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BEHIND AN UNMARKED door in a nondescript West London street, you’ll find the recording studio of the world’s most reluctant rock god. Do this job long enough and you’ll learn to spot the artists who p

After four Top 5 albums, Dire Straits were doing well but were hardly a household name. That all changed when they made Brothers In Arms . Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Guy Fletcher take us back.

The instrument that featured on the cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is still very much in use.

Tracks II: The Lost Albums SONY

Hergest Ridge (50th Anniversary) UMC

It’s standard to link Brothers In Arms retrospectively – and somewhat haughtily – with helping usher in the CD era and its accompanying baggage: MTV, Sloane Rangers, yuppies and the progression from M