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We look back on the story behind their mega-successful 1985 album Brothers In Arms, featuring brand new interviews with ...
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 ...
The cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms. The album is having a luxury reissue 40 years on. “Terry, in my view, was one of the best live drummers I’ve ever played with,” Illsley says.
This month, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms album, which includes its iconic track, Money For Nothing, turned 40. To celebrate, the band has released a new special edition LP and CD of its fifth ...
Snag 5 LPs, art prints, 16-page booklet, plus the album that gave you Sultans Of Swing, Your Latest Trick and more ...
Jack Sonni was part of the famous English rock band Dire Straits He toured with the band as "the other guitarist" in 1985 to promote their Brothers In Arms album Fans and former band members pay ...
Brothers In Arms and the Compact Disc revolution that never was Dire Straits’s slick, luxuriant album helped turn the CD into the shiny, indestructible future of audio. What went wrong?
Jack Sonni, an American guitarist who played on Dire Straits' 1985 album 'Brothers in Arms' and was onstage with the band at Live Aid that year, has died at 68.
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 ...
Released on Sept. 24, 1982, the LP burnished their reputation as one of mainstream rock's leading musos, three years before the multiplatinum Brothers in Arms transformed Dire Straits into superstars.