Brothers In Arms
Find out more about our use of this data. 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.
Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. "Brothers in Arms" is a song by Dire Straits, appearing as the closing track on the album of the same name. It was written in , the year of the Falklands.
Its production raised the bar for all music to come, its songs and videos became household items. It also almost destroyed the band. Having taken over the production duties on previous album Love Over Gold, he now went even further towards a kind of pop-oriented Americana.
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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.
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They toured this album for two years. After that amount of time surely any band would falter.
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They certainly had a very long hiatus. There are two studio recorded versions of this song: The version that appears on Dire Straits' greatest hits album, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits , is 4: The version included on the live album On the Night contains an extra pedal steel guitar solo and is 8: The full-length, studio album version 6: Mark Knopfler recorded and usually played the song on a Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar , rather than his usual Schecter "Stratocaster", [2] and the sunburst Les Paul appears in the distinctive promo video, which is in the style of a charcoal drawing, interspersing scenes of the band playing with scenes of war.
The decision to move to digital recording came from Knopfler's constant striving for better sound quality. Along with gruff nods to Dylan and James Burton. All songs were written by Mark Knopfler, except where indicated. The Very Best of Dire Straits version. Select albums in the Format field.
The song is reported to be the first CD single ever released; [3] it was released in the United Kingdom in The song's lyrics, influence, and impact were discussed from a variety of musical and personal perspectives in the BBC radio programme and podcast Soul Music first broadcast in September The music video uses rotoscoping and shows the band performing, overlaid with images of the First World War.
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