This is the best live version of any song in any genre of music, the tone of every instrument is just perfect so is the general mix. Dire Straits should have been prohibited to do studio works but instead record their stuff live xD.
I heard many different version of Dire Straits songs, but IMO the night they recorded this Live...I don't know..they just touch the sky...each song, the way the notes flow perfectly all the way, they didn t just played, they was into it, lost in it, best version ever 👏👏👏when music was MUSIC!!!!
Mel Collins on the sax. This intro is like a piece of heaven in rock music. They mastered this. I thank my brother for introducing me to this about 30 something years ago!
Dire Straits just take music to another level with this album . I’ve listened to it since it came out and it’s still as brilliant as it was then . Absolutely the best album ever .
After heard this song so many times It still drives tears to my eyes especially the long solo as only Mark Knopfler can play the guitar. Being capable over transferring your emotions on to the strings proves mastership.
it may be old but by God its NEVER LOST its soul and beauty .... im a song writer and a musician of over thirty years. If i can pen one song in my life that has this soul and beauty i will die a happy man....... Bloody timeless.
Breathtakingly tight, accurate hits accents and played emotionally by the band, and played almost to perfection. Hearing this at 16 years old, was what helped make me want to be a pro Vocalist and quality live musician. I’m now 54 and still mesmerized by it. Thx for posting
El nivel de inspiración en esta noche mágica fue absoluto,desconozco a qué Dios se encomendarían o que drogas tomarían pero nunca he escuchado nada tan absolutamente increíble como esto.Desde el primer al último segundo es una experiencia sublime
This performance is in the top 5 of all rock and roll live shows, and the song is the very best one of all time: made that way by an extraordinary band the likes of which we will never see again and the guitar god that is Mark Knopfler.
The love of my life introduced my to this song way back when it was released. We split up some years later, but she'll always be the love of my life, and so the song.
When I was young, i did not understand why my Mom loved to hear this old music from the sixties like Elvis Presley. This was in the early eighties. NOW, 36!!! years later after i heard this album for the first time, i can still listen to it every day. It´s M A G I C !!!! Mom, I can understand you know!!!! Love you!!!!
Haha, dad was Elvis and Johnny Cash, mum was Simon & Garfunkel and Neil Diamond. Sisters were crazy about Duran Duran and I mostly played this and Rainbow On Stage. Music wise I think 80's teenagers got the best deal ever. 😊
one of the most amazing drummer i have ever listened to : it's one of my fav drummer , Terry Williams rules! the true ones know it :) the intro is magic the end is magic pure alchemy
Best best live album ever . Alchemy is a part of history that will never be repeated . The pinnacle of live performances where they actually live take there tracks to a different level . Mark , backing guys and the drummer that just picks up the pace at the perfect time ... never really to be repeated
This version is fantastic, but I like more the one they used to play on the 1985/1986 tour. Check the "Dire Straits Tunnel of Love Sydney 1986" on you tube, the quality isn't the great but even like that, it's still awesome.
I'm from Northumberland too and I spent many happy hours as a teenager in the Spanish City in Whitley Bay during the early 1970s. Shame it's just a facade now.
No puede haber tanto sentimiento junto en un tema musical...ese final instrumental es como estar en una montaña rusa, esa guitarra te coge el alma y le da la vuelta como un calcetín a su antojo...sublime.
Alchemy live produced the best version of this and Sultans, in my opinion. The studio versions are great of course, but just don’t have the same electricity as the live performances.
Right there with you on the Alchemy album, the vinyl copy is one of my most prized possessions. AND I’m finally going to the Spanish City that MK sings about in this song in May this year 😊
Was asked recently by a female friend what music I listen to. "Same song I've been listening to for the last thirty years" I responded. "What's that"? she asked. "Tunnel of Love" was my answer!
Took off her silver locket, said "remember me by this". She put her hand in my back pocket, I got a keepsake and a kiss. And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away. Coulda' caught up with her easy enough, but something musta' made me stay. Been there. Makes the hair on my neck stand up, EVERYTIME!
Given that it's a female friend I'm suprised there aren't any "Tunnel of love" jokes. Which is good because this is too great a song to make crass jokes about.
