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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.
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 ...
From the producer of the acclaimed release “Guitars For Wounded Warriors” comes a brand new extraordinary album entitled “Brothers In Arms”! Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist/composer Brian Tarquin ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
That suited their style of music, which was also suited to stadium tours.” Brothers In Arms was the first album in history to sell more than one million copies in CD format and it remains one of ...