Sunan ƙungiyar Dire Straits za a iya fassara shi cikin Rashanci ta kowace hanya - "Yanayin matsananciyar yanayi", "Matsalar yanayi", "Yanayin wahala", a kowane hali, kalmar ba ta ƙarfafawa.
A halin yanzu, mazan, bayan sun fito da irin wannan suna don kansu, sun zama mutanen da ba su da camfi, kuma, a fili, shine dalilin da yasa aka saita aikin su.
Aƙalla a cikin shekaru tamanin, ƙungiyar ta zama ɗaya daga cikin mafi mahimmanci da nasara a kasuwanci a tarihin kiɗan zamani.
A cikin 1977, yara maza biyu na Burtaniya, ’yan’uwa Mark da David Knopfler, sun gayyaci abokansu John Illsley da Peak Withers don fara kunna kiɗa tare.
'Yan uwa sun dauki katar, John ya sami ɗan wasan bass, kuma Peak ya zauna a kayan ganga. A cikin wannan abun da ke ciki, sun fara maimaitawa, suna haɓaka ƙwarewar aikin su.
Tushen wasan kwaikwayo na ƙungiyar shine waƙoƙin ƙwararren Mark Knopfler a cikin salon blues-rock wanda ya haɗa da ƙasa, rock da roll da jazz. Kuma waɗannan ƙagaggun abubuwan da aka tsara na tunani sun zama amsar da ta dace ga dutsen ɗanɗano mai walƙiya da ƙazanta wanda ke daɗa ƙarfi a lokacin.
A farkon matakai na Dire Straits
Wani mawaƙin waje wanda a lokacin yana zaune a ɗaki ɗaya da ɗan ganga Withers ya gabatar da sunan dire Straits mai ban takaici amma abin ban tsoro.
A wannan lokacin, mutanen suna fuskantar matsalolin kuɗi da gaske, sun kasance "ƙasa", don haka sunan ƙungiyar ya dace daidai.
A cikin shekarar farko ta wanzuwarsa, Knopflers da abokansa sun yi rikodin kaset na matukin jirgi, wanda ya haɗa da waƙoƙi guda biyar, ciki har da makomar Sultans of Swing, kuma sun ba da damar sauraron ra'ayoyin wani sanannen gidan rediyon BBC, Charlie Gillette.
Abin da ya ji ya burge Charlie Gillette, wanda nan da nan ya sanya "Sultans" a iska. Waƙar ta tafi ga mutane, kuma bayan watanni biyu ƙungiyar ta riga ta sanya hannu kan kwangila tare da Records na phonogram.
Kundin na farko an yi rikodin shi a cikin ɗakin studio na Basing Street. Sun yi aiki a cikin watan Fabrairun 1978, sun kashe fiye da fam dubu 12 don yin rikodi, amma ba su sami damar fitar da rabo na musamman don aikinsu ba.
Ba a tallata rikodin ba da kyau, masu suka kuma jama'a sun mayar da martani ga sakin a hankali. Koyaya, a lokaci guda, Dire Straits sun fara aikin kide-kide, suna yin kide kide da wake-wake na hadin gwiwa tare da manyan Shugabannin Magana.
Ba'amurke daga Warner Bros. ya ja hankali ga Birtaniya. Records, wanda ya fito da kundi na halarta na farko a Amurka kuma ya rarraba shi kusan ko'ina cikin duniya.
Dutsen ƙasa, asalinsa daga London, ya ci nasara ba kawai Amurkawa zaɓaɓɓu ba, har ma da ƴan ƙasar Kanada, Australiya da New Zealanders. Wannan aikin ya samu karbuwa sosai a Turai.
A cikin 79, mutanen sun yi wani babban yawon shakatawa na nahiyar Arewacin Amirka, inda suka yi wasanni hamsin a cikin wata guda a cikin dakunan dakunan.
Fitaccen jarumin nan Bob Dylan ya ziyarci wurin wasan kwaikwayo nasu a Los Angeles, wasan kwaikwayon ya burge shi kuma ya gayyaci Mark Knopfler da Peak Withers don yin rikodin albam nasu Slow Train Coming.
Rikodin fayafai na biyu, mai suna Communique Dire Straits, ya fara ne a ƙarshen 78 a cikin Bahamas. An sake shi a lokacin rani na 79 kuma ya tabbatar da layin farko na sigogin Jamus.
