It is 40 years since we embraced Dire Straits’s Brothers in Arms Mark Knopfler was Dire Straits: He wrote all the songs, broke pop music’s three-minute rule - and then broke all the records.

dIRE sTRAITS is not just a band, it's a legend that left an indelible mark on the music scene between 1977 and 1992. bROTHERS iN bAND is much more than a tribute band, it's a high-caliber musical ...

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.

With this in mind, the main reason I still love Brothers In Arms 40 years on is its music, and the stellar job the band and engineers did recording it. Dire Straits always took amazing care with the ...

Ralph celebrates Dire Straits Brothers In Arms album as it turns 40, looks ahead to this year's Blues On The Bay Festival in Warrenpoint and has tracks from The Doors, Mary Coughlan, The Pretty ...

From Sting barking on Money for Nothing to replacing the drummer halfway through, recording bestselling Brothers in Arms was an experience.

With forty years’ perspective, the release and subsequent massive success of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms (released 5/17/85) can camouflage what a superb work it is. Co-produced by the band’s ...

Dire Straits celebrate the release of iconic album 40 years ago with special new release In a decade where the music video was king, one album stood out, capturing the essence of an era.

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 ...

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms Reviewed: New edition reveals the soul beneath the sheen One of the first albums album recorded, mixed and mastered digitally gets the 40th anniversary treatment.

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?