First cd's I ever bought in nineteen eighty and something. Still astounds and amazes me today. This and Telegraph Rd are the best 25 minutes of live music you'll ever hear! And I've heard Freddie Mercury live! 😂
As a Geordie, it’s so evocative. Spanish City was a funfair on Whitley Bay seafront. Knopfler is from Cullercoats, just a mile up the coast. Also, Sting is from Wallsend, about 3 miles away.
i saw the Dire Straits live way back in 85; i was just 15 years the whole crowd was 30+ and singing every song with them; it was unbelievable how cool they were
thanks Mark and the Dire Straits,your touch on the guitar is divine.Going through a tunnel of love myself atm and listened to this 10 times the last 2 days and am blown away every time.All will be well!
The absolute best, thrilling, most stupendous, awesome, hands down, no arguments, don’t make me come up there, ass-kicking version of this masterpiece. What a fucking superb album Alchemy is! Wish I’d been there.
maybe best live for cure,passion,arrangement,ideas...great musicians..they changed two songs..completely..once upon..and sultans..i am drummer..and grew up with their...THANKS ,HONOUR,ADORATION TO TERRY WILLIAMS...
I wonder why the last comment on this was 1 yr ago? Man, this was when everything on earth was possible. It brought us to where we are now! Mark is a storyteller & guitarist like no other... imagine ending a story with... "Girl you look so pretty to me.." Then carry it along with a classico-rock solo. Undying stuff this is!!
This stuff is really special man, it was the Straits that made me love music when I was a little kid, before Kindergarten age. Now that I'm 43 I look back on the years of music I've heard, and I'm still convinced this is some of the very best stuff ever written.
pensándolo hoy en día la grabación es suprema se escucha hasta el último tipo de la última fila. Es mágico, todo lo qué pasa en esta canción es arte puro, podes imaginar mil situaciones, colores, formas, paisajes.... es una obra de arte en todo sentido. Lo escucho desde que tengo uso de razón y nunca me voy a cansar.
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This is without doubt one of the greatest live albums ever recorded. ..a masterpiece that's captures Dire Straits at the Peak of their powers.
Not a Brothers in Arms fan then?
@@talktalk2412he said live album
@@richardbrooks50 My bad
I used to hear this song with my dad, he died a week ago so now in hearing this alone to feel he is still with me ❤️🕊
So sorry for your loss. This is my all time favorite song.
This is the best live version of any song in any genre of music, the tone of every instrument is just perfect so is the general mix. Dire Straits should have been prohibited to do studio works but instead record their stuff live xD.
👌👌👌
Exactly my thoughts since always!
Well said.
Classic
I think Alchemy is the best live of all times.It's just perfect
That outro makes me emotional everytime, I’m a 22 year old and I’m so grateful to have this great album on vinyl it will never leave my collection
One of the greatest performances of all time. The final few minutes are sheer, worldess joy.
This is THE performance, the BEST ever, full stop.
I feel that way about the first few minutes.
Lacrime solo lacrime sta versione e qualcosa di eccezionale
La migliore in assoluto, inarrivabile, da chiunque. Eric Clapton sull'attenti e muto.
Ma di gioia però! Poi Clepton che c' entra?!?!?Mah...... misteri della vita
The outro to this is probably the greatest guitar solo ever played.
The second, after Sultans of Swing - Alchemy live ; )
The second being Sultans of Swing - Alchemy live : )
I heard many different version of Dire Straits songs, but IMO the night they recorded this Live...I don't know..they just touch the sky...each song, the way the notes flow perfectly all the way, they didn t just played, they was into it, lost in it, best version ever 👏👏👏when music was MUSIC!!!!
Assolutamente, anche per me 👑
@@LesPaulZoso94 pensa essere stati a quel concerto ...Purtroppo avevo 11 anni...
La mia infanzia...mio fratello maggiore li ascoltava sempre e lo ringraziero sempre di avermeli fatti ascoltare😊
I just can’t describe in words how MK makes the guitar talk (emotional chills)
MK is just music no words needs
MK is my second greatest guitarist AFTER DG
it's been 30 years, and this song is still the epitome of joy to me. And this live version brings it to the stratosphere.
I actually think this is one of the greatest songs of all time
At the very least it's the very best version of a Dire Straits song ever recorded.
Chris K touché 👌
Me too!
I agree.. absolutely top 3 of humanitys best songs.. at least top 5
Despite sultan of swing was my top fav song, Tunnel of Love become my most frequently played song from DS many decades later.
