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Record Details

Artist: Dire Straits
Title: Dire Straits
Format: 12"
Label: Vertigo
Cat No: 6360 162
Released: 7 Jul 1978
Country:
Genres: AORSoft Rock
Status Have
Added To List 8th January 2026
Disc 1 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
AA 6360162.1Y  
B Matrix:
AA 6360162.2Y  

Additional Information

Comments Comes with a printed inner sleeve with photos, lyrics and credits and / or an insert with the same print as on the inner sleeve, also stating:
Lyrics reproduced by kind permission of Straightjacket Songs / Rondor Music

Recorded at Basing St. Studios, London, Feb. 1978.
Issued in a semi-glossy sleeve with black & white strat on rear.

[On back cover]
All songs published by Rondor Music/Strait Jacket Songs
℗ 1978 Phonogram Ltd.
Printed in West-Germany
aus dem Hause
phonogram

To distinguish different German releases:
Version with red guitar instead the black & white guitar on back cover: [r=435164].
Version with red "Vertigo/Ufo" labels instead standard green: [r=2792570].
Version with silver printed boxed "GEMA" on the labels right side instead silver print "GEMA" above "STEREO 33 1/3" on the left side: [r=2277986]).

Some quantities were issued with a circular sticker on the cover stating: "DEUTSCHER SCHALLPLATTENPREIS DEUTSCHE PHONO-AKADEMIE E.V."

Runouts are stamped.
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