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Straits: Hammersmith Odeon, London  Richard Williams, Times,
The, 25 July 1983  FEW ROCK GROUPS depend as heavily for success
on an intimate engagement with the emotions of the listener as
Dire Straits, so it is a particular pleasure that they have
managed, as a part of their rise to enormous international
celebrity, to scale up their music to fit the huge arenas in
which they are now obliged to perform.  Total word count of
piece: 486