Best live album ever recorded by a long way. Every song is top class. Love from Dublin Ireland 🍀
Mel Collins on the sax. This intro is like a piece of heaven in rock music. They mastered this. I thank my brother for introducing me to this about 30 something years ago!
I agree. The intro is superb.
👍
J ai 60 ans et j ecoute toujours cette magnifique musique
No throwing TV sets out of hotel windows, no bad boy image for publicity, but sold albums by the millions just by playing great music.
Most beautiful solo in rock history
100%
Sólo puedo decir que éstos chicos.... me Elevan ....Y .... APASALOBIEN TØS Y TÃS
Best live album ever. The best versions of all the songs are on this album.
Absoluty !!! Most greatest !!! Near the perfeccion !
Stop Islamic Conquest if Mark knopfler had lived during the Islamic evolution in Andalusia Sevilla, he would had rocked then. My Muslim opinion
abbas usef I'm not sure to understand but if you mean he would have pacify them by playing, I agree..
Stop Islamic conquest, I agree exept for "telegraph" for which I think no live is better than the studio version, as well as "private investig.."
@@abbasusef6690 what has religion to do with song?
Those lovely arpeggios Alan Clark plays at the 13m mark are just sublime. Just what the song needed.
Seit Jahrzehnten ein Ohrwurm
2x live gehört und unvergesslich
Dire Straits just take music to another level with this album . I’ve listened to it since it came out and it’s still as brilliant as it was then . Absolutely the best album ever .
After heard this song so many times It still drives tears to my eyes especially the long solo as only Mark Knopfler can play the guitar. Being capable over transferring your emotions on to the strings proves mastership.
And on the 8th Day, God decided to create Mark Knopfler. Thank you, God.
That saxophone intro lifts the song to a divine level, love it!
Amazing
it may be old but by God its NEVER LOST its soul and beauty .... im a song writer and a musician of over thirty years. If i can pen one song in my life that has this soul and beauty i will die a happy man....... Bloody timeless.
Still got those goose bumps in 2020. One of my favorites for all the right reasons.
Getting them goosebumps in21
Tears in my eyes in 2023, just as in 1984. I thought it was just Telegraph Road that made me well up
Breathtakingly tight, accurate hits accents and played emotionally by the band, and played almost to perfection. Hearing this at 16 years old, was what helped make me want to be a pro Vocalist and quality live musician. I’m now 54 and still mesmerized by it. Thx for posting
Great story Rob 🙂
80s decade NEVER left me.....
Esta versión es simplemente brutal, y el final, apoteósico, no hay más que decir, los 14 minutos son un huracán de emociones.
A mi la que más me gusta es la de Wembley 85 con un fraseo de guitarra increíble pero este se sale también.
El nivel de inspiración en esta noche mágica fue absoluto,desconozco a qué Dios se encomendarían o que drogas tomarían pero nunca he escuchado nada tan absolutamente increíble como esto.Desde el primer al último segundo es una experiencia sublime
Excelente comienzo con ese saxofón...y emotivo el túnel del amor.
This performance is in the top 5 of all rock and roll live shows, and the song is the very best one of all time: made that way by an extraordinary band the likes of which we will never see again and the guitar god that is Mark Knopfler.
Spot on
My favourite dire strait love from me tunnel of love John
Which would be your other 4?? (curious :) )
Nothing beats listening to this album on vinyl.
Tears in my eyes in 2019
Me too :)
Also
What has happened?
Mark just plays that guitar with such emotion that you can't help but be moved...especially during Romeo and Juliet
sill in 2020...😪
My hubbys favourite. He worked on the fairground when we met
One of the the biggest live albums ever made!! Great concert!! Great band!! Dire Straits forever!!!
The last 5 mins is the best guitar playing ever
DS are pure class🤟
The love of my life introduced my to this song way back when it was released. We split up some years later, but she'll always be the love of my life, and so the song.
That lady had good taste
When I was young, i did not understand why my Mom loved to hear this old music from the sixties like Elvis Presley. This was in the early eighties. NOW, 36!!! years later after i heard this album for the first time, i can still listen to it every day. It´s M A G I C !!!! Mom, I can understand you know!!!! Love you!!!!
Nice
Haha, dad was Elvis and Johnny Cash, mum was Simon & Garfunkel and Neil Diamond.
Sisters were crazy about Duran Duran and I mostly played this and Rainbow On Stage.
