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.

One of the most distinct bands to come out of the '70s and '80s was Dire Straits. The band had an incredibly unique sound, propelling them into the history books of rock music. Albums like their self ...

Or how one lesson with a folk singer from the northeast of England (and a bunch of lost picks) changed the history of ...

From Sting barking on Money for Nothing to replacing the drummer halfway through, recording the band’s bestselling album was ...

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

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Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms 'summed up the 1980s' and was the ultimate 'everyman' record that just about everyone had a ...

It was the quintessential everyman's album - despite many fans only recently realizing the meaning of the bands name - that ...

A special 40th anniversary edition of Brothers in Arms will be released tomorrow on CD, vinyl and Blu-Ray. It features a ...

One of the first albums album recorded, mixed and mastered digitally gets the 40th anniversary treatment. Read MOJO's review ...

Dire Straits’s slick, luxuriant album helped turn the CD into the shiny, indestructible future of audio. What went wrong?