It still sold in big numbers though. This was the first greatest hits album from Dire Straits, released in October 1988. The album covered their first five studio albums and presented an extensive ...

Credit: Phil Dent/Redferns Mark Knopfler has been celebrated for his guitar tone since Dire Straits dropped their self-titled debut album in 1977. From the moment guitarists heard the album hit ...

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 ...

As it has happened many times in music history with the greatest bands, everything coalesced for Dire Straits on the magical third album. Superstar status was coming, but this record was their ...

Dire Straits always took amazing care with the recording and mastering of their albums, and Brothers In Arms is a great example of that. Despite being recorded on, at the time, cutting-edge technology ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler ...

Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing is among the latest landmark releases to be remastered for Dolby Atmos this year. The British group’s 1988 compilation is among their best-sellers with more ...

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