Dire Straits with Stephan Morrell

Stefan Morrell
Concept Artist
Christchurch, New Zealand

Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 51 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached number one on album charts in Germany, Spain, New Zealand, and Sweden, number 11 in the United States and number 5 in the United Kingdom. Communiqué was later certified gold in the United States, platinum in the United Kingdom and double-platinum in France.

It is the last album to feature David Knopfler, who would later depart from the band during the making of their following album and the last with the original lineup.

Written by: Mark Knopfler
Album: Communique
Released: 1979

Where Do You Think You're Going?
Dire Straits

Where do you think you're going?
Don't you know it's dark outside?
Where do you think you're going?
I wish they'd care about my pride

Where do you think you're going?
I think you don't know
You got no way of knowing
You got no place you can go

I understand your changes
How long before you reach the door
I know where you think you're going
I know what you came here for

And now I'm sick of joking
You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you're going?
I think you'd better go with me, girl

You say there is no reason
But you still find cause to doubt me
When you ain't with me, girl
You're gonna be without me

Where do you think you're going?
Don't you know it's dark outside?
Where do you think you're going?
I wish they'd care about my pride

And now I'm sick of joking
You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you're going?
I think you'd better go with me, girl

Come on

On Every Street is the sixth and final studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 9 September 1991 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The follow-up to the band's massively successful album Brothers in Arms, On Every Street reached the top of the UK Albums Chart and was also certified platinum by the RIAA.

On Every Street was released more than six years after the band's previous album, Brothers in Arms, and was Dire Straits' final studio album. It reached number 12 in the United States and number one in the United Kingdom and numerous European countries. The album was produced by Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits.

By this time, the band comprised Knopfler, John Illsley, Alan Clark and Guy Fletcher, and the album features session musicians including Paul Franklin, Phil Palmer, Danny Cummings and American drummer Jeff Porcaro from Toto, who was asked to play the band's subsequent world tour, although he declined because of other commitments, both with Toto and as a studio musician.

Dire Straits promoted the album with a world tour which lasted until the end of 1992. The group disbanded in 1995, after which Mark Knopfler pursued a solo career.

The album was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world, except for the United States, where it was reissued on 19 September 2000.

Written by: Mark Knopfler
Album: On Every Street (Remastered)
Released: 1991
Fade To Black
Dire Straits

Well I wonder where you are tonight
You're probably on the rampage somewhere
You have been known to take delight and
In gettin' in somebody's hair
And you, you always had the knack
Fade to black

I bet you already made a pass
I see a darkened room somewhere
You run your finger round the rim of his glass
Run your fingers through his hair they
Scratch across his back
Fade to black

Well maybe it's all for the best
But I wish I'd never been lassooed
And maybe it's some kind of test
But I wish I'd never been tattooed
Or been to hell and back
Fade to black