The band’s seminal album, which was its fifth study launch, is still one of the best -selling albums in the world, after having sold more than 30 million copies worldwide so far, with Dire Straits still popular.
Teenage boys hooked on their rooms and even their new romantic brides hooked. Parents exploded during the morning driving, while young people Added to the aerial guitars as they settled on MTV for the first time.
It was Everryman’s album par excellence: Although many fans only recently realize the meaning of the band’s name – This captured the essence of the 80’s. It seemed that everyone had a copy and everyone worshiped it, regardless of whether they were hardcore fans or not.
“All Killers and No Fillers” is like Jamie Dickson Music Critics of Guitist Magazine summarized the brothers of Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, which celebrates its 40th anniversary tomorrow. “It was the seminal album of the band that is unusual, because it usually happens towards the beginning of the life on the one hand, not the end,” he shared with Daily Express.
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“But it was really a cultural phenomenon, mounting the MTV wave ridge when the videos suddenly were very important. This adapted to its music style, which was also appropriate for visits to the stadium.”
Brothers in Arms maintains the distinction of being the first album to sell more than one million copies on CD, and is still one of the best -selling albums in the world, with sales of more than 30 million worldwide, according to the world. The express.
The album held the first place on the UK album graph for 14 weeks, reigned on Billboard 200 in the United States for nine weeks and dominated the graph of Australian albums for 34 weeks. It was the first album to reach the certification of Platinum ten times in the United Kingdom and was classified as the eighth best -selling album in the history of the UK graph.
Several singles came from the album, including the first success in the United States “and Record and Down to Boad Apers and feeling money for the first time. I thought that the song itself could be a bit of success, but no one could have predicted what would happen to this album. Walk of Life was not even on the record. It was actually a single one who came around the world.”
which maintains the distinction of being the first video posted on MTV in Britain. Other hits include “SO Far Away,
“I remember going down rehearsals and having heard money for the first time. I thought the song itself could be a bit of success, but no one could have predicted what would happen to this album. Walk of Life would not even go to the record. It was actually a larger sale worldwide than money for nothing” and the album theme.
A special edition of the 40th-Anniversary of Brothers in Arms will be published tomorrow on CD, Vinyl and Blu-ray. This edition includes a live concert of 14 unpublished courts, album cover art cards and interview notes on the band.
Despite his monumental success, Dire Straits, in front of the guitarist and singer -songwriter Mark Knopfler, now 75, is perhaps the most unpleasant pop band you could think. Dickson shares: “I interviewed Mark three times in his London Grove studies and he really loves his guitars. He is an attentive man who is completely focused on his song composition and is not bothered at the image. It’s music.”
The fan of a lifetime believes that “the album once in generation gave men permission to feel something.”
The album offered a little bit for everyone, says the critic, quoting the mobile title song that paid tribute to all unknown soldiers, and was inspired by the consequences of the War of the Fadies. It presents what he calls a “spine opening” that leads to the “Walk of Life” of high energy and in the 1980’s they reached “money for nothing”.
The critic stated: “ Knopfler has a rare gift, this gift to do -feel something. It can touch and can sing, it is the whole package: a real guitarist of the superstar who made the success of the transition to the main current and is there with BB King and Clapton. The brothers in arms are one of those albums that meant something for so many people. ”
Knopfler’s roots go back to Glasgow, with their education in Blyth, near Newcastle. His father, Erwin Knopfler, an architect and fan of Hungarian Jewish descent, fled from Hungary to escape the Nazis.
Mark Knopfler would continue to refer to his father as a Marxist-Agnost.
Despite the discomfort for a costly guitar of Stratocaster Fender Fiesta as Hank Marvin during his youth, he finally obtained a Höfner twin super-solid with a price of £ 50 (which has approximately £ 1,500 in current money).
In 1963, at the age of 13, Knopfler did a Saturday work in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle newspaper, winning six shillings and Sispence. After studying journalism for a year at Harlow College in 1968, he worked as a journalist in Leeds for the Yorkshire Evening Post.
He then pursued English at Leeds University, graduated in 1973 before moving to London. There he joined the Brewer’s Droop band and also worked as a teacher at Laughton College for three years.
Finally, Knopfler formed Dire Straits in London in 1977 at the age of 28, with his younger brother, David, who left during the third album of the band making films.
In November 1984, Mark Knopfler mounted Dire Straits a Air Studios on the Caribbean Island of Monserrat to create his fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms. Dire Straits manager Ed Bicknell recalled: “ I remember going down rehearsals and having heard money for the first time. I thought the song itself could be a bit of success, but no one could have predicted what would happen to this album. Walk of Life was not even on the record. It was actually a biggest selling world.
The arms brothers passed the Global album graphs and won two Grammys and a Brit Award. John Illlsley, the bassist, shared, “We spent a lot of time in rehearsals playing with different ideas, so we were quite ready when we went to Monserrat to start recording. Then we had a problem with the tape machine after three weeks of being there.
“During the night, the digital tape machine decided to erase something like 70% of all the things we had recorded. This was the first days of digital and we had to start recording again.”
In a talk with the place of music Lundersound.com, John added: “The brothers in Arms that followed was a great one, this was safe. It was a conscience that the band had reached a point that was quite unique and, in the main one, it is best to leave these good memories intact.”
After Dire Straits dissolved in 1995, Knopfler started in a solo career and has since produced 10 solo albums. He has also composed and produced film scores for nine films and has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman.
However, despite all his musical successes, the brothers in arms are still the zenith of his career, although he has confessed that he faced the magnitude of his success.
Knopfler thought, “It’s like someone who threw a thread, unveiling the sweater, unless the sweater is you,” to encapsulate the feeling of the brothers’ phenomenon in arms and the madness of the state of super-cellar. Penning the prologue to the memory of John Itlsley’s 2022, ‘My life in dire direits”, Knopfler reflected on the intense global frantic on the album.
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“We were fortunate that we were not teenagers, who would have been fatal. Although we received a lot of international attention, I’m not sure now. John and I feel extremely lucky and we always have, it was the time before downloading and piracy, a moment that could support races in music.”
He went further to articulate, with a touch of his experienced experienced music industry, “today recording contracts often do not last more than an album or two,” acknowledging “Brothers in Arms” as the band’s fifth monumental album. “There is music and there is the music business. We had to learn to deal with some of the most negative aspects of the game, but John and I always evaluated and appreciate success.”
With the slope of rock ‘n’ roll, Knopfler represented the unfortunate journey of elaboration of a soundtrack that defines the generation, and a fundamental album, such as “A Hell of a Ride”.
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