DIRE STRAITS
 
Artist Dire Straits
Release date 1981
Recording Basing Street Studios, London UK, 13th February 1978 - 5th March 1978 [A1, A3, A6, B3, B4, B5]
Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, 28th November 1978 - 22nd December 1978 [A2, A4, A5. B1, B2]
Format 1LP
Label AMIGA
Cat.no. 8 55 833
Tracks side A
  1. Down to the waterline
  2. Single handed sailer
  3. Setting me up
  4. Once upon a time in the west
  5. Angel of mercy
  6. Southbound again
Tracks side B
  1. Lady writer
  2. News
  3. Water of love
  4. Sultans of swing
  5. Six blade knife
Front and back cover
                        
 
Additional comments This is a compilation album of the first two Dire Straits albums Dire Straits and Communiqué. Released on the AMIGA label. AMIGA was a record label for popular music of the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin (former East Germany), a state-owned record company having the monopoly on record production.