If Dire Straits thought the world wanted a bit break from them after the globe-straddling success of Brothers In Arms, then October 29, 1988 proved that the other was true. The Vertigo compilation Cash For Nothing – named, after all, after one of many trademark hits from that final studio set — entered the UK chart at No.1.
The primary retrospective dedicated to the British rock heroes, it featured lots of the signature songs from their 5 studio LPs, but in addition quite a lot of rarities to maintain avid collectors pleased. Hits included “Sultans Of Swing,” “Tunnel Of Love,” “Romeo & Juliet,” and “Private Investigations.”
They lined up alongside such beforehand unreleased points of interest because the dwell observe “Portobello Belle,” an outtake from the Alchemy dwell album; a remix of that report’s “Telegraph Road”; a special mixture of the Communiqué observe “Where Do You Think You’re Going”; and an edit of “Brothers In Arms.”
Followers completely lapped all of it up. The album topped numerous charts round Europe, with reported gross sales all through the continent of greater than six million. Though Cash For Nothing solely reached No.62 within the US, it nonetheless went platinum there.
Again within the UK, the compilation spent three weeks at No.1 and a weighty 13 within the High 10, in an preliminary chart run of 47 weeks. The album continued to point out up on the bestsellers intermittently by means of the primary half of the Nineties and went quadruple platinum. Folks might have needed their MTV, however they wanted their Dire Straits.
Two later retrospectives, 1998’s Sultans of Swing and 2005’s Non-public Investigations, every gained additional multi-platinum honors to show that continues to be the case. Non-public Investigations figured within the decrease reaches of the Official Charts Firm’s weekly high 100 UK listings into the summer time of 2021, by which era its mixture run there got here to almost 140 weeks.
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