Eight Page Booklet + Insert
Guitar & Vocals – Mark Knopfler
Keyboards – Alan Clark
Keyboards & Vocals – Guy Fletcher
Bass & Vocals – John Illsley
Drums – Omar Hakim, Terry Williams
Produced by – Mark Knopfler, Neil Dorfsman
Engineered by – Neil Dorfsman
Assisted by – Steve Jackson (Air Montserrat), Bruce Lampcov, David Greenberg (Power Station)
Recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat (West Indies).
Mixed at Power Station, New York
Songs written by Mark Knopfler, except * written by Mark Knopfler/Sting
Published by Chariscourt Ltd./Rondor Music (London) Ltd.
except * published by Chariscourt Ltd./Rondor Music (London) Ltd./Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
Design – Sutton Cooper, Andrew Prewett
Photography – Deborah Feingold
Painting – Thomas Steyer
Released in Australia through PolyGram with the Original booklet image #'s 311379 to 311387 and the third embodiment image #'s 340099, 340100 which brings it into an International release.
I added a space, and now your remastered version actually starts at row 3 of the images (on this computer, it depends on the size of the monitor though). As said on Wikipedia, the remastered version (of an original digital recording) was released in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States and on 19 September 2000 in the United States.
1996 SBM remaster added.
Standard cd case with a clear tray.
May i suggest that maybe a space be left after the original issue, and the digital remaster front cover be started at far left (row 3), to differentiate between the two, if thats possible?.
Superb sound quality, 10/10.
This was not the first rock or pop CD album (it all started on Aug 17, 1982 with ABBA's The Visitors) but one of the first albums to be directed at the CD market, one of the first full digital recordings (DDD), and the first album to sell one million copies in the CD format (outselling its abridged LP version). It is said that at a time in the mid-1980s every owner of a CD player also owned this CD album.
I filed this Germany-made release as the European version because in 1985 most CDs were produced at the Polygram plant near Hannover, Germany, although there were discs made in France as well (obviously sold with the same Printed in West Germany booklet).