Dzina la gulu Dire Straits likhoza kumasuliridwa ku Chirasha mwanjira iliyonse - "Kusimidwa", "Zovuta", "Zovuta", mulimonse, mawuwo salimbikitsa.
Panthawiyi, anyamatawo, atadzitengera okha dzina lotere, adakhala kuti sanali anthu okhulupirira zamatsenga, ndipo, mwachiwonekere, ndicho chifukwa chake ntchito yawo inakhazikitsidwa.
Osachepera zaka makumi asanu ndi atatu, gululo lidakhala lodziwika bwino komanso lochita bwino pazamalonda m'mbiri ya nyimbo zamakono.
Mu 1977, anyamata awiri a ku Britain, Mark ndi David Knopfler, anaitana anzawo John Illsley ndi Peak Withers kuti ayambe kuimba limodzi nyimbo.
Achibale adatenga magitala, John adatenga woyimba bass, ndipo Peak adakhala pansi pa zida za ng'oma. Pakulemba uku, adayamba kuyeserera, kukulitsa luso lawo loimba.
Maziko a repertoire gulu anali nyimbo luso Mark Knopfler mu kalembedwe blues-rock interspersed ndi dziko, rock ndi roll ndi jazi. Ndipo nyimbo zongoganiza monyanyirazi zidakhala yankho loyenera kwa thanthwe lonyezimira komanso lopanda pake la punk lomwe linali kukulirakulira panthawiyo.
M'magawo oyambirira a Dire Straits
Dzina lokhumudwitsa koma lachipongwe komanso lachipongwe lakuti Dire Straits linaperekedwa ndi woimba wina yemwe panthawiyo ankakhala m'chipinda chimodzi ndi woimba ng'oma Withers.
Panthawi imeneyo, anyamatawo anali kukumana ndi mavuto azachuma, anali "osokonezeka", kotero dzina la gululo linali lokwanira bwino.
M'chaka choyamba cha kukhalapo kwake, a Knopflers ndi anzake adajambula kaseti yoyendetsa ndege, yomwe inali ndi nyimbo zisanu, kuphatikizapo tsogolo la Sultans of Swing, ndipo adadzipereka kuti amvetsere zowawa za wodziwika bwino wa wailesi ya BBC, Charlie Gillette.
Charlie Gillette adachita chidwi ndi zomwe adamva kuti nthawi yomweyo adayika "The Sultans" pamlengalenga. Nyimboyi inapita kwa anthu, ndipo patapita miyezi ingapo gululo linali litasaina kale mgwirizano ndi Phonogram Records.
Chimbale choyambirira chidajambulidwa mu studio ya likulu la Basing Street. Adagwira ntchito mu February 1978, adawononga ndalama zopitilira 12 pojambula, koma sanathe kupeza zopindulitsa zapadera pantchito yawo.
Mbiriyo sinalengezedwe bwino, otsutsa komanso anthu adachita mosasamala. Komabe, nthawi yomweyo, Dire Straits adayamba kuchita masewera olimbitsa thupi, akuchita nawo makonsati ogwirizana ndi Talking Heads yomwe ikukula.
Achimerika ochokera ku Warner Bros adakokera chidwi ku Britain. Records, yomwe idatulutsa chimbale choyambirira ku US ndikugawa pafupifupi padziko lonse lapansi.
Rock rock yochokera ku London idagonjetsa osati anthu aku America okha, komanso anthu aku Canada, aku Australia ndi New Zealand osasamala. Ntchito imeneyi inalandiridwa bwino ku Ulaya.
Mu 79, anyamatawo adayenda ulendo waukulu ku North America, komwe adasewera zisudzo makumi asanu m'mwezi m'maholo odzaza.
Wodziwika bwino Bob Dylan adayendera konsati yawo ku Los Angeles, adachita chidwi ndi momwe adasewera ndipo adayitana Mark Knopfler ndi Peak Withers kuti ajambule chimbale chawo cha Slow Train Coming.
Kujambula kwa chimbale chachiwiri, chotchedwa Communique Dire Straits, kunayamba kumapeto kwa 78 ku Bahamas. Idatulutsidwa m'chilimwe cha 79 ndipo idapeza mzere woyamba wa ma chart aku Germany.
