Dire Straits And Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations - The Best Of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler Video

Private Investigations –The Best Of
Dire Straits And Mark Knopfler
Release date: November 7th 2005

Mercury Records are thrilled to release a very special collection of songs by one of the biggest British bands in music history, Dire Straits, fronted by one of the world's leading songwriters and guitarists, Mark Knopfler.

Click here to watch 4 original full length Dire Straits videos. All tracks feature on 'Private Investigations' - The Best of Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits - Out Monday 7th November.

On November 7th 2005 Mercury Records will release 'Private Investigations – The Very Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler'. This collection of songs spans Mark's entire career in Dire Straits, through to his current critically acclaimed solo albums. Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler have sold in excess of 118 million albums worldwide to date.

'Private Investigations' features tracks from each of Dire Straits' classic albums, e.g. 'On Every Street', 'Making Movies', 'Love Over Gold', as well as the 13 times platinum selling 'Brothers In Arms' album, which to date has clocked up over 29 million sales and achieved #1 status in a whopping 22 countries. It still remains one of the biggest selling albums of all time.

Along with the Dire Straits classics, the album features gems from Mark Knopfler's solo albums such as 'Sailing To Philadelphia', 'The Ragpicker's Dream' and his current album 'Shangri-La'. The final track 'All The Roadrunning' is exclusive to this album and features a duet between Mark and Emmylou Harris from their forthcoming record to be released on Mercury Records in the spring of 2006.

TRACKLISTING FOR 'PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS
CD1 CD2
'Telegraph Road' 'Calling Elvis'
'Sultan's Of Swing' 'On Every Street'
'Love Over Gold' 'Going Home:Theme Of The Local Hero'
'Romeo And Juliet' 'Darling Pretty'
'Tunnel Of Love-Intro: The Carousel Waltz' 'The Long Road'
'Private Investigations' 'Why Aye Man'
'So Far Away' 'Sailing To Philadelphia'
'Money For Nothing' 'What It Is'
'Brothers In Arms' 'The Trawlerman's Song'
'Walk Of Life' 'Boom, Like That'
'Your Latest Trick' 'All The Roadrunning'

Limited edition 2CD set – Hardback 48 page book with exclusive photos and liner card notes by Timothy Ferris
Standard 2CD set – Standard 1CD