Good morning.
Magic happens.
Running through Threads this morning, I found someone who chooses “Love Over Gold” as the best ever album by the Dire Straits (*)… I prefer “Making Movies”, as it has my favorite song in it, but the double vinyl that blew me away is my favorite. It’s suitably named “Alchemy”, recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in 1983. Their first live album, never to to surpassed.
(*) @thepretender39
Many times I tried to play it here, but “Alchemy” is not available on Spotify (spare me the Spotify spiel, music is music). But today… I found the recordings. They are assembled in an album named “Dire Straits Live 1978-1992”. The Hammersmith Odeon recordings!! I just couldn’t believe it! I had the “Alchemy” vinyls, once. Now I am left with the CD’s… But I can finally share the magic here, the… Alchemy.
So, dear Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between, without politics or cats, today I wish to have focus on music, for music may well save us all, for more than any other art form, it combines the essence of love. And love is all you need.
Ladies and gentlemen… Mark Knopfler and the Dire Straits, live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. 1983. And my favorite song ever… (The acoustic guitar… Unbelievable…)
Happy trails… 💙🎧
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1983.
Cut from “Dire Straits Live 1978-1992”.
