This month, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms album, which includes its iconic track, Money For Nothing, turned 40. As a keen music fan, I felt the need to offer a personal celebration of the album, and ...

It was actually a bigger selling single worldwide than Money For Nothing" and the album's title track. A special 40th anniversary edition of Brothers in Arms is set to be released tomorrow on CD ...

The overwhelming success of 'Brothers in Arms' tends to overshadow the catalog of Dire Straits. So here are five great Dire Straits tunes from the records that came before it.

Many may not realise it, but Brothers In Arms was the first CD album to break one million sales – a factor that heavily contributed to the format’s subsequent rapid growth. From a historical ...

Dire Straits will release a 3-CD expanded edition of their massively successful 1985 album Brothers in Arms on May 16. Two of the three CDs are dedicated to a previously unreleased live recording ...

Which is pretty much what Dire Straits became on the back of their fifth album. Brothers In Arms was UK Number 1 for 14 weeks and spent nine weeks on top of the US chart, scooping up worldwide sales ...

Set to celebrate its 40th anniversary on Saturday 17 May, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is many things - not least the album that’s viewed as the one that turned the world on to the compact disc. A ...

“We were going to have a really good album.” Illsley was proved right. Brothers In Arms, featuring classics like “Money For Nothing” and “Walk Of Life”, became a global ...

“The Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms just took off in 1985 and the huge sales encouraged all the major [labels] to release new product on CD as well as the album format,” says McLaughlin ...