Nyimbo ya Lady Writer idatulutsidwa ngati imodzi. Albumyo inapitiriza kulima mzere womwewo umene unayambira poyamba. Nyimbo ndi zolemba, ntchitoyo inakhala yabwino kwambiri, komabe ndi mawu omwewo "monochrome".
Kusintha kwa nyimbo ndi mndandanda
Mu July 80, gululi linayamba ntchito pa chimbale chachitatu ndipo anamaliza ndi kugwa. Panthawi yojambula, abale a Knopfler anali ndi mikangano yambiri.
Mark anaumirira kukulitsa nyimbo, ndipo David adakhulupirira kuti gululo liyenera kupanga mtsempha wakale womwe udamubweretsera chipambano.
Pamapeto pake, David adachoka ku Dire Straits ndi phokoso, kotero kuti kutenga nawo mbali pa Kupanga Makanema sikunatchulidwe nkomwe pa rekodi, mbali za gitala za rhythm zinawonjezeredwa ndi woimba wina.
Gululi lidayendera ndi mamembala awiri atsopano: woyimba keyboard Alan Clark ndi woyimba gitala Hal Lindes.
Kupanga Makanema kunali kosiyana ndi ntchito zam'mbuyomu za Dire Straits ndi kupotoza kwake kwa miyala, zovuta za makonzedwe ndi kutalika kwa nyimbo, zomwe zidakhala chizindikiro cha gululo mtsogolomo.
Zokumana nazo zaumwini za Mark Knopfler, katswiri wa maphunziro afilosofi, zinapanga maziko a nyimbo za album. Nyimbo yopambana kwambiri kuchokera ku album iyi inali Romeo ndi Juliet, yomwe imatiuza za chikondi chosavomerezeka pafupifupi malinga ndi Shakespeare.
Chojambula chotsatira cha situdiyo cha gulu la Love over Gold chimaganiziridwa, ngati sichopambana, ndiye chimodzi mwa ... muzojambula zawo.
Luso la oimba linafika pachimake, ndipo ma suites a rock aatali anakondwera ndi kutsogola ndi njira zosiyanasiyana zokonzekera. Kuyeserako kunali kopambana.
M'dzinja la 1982, chimbalecho chinatsimikiziridwa ndi golidi ku States ndipo chinakwera pamwamba pa ma chart ambiri a ku Ulaya.
Pachimake cha perestroika, ngakhale kampani yojambulira ya Soviet Melodiya inatulutsa mbiri yabwinoyi ku USSR, popanda mabala komanso ndi mapangidwe oyambirira akutsogolo!
Pokhapokha ngati dzina la gululo ndi chimbale chomwe chinalembedwa mu Cyrillic - "Chikondi ndi chokwera mtengo kuposa golidi", ndipo mtsogoleri wa gululo adawonekera pansi pa dzina la Knopfler - omasulira adasokonezeka ndi chilembo "kiyi" kumayambiriro kwa mawu achingerezi.
N'zochititsa chidwi kuti Album kwathunthu opangidwa ndi Mark yekha ndipo muli nyimbo zisanu - awiri mbali yoyamba, ndi atatu chachiwiri.
Chidutswa choyambirira cha Telegraph Road chimatenga mphindi zopitilira 14, koma mawonekedwe anyimbo, tempo, ndi malingaliro amasintha kangapo momwemo, zomwe zimamvedwa ndi mpweya umodzi.
Peak Withers adasiya gululo nyimboyo itangotulutsidwa. M'malo mwake adasinthidwa ndi woyimba ng'oma Terry Williams. Ndi mnyamata uyu mukulemba, nyimbo yamoyo iwiri Alchemy: Dire Straits Live inalembedwa.
Idatulutsidwa osati pa vinyl, komanso pa CD yomwe idayamba kutchuka.
Abale M'manja
Pambuyo pa 1984 Dire Straits yatsopano idabwereranso ku studio kukajambula nyimbo yatsopano, yachisanu. Pambuyo pake, idatchedwa chimbale chofunikira kwambiri m'boma la gulu lomwelo, komanso zaka khumi zonse.
Pofika nthawi imeneyo, Guy Fletcher wowonjezera wa Roxy Music adalowa nawo gululi, woyimba gitala Hal Lindes adachoka, ndipo waku America Jack Sonny adachotsedwa m'boma kuti alowe m'malo mwake.
Terry Williams adatsalira makamaka pamakanema anyimbo ndi makonsati, ndipo mu situdiyo ng'oma zidaperekedwa kwa woyimba ng'oma ya jazi Omar Hakim.
