The Communiqué Tour started in February 1979 in Rotterdam, four months before the album's release on 15 June. Ĭommuniqué was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States and on 19 September 2000 in the United States.ĭire Straits toured throughout 1979 after the recording sessions were completed. " Lady Writer" was the first single released from the album, which continued in a similar vein as its predecessor, displaying the expanding scope of Knopfler's lyricism on the opening track, " Once Upon a Time in the West". It entered the German charts at number one in its first week of release, while their debut album, Dire Straits was still at the number three position. Bear) also contributed keyboards to some of the album's nine tracks.Ĭommuniqué was released on vinyl LP and cassette on 15 June 1979, eight months after the release of their first album, Dire Straits. The album was produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, veteran producers from Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. The album was mixed in January 1979 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. The recording sessions for Communiqué took place from 28 November to 12 December 1978 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau. After the Dire Straits Tour finished in Hitchin on 18 November 1978, Dire Straits set to work on recording their second album.
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