An saki abun da ke ciki Lady Writer a matsayin guda ɗaya. Kundin ya ci gaba da haɓaka layin guda ɗaya wanda ya haɓaka a farkon. A cikin kiɗa da rubutu, aikin ya juya ya zama cikakke, amma har yanzu tare da sautin "monochrome" iri ɗaya.
Canje-canjen kiɗa da layi
A cikin Yuli 80, ƙungiyar ta fara aiki a kan diski na uku kuma ta kammala shi da kaka. Yayin da ake yin rikodi, 'yan'uwan Knopfler sun yi rikici da juna.
Mark ya dage kan fadada palette na kiɗa, kuma Dauda ya gaskata cewa ƙungiyar tana buƙatar haɓaka tsohuwar jijiya da ta kawo masa nasara.
A ƙarshe, David ya bar Dire Straits tare da ban dariya, ta yadda ba a ma ambaci shigarsa a yin Fina-finai a hannun rikodi ba, wani mawaƙi ya ƙara sassan guitar na rhythm.
Ƙungiyar ta ci gaba da rangadi tare da sababbin mambobi biyu: mawallafin keyboard Alan Clark da guitarist Hal Lindes.
Yin Fina-Finai ya banbanta da ayyukan da suka gabata na Dire Straits ta hanyar murɗaɗɗen zane-zanen dutse, da sarƙaƙƙiyar shirye-shirye da tsayin abubuwan da aka tsara, wanda ya zama alamar ƙungiyar a nan gaba.
Abubuwan da suka shafi kai tsaye na Mark Knopfler, masanin ilimin falsafa ta hanyar ilimi, ya kafa tushen wakokin kundi. Waƙar da ta fi nasara daga wannan kundi ita ce Romeo da Juliet, wanda ke ba da labari game da ƙauna mara kyau kusan a cewar Shakespeare.
Ana la'akari da ƙwararren ɗakin studio na gaba na ƙungiyar Love over Gold, idan ba mafi kyawun ba, to ɗayan ... a cikin hotunan su.
Ƙwararrun mawaƙa ta kai kololuwarta, kuma dogayen ɗakunan dutsen sun yi farin ciki da ƙwaƙƙwaran tsari da kuma tsara hanyoyin magance iri-iri. Gwajin ya yi nasara.
A cikin kaka na 1982, kundin ya sami ƙwararriyar zinari a cikin Jihohi kuma ya haura tsayi a yawancin sigogin Turai.
A cikin tsakiyar perestroika, har ma da kamfanin rikodi na Soviet Melodiya ya fitar da wannan rikodin ban mamaki a cikin USSR, ba tare da yankewa ba kuma tare da ainihin ƙirar murfin gaba!
Sai dai idan sunan kungiyar da diski kanta da aka buga a cikin Cyrillic - "Love ya fi zinariya tsada", kuma shugaban kungiyar ya bayyana a karkashin sunan Knopfler - masu fassara sun ruɗe da harafin "maɓalli" a farkon. Harshen Turanci.
Abin lura shi ne cewa Mark da kansa ya samar da wannan album gaba daya kuma ya ƙunshi waƙoƙi biyar kawai - biyu a gefen farko, uku kuma a na biyu.
Titin Telegraph na farko yana ɗaukar fiye da mintuna 14, amma ƙirar waƙa, ɗan lokaci, da yanayi suna canzawa sau da yawa a cikinsa, wanda ake saurare cikin numfashi ɗaya.
Peak Withers ya bar ƙungiyar jim kaɗan bayan fitar da kundin. An maye gurbinsa da mai kaɗa Terry Williams. Tare da wannan mutumin a cikin abun da ke ciki, an yi rikodin kundi mai rai biyu Alchemy: Dire Straits Live.
An sake shi ba kawai akan vinyl ba, har ma a kan CD ɗin da ke samun farin jini.
Yan'uwa a Makamai
Kafin sabon 1984 Dire Straits ya koma ɗakin studio don yin rikodin sabon kundi, na biyar. Daga baya, an kira shi mafi mahimmancin diski a cikin taskar ƙungiyar kanta, da kuma na tsawon shekaru goma.
A wannan lokacin, ƙarin organist Guy Fletcher daga Roxy Music ya shiga ƙungiyar, mawallafin guitar Hal Lindes ya bar, kuma Ba'amurke Jack Sonny an ɗauke shi daga jihar don maye gurbinsa.
