Watch Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' Video Also aiding Brothers in Arms ' steady ascent to No. 1 on the charts was Knopfler and Dorfsman's decision to record using a digital deck.

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 ...

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.

Set to celebrate its 40th anniversary on Saturday 17 May, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is many things ... "He knocked on the door with a synthesizer under his arm and we started working together." ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler ...

But the song from the album that cuts the deepest today, some thirty-six years since Dire Straits released their huge smash Brothers In Arms, is the title track.The song’s touching depiction of ...

Why Dire Straits’ “Brothers in Arms” Was Such a Poignant Choice for the Americans Finale In the closing episode’s greatest musical moment, they let the guitar speak. By Sam Adams.

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms by Gene DellaSala — December 07, 2006. Introduction . This CD was recorded in 1985 and soon became a classic thereafter. It was one if the first CD's which was mastered ...

In 1985, Dire Straits released “Brothers in Arms,” one of the world’s best-selling albums, with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. The album garnered a Grammy in 1986 for Best Engineered ...

Dire Straits' former guitarist Jack Sonni, who played on Brothers in Arms tour, dead at 68 Topic: Death and Dying Fri 1 Sep 2023 Friday 1 September 2023 Fri 1 Sep 2023 at 4:11am ...