414:. Alchemy is a hypothetical process once believed to turn ordinary elements into gold. The image of a guitar with lips held by a hand was added for the album design and covers sexually suggestive imagery in the original. The original painting, done between 1972 and 1973, was composed of many different elements and on 18 wood panels 203 cm x 1615 cm x 9 cm. In terms of media it used everything from feathers and part of a bird's nest to a glass eye, shell, plugs and brain in a work that becomes a transmutation of sexual organic landscapes and mindscapes.
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697:"Love over Gold", which had been released as a separate single in 1984, was added into the track list for the CD release, and the fade outs between sides 1 and 2 and sides 3 and 4 have been removed. A number of tracks had their length increased for the CD releases (the closing number, "Going Home", by the addition of another intro from
434:, and the audience response. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker." Ruhlmann concludes, "The CD version of the album contains one extra track, "Love Over Gold," which adds a needed change of pace to the otherwise slow-moving first disc."
914:(the other songs were remastered from the original mix), however this version of the album omits the "Rocks and the Thunder" intro to "Going Home" like the original LP did, and swaps the order of "Telegraph Road" and "Solid Rock". Also, "Portobello Belle" (7:22) has the full intro, but a shortened outro.
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Alam da platina tripla pelos 750 mil copias de
Brothers in Arms, a banda de Mark Knopfler garimpou entre nos duas platina dimples de 250 mil cada (Alchemy, o primeiro que estourou, em 84, e coletânea Money for Nothing, de 8) e um disco de ouro (no LP de estreia Dire Straits, de
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and the original video footage digitally enhanced and cleaned by Dick
Carruthers. The song "Love over Gold" is not included in the video, just like the original album, but is available on the compilation
426:, critic William Ruhlmann wrote of the album "There is an interesting contrast .... between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler's muttered vocals and large helpings of his
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was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire
Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States and was remastered and re-released in the USA on 8 May 2001.
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features songs from the band's first four albums, the
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2362:(in French). Hung Medien
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1941:(in German). Hung Medien
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777:"Private Investigations"
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3445:The Notting Hillbillies
2506:Official Charts Company
2422:(in Dutch). Hung Medien
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1419:Dutch Music DVDs Chart
1316:Norwegian Albums Chart
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993:Nigel Walker – engineer
55:16 March 1984
3296:Private Investigations
1973:(11): 8. 19 May 1984.
1443:UK Music Videos Chart
1260:Austrian Albums Chart
542:Private Investigations
363:promoting their album
3509:PolyGram video albums
3404:Brothers in Arms Tour
3254:Down to the Waterline
2624:(in French). InfoDisc
1324:Swedish Albums Chart
1220:Rolling Stones Mobile
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3409:On Every Street Tour
3310:Twisting by the Pool
2797:Fundación Autor/SGAE
1877:"Mark Knopfler News"
1300:German Albums Chart
960:Additional musicians
895:, released in 1988 (
615:Oscar Hammerstein II
291:Warner Bros. Records
217:Professional ratings
3387:You and Your Friend
2470:"Top 10 Music DVDs"
2129:Norwegiancharts.com
1985:on 28 December 2012
1804:Ruhlmann, William.
1785:cite AV media notes
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1332:Swiss Albums Chart
1280:Dutch Charts Chart
1248:Australian Albums (
361:Love Over Gold Tour
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3303:Industrial Disease
2416:"DVD Music Top 30"
2382:"Musik DVD Top-10"
2336:on 25 October 2012
2065:"Top 100 Longplay"
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788:"Sultans of Swing"
751:"Romeo and Juliet"
594:"Two Young Lovers"
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337:In November 2023,
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3352:Your Latest Trick
3331:Money for Nothing
3186:Money for Nothing
2927:(in Portuguese).
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2302:Austriancharts.at
2155:Swedishcharts.com
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2987:Alchemy Live
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