Knopfler and bandmate Pick Withers had spent May that year recording with Bob Dylan in Muscle Shoals, in sessions for his Slow Train Coming album. As it climbed one place the following week, Dire Straits was still selling well at No.21 its successor would spend nine weeks in the Top 20. The sophomore release was produced by esteemed record executive Jerry Wexler with Barry Beckett in the conducive surroundings of Muscle Shoals Sound in Sheffield, Alabama.Ĭommuniqué had wasted no such time in reaching the band’s new fan base, with a UK peak at No.6.
When the sophomore release came along, again entirely written by Mark Knopfler, the first set sold alongside it and stayed on the chart clean through into October. It had been only in April that the previous year’s self-titled debut album, fuelled by the success of the reissued “Sultans Of Swing” single, rebounded in the UK and hit a new peak of No.5. Their second LP Communiqué reached a second-week peak of No.5 in the UK and, at the same time, became the third-highest new entry on Billboard’s Top LPs and Tape chart. “ All of the early groundwork that Dire Straits had put into cultivating their audience with tireless live work and a strong first album brought them a new reward in the summer of 1979. I am going to bring in a review for Communiqué that is a little mixed. I feel that people need to give the album another spin. With all songs written by their lead, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits produced a really solid and enjoyable album with Communiqué. Lady Writer is the most well-known song from Communiqué, though the title track and Portobello Belle are excellent. I feel that it is an album that has not received its dues. A year later, they followed it up with an album that was not as celebrated and successful.
It does contain the massive hit, Sultans of Swing. Their eponymous debut of 1978 is seen as a classic. I am looking at the underrated second album, Communiqué. In terms of critical acclaim, perhaps 1980’s Making Movies is their highpoint. That is one of the more celebrated release from them. I think a lot of the concentration has been on their fifth studio album: 1985’s Brothers in Arms. IN THIS PHOTO: Dire Straits in 1979/ PHOTO CREDIT: Barry SchultzĪ few times on my blog.
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