DIRE STRAITS - LOVE OVER GOLD
DIRE STRAITS - LOVE OVER GOLD (Vertigo 1982) "A long time ago came a man on a track, walking thirty miles with a pack on his back.." Love Over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits. It was released on September 20, 1982 after it's first single "Private Investigations" peaked at number 2 in the UK earlier the same month. With only five songs, dark themes and moody but stunningly melodic music, Love Over Gold is possibly and most seriously Dire Straits masterpiece and it's hard to believe in hindsight that such, complex, sophisticated music and themes followed only four short years after the bands self-titled 1978 debut which was heavy on the Blues and Country and sounded like pure fun with singer songwriter Mark Knopfler's slick and silky chicken' pickin' Fender Strat licks. Album number two, Communique from 1979 was a watered down version of the debut, while album three, 1980s Making Movies contained t...