The best-selling single from the album was “I Don’t Need No Doctor.” which had been a hit for Ray Charles in 1966.
Humble Pie were made up of singer and guitarist Steve Marriott, guitarist Peter Frampton, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Jerry Shirley. This live double-album from English blues-rock band Humble Pie was recorded over two days in May 1971 at the famous Fillmore East Club in Manhattan, which closed a month later. Live In Paris won a Grammy for Best Jazz Album.Ĥ9: Humble Pie: Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore (1971) Krall, backed by a band that included guest jazz stars of the caliber of Michael Brecker and Christian McBride, swings through standards – including from the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen – and brings her own sophisticated style to versions of modern classics by Billy Joel and Joni Mitchell (Krall delivers a delightful version of “A Case of You”). Verve Records has released live albums from dozens of great jazz singers down the years – including Billie Holiday, Anita O’Day, and Ella Fitzgerald – and one of their finest 21st-century releases is Canadian singer and pianist Diana Krall’s Live in Paris, recorded at the historic Olympia venue in the French capital. The band didn’t have a lot of official rarities, but it sure would be nice if they could be revived.Here are just a few of the best live albums ever put to tape. A duet with Emmylou Harris was the only real carrot, at least until their collaborative album came out the following year.Īll this has only made the original Money For Nothing album grow in stature, considering that it’s now been out of print for decades, and some of its highlights remain elusive. That song was a glaring omission from 2005’s Private Investigations: The Best Of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler, which was made available in single-disc and double-disc versions, both leaning on Knopfler’s solo work. At least they kept “Twisting By The Pool”. “So Far Away” joined its brothers, as did three songs from On Every Street and two more later live versions. This time the sequence was strictly chronological and filled to capacity, dropping the two alternates representing Communiqué for “Lady Writer” and swapping the live “Telegraph Road” for the live “Love Over Gold”. Those consumers weren’t part of the marketing plan ten years later when the more pointedly titled Sultans Of Swing: The Very Best Of Dire Straits replaced Money For Nothing as their official compilation. What’s called a “remix” of “Telegraph Road” from Alchemy runs only 12 minutes, followed by shorter versions of the default title track and “Brothers In Arms”.Īs nutty as that all is, it’s still a good way to spend an hour, even given the fact that most of the people who bought the album would have already owned the three songs from Brothers In Arms. Then, for no reason we’ve been able to establish, it’s an alternate take of “Where Do You Think You’re Going”.įor a jolt, except for those who just flipped their record or cassette, “Walk Of Life” wheezes in, followed by a slightly edited “Private Investigations”. (In fact, it would have been played right before that little jig that segues into the first introduction to “Tunnel Of Love”.) Just to mess with us, a “remix” of “Twisting By The Pool” comes next, and only after that do we jump back to “Tunnel Of Love” and “Romeo & Juliet”. Then we’re surprised with a live version of “Portobello Belle”, which is dated June 1983 in the briefest of album notes, making it something of an outtake from Alchemy. The tracklist ran mostly chronologically through their handful of albums, beginning naturally with “Sultans Of Swing” and “Down To The Waterline”. With even less fanfare, an album called Money For Nothing snuck out toward the end of 1988 this turned out to be something of a hits collection, not that the title nor the video-inspired artwork made that clear. The band was exhausted, and Mark Knopfler was happy to concentrate on scoring films. While it wasn’t revealed in a major press release or even mentioned at the time-despite what Wikipedia says, because we would’ve remembered-Dire Straits had broken up following their lengthy tour promoting Brothers In Arms.
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