it into a world-hit ).
Note: the "Erlewine Automatic" is a hand-made guitar made by "Mark Erlewine" from Austin, Texas, who also built the Lazer guitar for Johnny Winter.
This album includes the original custom inner sleeve with complete lyrics of all songs performed by the "Dire Straits" and production/recording details
Mark Knopfler.
Robert "Bob" Ludwig at Masterdisk
Bob Ludwig is an experienced and well-known mastering engineer, he has mastered thousands of music records. He has been vice-president of Sterling Sound, vice-president and chief engineer at Masterdisk and in 1993 owned his own mastering
Michael Rowe
Classic Rock, Pop-Rock
Vertigo – 6359 109
Record Format: 12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record
Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 230 gram
1982 Netherlands
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This is the discography of "Dire Straits" international album releases, it is ordered by name of the album. Between the parenthesis is the name of the country in which the album was released.