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DIRE STRAITS
THE CLASSIC MANDELA BROADCAST
COMPACT DISC
Item no. :UNCD075 Barcode :0823564038391 Artist :DIRE STRAITS Product type :Compact Disc Label :UNICORN Release Date :05 July 2024
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Broadcast across 67 countries to a worldwide audience of 600 million people, the 1988 Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert, which took place on the great man’s 70th birthday at Wembley Stadium in London, featured performances from a host of top artists of the day. Simple Minds, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder and numerous others all played on the day, but probably the finest performance came from Dire Straits who had recently split up, but were persuaded to reform for the event, bringing in Eric Clapton on guitar and backing vocals to accompany them. Signed on to close the show, performing a superb set made up of Dire Straits classics alongside a glorious version of Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’, the whole event was sealed by quite staggering musicianship.
1 Walk Of Life 6:25
2 Sultans Of Swing 10:39
3 Romeo And Juliet 11:13
4 Money For Nothing
5 Brothers In Arms
6 Wonderful Tonight
7 Solid Rock 5:34
Mandela was still an imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary in South Africa at the time of the concert, but
the event is considered a pivotal step leading to his eventual release, in February 1990, following 27 years of
incarceration. Unlike the Live Aid concert a few years earlier, the Mandela show was not primarily a
fundraiser (even though it still made £5million) but an event intended to raise awareness worldwide of the
injustice occurring under the apartheid regime in South Africa at the time. Most pertinently, it was staged to
highlight the lengthy imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other senior ANC members, who had been
arrested and held for attempting to change the system in the country almost 30 years before
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