Terry Williams ya ci gaba da zama musamman don faifan bidiyo na kiɗa da kide-kide, kuma a cikin ɗakin studio an damƙa ganguna ga mawaƙin jazz Omar Hakim.
Tuna gabatarwar Kudi don Babu Komai, inda kafin sanannen hutun guitar, igiyar synth da bugun drum suna haɓaka - don haka Williams ya karye da ƙarfi.
Rikodin mu'ujiza ya bayyana a cikin bazara na 1985 kuma ya ci dukan duniya ba tare da togiya ba. Yawancin waƙoƙi daga kundin sun ɗauki wurare mafi girma a cikin sigogi: na farko, ba shakka, Kudi don Babu wani abu, na biyu, Brothers a Arms da Walk of Life.
Waƙar "Kudi don iska", wanda Mark Knopfler ya tsara tare da goyon bayan Sting, ya lashe Grammy.
Nasarar kasuwanci da Brothers In Arms ya samu ba kaɗan ba saboda kasancewar CD na farko a tarihi da aka buga a cikin kwafi miliyan.
An ce wannan aikin ne ya inganta tsarin CD na musamman tare da samar da shi jagoranci a tsakanin kafofin watsa labarai na audio na shekaru masu zuwa.
Yawon shakatawa na tallafawa kundin ya yi babban nasara. Af, wasan kwaikwayo na farko na yawon shakatawa ya faru a Yugoslav Split, kuma ba a Ingila ko kuma a ko'ina cikin Yammacin Turai ba.
A yayin wasan kwaikwayo a gida, ƙungiyar ta shiga cikin mafi kyawun sadaka ta Live Aid a kan hanya.
Dire Straits sun rera wakoki guda biyu: Sultans of Swing and Money For Nothing with Sting. Yaƙin duniya ya ƙare a Sydney (Ostiraliya), inda Dire Straits ya kafa tarihin wasan kwaikwayo - 16 ya nuna a cikin dare 20.
"Brothers in Arms" sun ci nasara da masu sauraro da kuma kasashen waje: makonni 9 a saman jerin kundin kundin Billboard - wannan ba abin dariya ba ne a gare ku!
Da kyau, sanannen bidiyon MTV don mafi kyawun abu daga kundin kada a rage shi:
Rabu, amma ba har abada ba
Da alama yana da kyau a buga yayin da ƙarfe ke da zafi kuma fara rikodin fayafai na gaba nan da nan. Amma Mark Knopfler ya wargaza ƙungiyar na ɗan lokaci saboda aikin solo da rubuta kiɗa don fina-finai.
Mutanen sun sake haduwa a wajen wani taron kade-kade da aka hada domin girmama bikin cika shekaru 70 na Nelson Mandela a ranar 11 ga watan Yunin 1988, kuma bayan watanni uku an sanar da rusa kungiyar a hukumance.
Shekaru biyu bayan haka, Dire Straits sun shiga cikin filin wasan a cikin wani shiri mai rai, inda Cliff Richards, Elton John, Farawa, Pink Floyd da sauran taurarin dutsen duniya da yawa suka yi ban da su.
Kundin karshe
A farkon 91, tsofaffin abokai Mark Knopfler da John Illsley sun yanke shawarar sake tara ƙungiyar, suna gayyatar Alan Clark da Guy Fletcher don tabbatarwa.
Yawancin mawaƙa na zaman sun shiga cikin kamfani har zuwa wannan kwata-kwata, daga cikinsu yana da kyau a haskaka saxophonist Chris White, mawallafin guitar Phil Palmer, mai buga ganga Jeff Porcaro daga Toto.
Kundin A Kowane Titin ya ci gaba da siyarwa a cikin Satumba 1991. Duk da cewa shekaru shida magoya baya rasa Dire Straits kuma ba sa fatan jin wani sabon abu daga gare ta, nasarar kasuwanci ya zama abin mamaki mai ladabi, sake dubawa sun kasance masu tsaka tsaki.
A cikin Burtaniya ɗaya kawai rikodin ya kai layin farko, amma a cikin Amurka ya gamsu da matsayi na goma sha biyu kawai.
A tsawon lokaci, darajar aikin ƙarshe na ƙungiyar ya karu sosai, kuma bayan shekaru da yawa, zamu iya amincewa da amincewa: wannan misali ne mai kyau na kiɗa na zamani.
