LH - Stargazing
CAJ - A Fistful of Ice cream (that i now realise is Private Investigation revisited?)
C - The long road
TPB - Storybook love
LETB - A Love idea
N&N - There'll be some changes made
GH - My Claim to Fame
WTD - Just instinct
M - She's gone
STP - Long Highway
ASAG - Four in a row
TRD - Old Pigweed
SL - Don'T crash the ambulance
ATRR - Dug up a diamond
RLR - All that matters
KTGC - Madame Geneva's
GL - So Far from the Clyde
P - Follow The Ribbon
Altamira - Altamira
T - Lights of Taormina
DTRW - One song at the time
I don't think that A Fistful of Ice cream is Private Investigation revisited, I rather think it's the contrary...
I think that A Fistful of Ice cream was the first arrangement Mark had for the song. In the Oldfield book, he talks about a "melody in italian cinema style".
So I think he had this kind of melody in head first.
Then, he composed PI and changed it a little bit, adding the News outro from OL tour
and then, after, when he recorded the Comfort & Joy soundtrack, he came up again with his first idea of the music
well, of course, it's just speculation ...
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/une-chanson-a-la-loupe-private-investigations-de-dire-straits/#Lorigine_du_morceau