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Dire Straits
Artist Icon Brothers in Arms (1985)
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Brothers in Arms (englisch für: „Waffenbrüder“) ist das fünfte Studioalbum der britischen Rockband Dire Straits. Das 1985 veröffentlichte Album wurde als das erfolgreichste der Gruppe über 30 Millionen Mal verkauft und zählt damit zu den dreißig meistverkauften Alben der Musikgeschichte. Außerdem hatte es als eine der ersten digitalen Albumproduktionen großen Anteil an der Etablierung des Mediums Compact Disc.

Das Album wurde als eine der ersten Produktionen für die Veröffentlichung als CD ausgelegt und komplett digital (DDD) aufgenommen. Auf der fast 10 Minuten längeren CD-Version ist kein Bonustitel enthalten, wie es damals häufig der Fall war, um den deutlich höheren Preis der CD gegenüber einer Vinyl-LP zu rechtfertigen. Stattdessen sind mehrere Lieder deutlich länger als die entsprechenden LP-Versionen (u. a. Your Latest Trick und Why Worry). Brothers in Arms gilt als das erste Album, das in CD-Form einen derartigen Vorteil gegenüber der Schallplattenversion hat. Verantwortlich für die Produktion zeichneten Mark Knopfler und Neil Dorfsman.
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29 Million copies sold. Third best-selling album of all time in the UK. First album to succeed in the CD market, Grammy winning, earner of enough Platinum to build a house: Brothers In Arms is a phenomenon on every level. Its production raised the bar for all music to come, its songs and videos became household items. It also almost destroyed the band.
By 1984, incessant touring and recording schedules hadn’t dimmed Mark Knopfler’s enthusiasm for perfection. Having taken over the production duties on previous album Love Over Gold, he now went even further towards a kind of pop-oriented Americana. Brothers…has a fine array of chart moments, including, of course, the Sting-assisted video hit “Money for Nothing”, the moody “So far Away” and faux bop “Walk Of Life”. But it gets them out of the way in the manner of mere aperitifs and then massages you with a suite of Knopfler’s very fine brand of JJ Cale-lite. Along with gruff nods to Dylan and James Burton. Like contemporaries U2 they had the golden touch that made their gold instantly more American and mythical than most acts from the States.
They toured this album for two years. After that amount of time surely any band would falter. They certainly had a very long hiatus. This album was bigger than them. On that final night of the tour in they must have never wanted to hear a note of this album again. Twenty years on, it’s still echoing around the world. As inescapable as ever.


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