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’ Brothers In Arms album, which includes its iconic track, Money For Nothing, turned 40.To celebrate, the band ...

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 ...

With forty years' perspective, the release and subsequent massive success of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms (released 5/17/85) can camouflage what a ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits ... to have a really good album.” Illsley was proved right. Brothers In Arms, featuring classics like ...

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 ...

In November 1984, Mark Knopfler gathered Dire Straits at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Monserrat to make their fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms. Dire Straits manager Ed Bicknell said ...

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 ...

Legendary ’80s Band Reveals Revolutionary Guitar Riff Was 'An Accident' first appeared on Parade on May 22, 2025 Whether you ...