Music wise I think 80's teenagers got the best deal ever. 😊
This has not everything to do with nostalgia. I'm 25, I just discovered Dire Straits a few weeks ago, and I am simply blown away.
one of the most amazing drummer i have ever listened to : it's one of my fav drummer , Terry Williams rules!
the true ones know it :)
the intro is magic
the end is magic
pure alchemy
From 9.20 to 14.33 must be the most exquisite piece of music I have ever listened to. Takes me to another world
So right! I keep playing this part over and over.
7:32 to 8:02 comes a close second.
I think from 0.01 till 14.33
I think the same
@@jupasi agree
Pure bliss..what an harmony, what an outstanding performance. Best version, ever!
Their concerts in NZ were so good. A gerat time to be young. You wont get that again.
Best best live album ever . Alchemy is a part of history that will never be repeated . The pinnacle of live performances where they actually live take there tracks to a different level . Mark , backing guys and the drummer that just picks up the pace at the perfect time ... never really to be repeated
JAMES DAVIS i would kill to see them perform this live again
Pick Withers is the great performer behind the drums
Probably their best live version
Yes, indeed!
Richard Ruegg nope the best live version
This version is fantastic, but I like more the one they used to play on the 1985/1986 tour. Check the "Dire Straits Tunnel of Love Sydney 1986" on you tube, the quality isn't the great but even like that, it's still awesome.
Olavo Dias Agreed, the whole Sydney concert is amazing. This one is, too.
yeeeeeeeessss
I wish I could go back to the Spanish City I remember, Fond memories of a time long past.
Spanish sity is metafora !
Maza Mamina no it’s not, I’m from where Knopfler grew up and the Spanish City was a fun fair in Whitley Bay. We used to go there in the summer.
I'm from Northumberland too and I spent many happy hours as a teenager in the Spanish City in Whitley Bay during the early 1970s. Shame it's just a facade now.
Each Single one in the audience is so lucky to have witnessed this live. Priceless
Was almost home when this came on in the car on my UA-cam mix...pumped up the volume and took a long detour around the town. Just fantastic !
The intro is incredible.. fantastic.. wow!!
My favourite song, great song and precisely this version, very intense.
I'm listening to this since 1986 when I discovered it for the first time.
No puede haber tanto sentimiento junto en un tema musical...ese final instrumental es como estar en una montaña rusa, esa guitarra te coge el alma y le da la vuelta como un calcetín a su antojo...sublime.
Alchemy live produced the best version of this and Sultans, in my opinion. The studio versions are great of course, but just don’t have the same electricity as the live performances.
Once upon a time in the west, Telegraph road, Two young lovers
Solid Rock, Private Investigations, Romeo and Juliet...
Probably because Terry Williams was substituted for most of the recording session. Terry is a great rock drummer
many good memories of this beautiful live album .. never tired .. weeping with emotion ..
I love this album to bits, and it will stay with me for life! Enjoying every song and every story. Pure musical pleasure! Every play.
Right there with you on the Alchemy album, the vinyl copy is one of my most prized possessions. AND I’m finally going to the Spanish City that MK sings about in this song in May this year 😊
@@The_Dee_Jay have an amazing time! X
@@TraceyBallsongs thanks! I'll bring you back an ice cream - vanilla, strawberry or mint-choc?
@@The_Dee_Jay Lol, Vanilla.😉
@@TraceyBallsongs plain old safe vanilla?! 😴 You sure?
If one day alliens come to annihilate us all, they will stop after hearing Mark Knopler playing guitar.
True genius.
Was asked recently by a female friend what music I listen to. "Same song I've been listening to for the last thirty years" I responded. "What's that"? she asked. "Tunnel of Love" was my answer!
Took off her silver locket, said "remember me by this". She put her hand in my back pocket, I got a keepsake and a kiss. And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away. Coulda' caught up with her easy enough, but something musta' made me stay. Been there. Makes the hair on my neck stand up, EVERYTIME!
So did I: my first time was in 1980, since Alchemy appeared I never quit
Me too
Given that it's a female friend I'm suprised there aren't any "Tunnel of love" jokes. Which is good because this is too great a song to make crass jokes about.
excellent!! I could have been as possessed as you are.. I'm not far anyway..
First cd's I ever bought in nineteen eighty and something.
Still astounds and amazes me today.
