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8.11.05
The slow decline to 40 - part 1

Driving home from work this evening, listening to Simon Mayo's album chart show on Radio 2. He played 'Your Latest Trick' from a 'new' Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler compilation, rehashed released today. That's the track with an instrumental intro that's longer than most hit singles in their entirety. And I found myself thinking, "this is quite good actually". This is Dire Straits, who epitomised everything we were supposed to hate about music in the early 80s (even if I do have a 7" copy of 'Private Investigations'). Aaaaaaagh!


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