Kumbukirani mawu oyambilira a Money for Nothing, pomwe gitala lodziwika bwino lisanaduke, shaft ya synth ndi ng'oma imamanga - ndipo nyimboyo imangosweka mwachiwawa ndi Williams.
Mbiri yozizwitsa idawoneka mchaka cha 1985 ndikugonjetsa dziko lonse lapansi popanda kupatula. Nyimbo zambiri za albumyi zidatenga malo apamwamba kwambiri pama chart: choyamba, ndithudi, Money for Nothing, chachiwiri, Brothers in Arms ndi Walk of Life.
Nyimbo "Money for the Wind", lolembedwa ndi Mark Knopfler mothandizidwa ndi Sting, adapambana Grammy.
Kupambana pamalonda kwa Brothers In Arms kwachitika chifukwa chakuti inali CD yoyamba m’mbiri kusindikizidwa makope miliyoni imodzi.
Zinanenedwa kuti ndi ntchito imeneyi yomwe idalimbikitsa kwambiri mawonekedwe a CD ndikuwapatsa utsogoleri pakati pa zomvetsera kwa zaka zambiri zikubwerazi.
Ulendo wochirikiza chimbalecho unali wopambana kwambiri. Mwa njira, konsati yoyamba ya ulendo inachitika ku Yugoslavia Split, osati ku England kapena kwina kulikonse ku Western Europe.
Paziwonetsero kunyumba, gululi lidatenga nawo gawo pachiwonetsero chozizira kwambiri cha Live Aid panjira.
Dire Straits adaimba nyimbo ziwiri: Sultan of Swing ndi Money For Nothing with Sting. Ulendo wapadziko lonse lapansi udathera ku Sydney (Australia), pomwe Dire Straits idakhazikitsa mbiri yabwino - ziwonetsero 16 mu mausiku 20.
"Abale Ankhondo" adagonjetsa omvera ndi kutsidya kwa nyanja: Masabata 9 pamwamba pa mndandanda wa Album ya Billboard - izi si nthabwala kwa inu!
Chabwino, kanema wodziwika bwino wa MTV wa chinthu chabwino kwambiri kuchokera pagululi sayenera kuchepetsedwa:
Olekanitsidwa, koma osati kwamuyaya
Zinawoneka zanzeru kumenya chitsulo chikatentha ndikuyamba kujambula chimbale chotsatira nthawi yomweyo. Koma Mark Knopfler adathetsa gululo kwakanthawi chifukwa chogwira ntchito payekha ndikulemba nyimbo zamakanema.
Amunawa adasonkhana kachiwiri pa konsati yophatikizidwa yolemekeza zaka 70 za Nelson Mandela pa June 11, 1988, ndipo miyezi itatu pambuyo pake kutha kwa gululo kunalengezedwa mwalamulo.
Patatha zaka ziwiri, Dire Straits adalowa mu siteji ya nyimbo ina, pomwe Cliff Richards, Elton John, Genesis, Pink Floyd ndi nyenyezi zina zambiri za rock padziko lonse adachita kuwonjezera pa iwo.
Album yatsopano
Kumayambiriro kwa 91, abwenzi akale Mark Knopfler ndi John Illsley adaganiza zosonkhanitsanso gululo, akuitana Alan Clark ndi Guy Fletcher kuti atsimikize.
Oimba ambiri agawo adagwira nawo ntchito ku quartet iyi, yomwe ikuyenera kuwunikira katswiri wa saxophonist Chris White, woyimba gitala Phil Palmer, woyimba ng'oma Jeff Porcaro wa ku Toto.
Chimbale cha On Every Street chinagulitsidwa mu September 1991. Ngakhale kuti kwa zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi mafani adaphonya Dire Straits ndipo samayembekezeranso kumva china chatsopano kuchokera kwa iye, kupambana kwa malonda kunakhala kochepetsetsa modabwitsa, ndemangazo sizinali zandale.
Ku UK kokha mbiriyo idafika pamzere woyamba, koma ku USA idakhutitsidwa ndi malo khumi ndi awiri okha.
M'kupita kwa nthawi, phindu la ntchito yomaliza ya gulu lawonjezeka kwambiri, ndipo patapita zaka makumi angapo tinganene molimba mtima: ichi ndi chitsanzo cholimba cha nyimbo zamakono zamakono.