This and Telegraph Rd are the best 25 minutes of live music you'll ever hear!
And I've heard Freddie Mercury live! 😂
The Best Album for ever, ILive this 🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶
As a Geordie, it’s so evocative. Spanish City was a funfair on Whitley Bay seafront. Knopfler is from Cullercoats, just a mile up the coast. Also, Sting is from Wallsend, about 3 miles away.
I know it’s not quite what it once was but I’m finally going to the Spanish City in May, can’t wait!
I did listen this album maybe a million times in my life. I do listen the dire straits almost every day. Gives me goose bumps everytime i hear theme.
What a lucky group of people who where attending that show!!!!!wow
One of the best songs ever.. .. the crowds were cool too....
Listening in June 2023.
As good as it will ever get. Mark Knopfler is a guitar god. The rest of the band is pretty good too.
Mark at the very top of his game perfect for ever
i saw the Dire Straits live way back in 85; i was just 15 years the whole crowd was 30+ and singing every song with them; it was unbelievable how cool they were
Happiest 14 1/2 minutes of my life, listening to this.
Fnortner01 me too
Excited
Only one word: Fantastic !!!! 🇧🇷❤🇧🇷
Sin lugar a dudas.....jamás me cansaré de oir a esta gente......GENIOS TOTALES!!!!!!
He is JUST one very UNDERRATED GUITARIST
I love this song, is te best!
Questo album va diritto al cuore
Terry Williams in his element live, elevates whole sound
Amazing powerful intro, love this dance between guitar and saxophone
thanks Mark and the Dire Straits,your touch on the guitar is divine.Going through a tunnel of love myself atm and listened to this 10 times the last 2 days and am blown away every time.All will be well!
A magic tomb strumming deep in the soul and creative a very best sound lead guiter..
Song from 1980! The Best Year Ever!
The absolute best, thrilling, most stupendous, awesome, hands down, no arguments, don’t make me come up there, ass-kicking version of this masterpiece.
What a fucking superb album Alchemy is! Wish I’d been there.
❤❣💕❤✝🕎✡❓
-e xomdurles merci ❤
maybe best live for cure,passion,arrangement,ideas...great musicians..they changed two songs..completely..once upon..and sultans..i am drummer..and grew up with their...THANKS ,HONOUR,ADORATION TO TERRY WILLIAMS...
The 🔈BEST🔊 Live.
what a beautiful song. dire straits had a different style and however they made their songs , they came out great
This is actual music
When I first heard this, I was like "Ok, this is the bar, the standard has been set for my favorite song!" :)
= = Masterpiece = =
Énorme chanson extraite de la quintessence du live : Alchemy!
La perfection en live,Pas une fausse note.
ça me fait revenir trente ans en arrière et je ne m'en lasse pas de l'écouter ...
Can only blame my old man, he introduced me, an exceptional album🌈🌈
Intro and the rest, fking greatest song ever recorded live.
A very private man on a very public place.
Yes , totally agree
One of the first CDs we bought, in 1985, when we got our first CD player.
Esto es música y no lo de ahora
I wonder why the last comment on this was 1 yr ago? Man, this was when everything on earth was possible. It brought us to where we are now! Mark is a storyteller & guitarist like no other... imagine ending a story with... "Girl you look so pretty to me.." Then carry it along with a classico-rock solo. Undying stuff this is!!
This stuff is really special man, it was the Straits that made me love music when I was a little kid, before Kindergarten age. Now that I'm 43 I look back on the years of music I've heard, and I'm still convinced this is some of the very best stuff ever written.
Absolutely beautiful. Tears in my eyes
The best live version....
pensándolo hoy en día la grabación es suprema se escucha hasta el último tipo de la última fila. Es mágico, todo lo qué pasa en esta canción es arte puro, podes imaginar mil situaciones, colores, formas, paisajes.... es una obra de arte en todo sentido. Lo escucho desde que tengo uso de razón y nunca me voy a cansar.
masterpieceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
never gets old
As I said to my five year old the other day: When you're my age son, you'll realise music really doesn't get any better than this.
Qué grandes erais !!!!
To jest tak wspaniałe że aż dech zapiera dzięki
Best solo in the rock history
Is only the beast!!
Enoooooorme
Brilliant beyond description.
Hoje dia mundial do Rock. Brasil comemorando com Dire Straits !!!!