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 ...

In November 1984, Mark Knopfler assembled Dire Straits at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Monserrat to produce their fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms.

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 - not least the album that’s viewed as the one that turned the world on to the compact ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 star Mark Knopfler is to auction more than 120 of his guitars and amps, with 25% of the proceeds going to charity.

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?

Dire Straits will release an expanded version of their 1985 album 'Brothers in Arms' in May 2025.