5 Surprising Facts about Dire Straits' 'Brothers in Arms' Album - That Eric Alper

Mary Spender — The Dire Straits Story

In just a few short years, Dire Straits went from living in a run-down council flat in South-East London, and moving furniture for beer money, to playing hundreds of sold-out stadium shows a year, and creating some of the biggest selling records of the decade. On the surface, it looks like a dream career. But immense fame is a pressure cooker. The shows get bigger, but the walls get smaller. The brothers in arms would soon become brothers estran…

5 Surprising Facts about Dire Straits' 'Brothers in Arms' Album - That Eric Alper

Before Brothers in Arms, CDs were a novelty, Montserrat was just a speck on the map, and music videos were mostly mime and fog machines. But in 1985, Dire Straits took a leap so bold it changed the way records were made, heard, and sold. Brothers in Arms didn’t just top charts — it revolutionized […] The post 5 Surprising Facts about Dire Straits’ ‘Brothers in Arms’ Album appeared first on That Eric Alper.