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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Morgan Wallen celebrates his first-ever UK Number 1 album with I’m The Problem this week. It’s the second Top 40 LP for the ...

The British rock band, formed in 1977, has been breaking boundaries and making hits for their whole career. The self-titled ...