SCREENPLAYING
 
Artist Mark Knopfler
Release date 4th October 1993
Recording Air Studios, London, UK, January 1984 - March 1984 [1-5]
 Studios, 1989 [6-8]
 Studios, 1987 [9-13]
Power Station, New York, USA, 26th July 1982 - 13th August 1982 [14-18]
Utopia / Eden Studios, London, UK, 19th August - 13th September 1982 [14-18]
Power Station, New York, USA, 3rd January 1983 - 24th January 1983 [14-18]
Format 1DCC
Label Vertigo
Cat.no. 518 327-5
Tracks
  1. Irish boy
  2. Irish love
  3. Father and son
  4. Potato picking
  5. The long road
  6. A love idea
  7. Victims
  8. Finale - Last exit to Brooklyn
  9. Once upon a time... Storybook love
  10. Morning ride
  11. The friend's song
  12. Guide my sword
  13. A happy ending
  14. Wild theme
  15. Boomtown (variation Louis' favourite)
  16. The mist covered mountains
  17. Smooching
  18. Going home - theme of the local hero
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Additional comments DCC release of Screenplaying. 

Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) is an obsolete magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992. Pitched as a successor to the standard analog cassette, and competitor to MiniDisc (MD) and Digital Audio Tape (DAT), it never became popular with the general public. It shared the same form factor as analog cassettes, and DCC recorders could play back either type of cassette. In February 1996, Jan Timmer who was President of Philips at the time, admitted that sales of DCC were below expectations. According to him, it had become a "niche product for audiophiles". Timmer made clear that it would not be kept in production at any price: "We have to make the balance sometime: how much did it cost, what does it bring in and what are we doing with it now". The DCC was discontinued in October 1996 after Philips admitted it had achieved poor sales and MiniDisc was winning.