Background
Following the release of Dire Straits' final studio album, On Every Street, and a grueling fifteen-month world tour of Europe, North America, and Australia—a tour seen by 7.1 million people that ended in October 1992—Knopfler quietly dissolved the popular British rock band that had become one of the world's most commercially successful bands, with worldwide album sales of over 120 million. He would later recall, "I put the thing to bed because I wanted to get back to some kind of reality. It's self-protection, a survival thing. That kind of scale is dehumanising." He spent two years recovering from the experience, which had taken a toll on his creative and personal life. In 1994, he began work on what would become his first solo album.
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