PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS - THE BEST OF DIRE STRAITS & MARK KNOPFLER
 
Artist Dire Straits
Release date 2007
Recording Basing Street Studios, London UK, 13th February 1978 - 5th March 1978 [A2]
Power Station, New York USA / Record Plant, New York, USA, 20th June 1980 - 25th August 1980 [A4, A5]
Power Station, New York, USA, 8th March 1982 - 11th June 1982 [A1, A3, A6]
Power Station, New York, USA, 3rd January 1983 - 23rd January 1983 [B3]
Air Studios, London, UK, January - March 1984 [B5]
 Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies, 2nd November 1984 - 21st December 1984 and 3rd January 1985 - 6th February 1985 [A7, A8, A9, A10, A11]
Air Studios, London UK, November 1990 - May 1991 [B1, B2]
Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, USA / Javelina Recording Studios, Nashville, USA / Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, USA / Air Studios, London, UK / Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland [B4]
Recording studio, Nashville, USA, April 1999 and November 1999 [B7, B8]
Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, USA, 20th January 2002 - 2nd February 2002 & 15th April 2002 - 20th April 2002 [B6]
 Shangri-La studios, Malibu, California, USA, 3rd February 2004 - 16th February 2004 & 23rd February 2004 - 12th March 2004 [B9, B10]
Recording studio, unknown location, various years (All the roadrunning album) [B11]
BBC Building, London, UK, 15th April 1996 (DVD)
Format 2CD & 1DVD
Label Mercury
Cat.no. 0602498482896
Tracks CD 1 (A)
  1. Telegraph road
  2. Sultans of swing
  3. Love over gold
  4. Romeo and Juliet
  5. Tunnel of love
  6. Private investigations
  7. So far away
  8. Money for nothing
  9. Brothers in arms
  10. Walk of life
  11. Your latest trick
Tracks CD 2 (B)
  1. Calling Elvis
  2. On every street
  3. Going home
  4. Darling pretty
  5. The long road
  6. Why aye man
  7. Sailing to Philadelphia
  8. What it is
  9. The trawlerman's song
  10. Boom, like that
  11. All the roadrunning
DVD
  1. Darling pretty
  2. Walk of life
  3. Imelda
  4. Father and son
  5. Golden heart
  6. Rüdiger
  7. Cannibals
  8. Je suis désolé
  9. Last exit to Brooklyn
  10. Romeo and Juliet
  11. Done with Bonaparte
  12. A night in summer long ago
  13. Brothers in arms
  14. Going home
  15. Are we in trouble now
  16. Gravy train
Front & back cover                                   
CD's & DVD
         
 
Additional comments Really great looking box-set featuring the two CD's of the regular 2CD version, along with the DVD A night in London (originally released in 1996 and now part of this 2007 box-set). Box comes with a nice fold-out package and booket.