Through Vertigo Records internationally and through Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It is credited with being the first album in recorded history to sell over one million copies in CD format.
Brothers in Arms spt a total of 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (including t consecutive weeks betwe 18 January and 22 March 1986), nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States and 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. It was the first album certified t-times platinum in the UK
It is certified nine-times platinum in the United States and is one of the world's best-selling albums, having sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
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The album won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best gineered Album, Non-Classical and Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards; the 20th Anniversary reissue won another Grammy in 2006 for Best Surround Sound Album. Q magazine ranked Brothers in Arms number 51 on its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
Brothers in Arms was recorded at the now-abandoned AIR Studios in Montserrat (pictured in 2013) which was home to many famous artists and bands in the late '70s and '80s.
Brothers in Arms was recorded from October 1984 to February 1985 at AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
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The album was produced by songwriter Mark Knopfler and Neil Dorfsman, who had gineered Dire Straits' 1982 album Love over Gold and Knopfler's 1983 soundtrack album Local Hero.
Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums recorded on a Sony 24-track digital tape machine. The decision to move to digital recording came from Knopfler's constant striving for better sound quality. One of the things that I totally respected about him, Dorfsman observed, was his interest in technology as a means of improving his music. He was always willing to spd on high-quality equipmt.
Before arriving at Montserrat, Knopfler had writt all the songs and rehearsed them with the band. The studio lineup included Knopfler (guitar), John Illsley (bass), Alan Clark (piano, Hammond B-3 organ and synthesisers) and Guy Fletcher, who was new to the band, playing a synth rig that consisted of a huge new Yamaha DX1, a couple of Roland synthesizers and a Synclavier. Guitarist Hal Lindes left the band early on in the sessions, and was replaced in December 1984 by Jack Sonni, a New York-based guitarist and longstanding frid of Knopfler (although Sonni's contribution to the album was minimal).
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The studio itself was small, with a 20-by-25-foot (6 m × 8 m) recording space that offered virtually no isolation. It was a good-sounding studio, Dorfsman later recalled, but the main room itself was nothing to write home about. The sound of that studio was the desk, referring to the Neve 8078 board.
Knopfler and Dorfsman utilised the limited space to best effect, placing the drum kit in the far left corner, facing the control room, miked with Snheiser MD 421s on the toms, an Electro-Voice RE20 and AKG D12 on the kick drum, a Shure SM57 and AKG C451 with a 20 dB pad on the snare, 451s for overheads and the hi-hat, and Neumann U87s set back a little to capture some kind of ambice.
They placed the piano in a tight booth in the far right corner of the studio, miked with AKG C414s. The Hammond B3 was placed nearby, with its Leslie speaker crammed into an airlock next to the control room. Illsley's bass amplifier was recorded inside a small vocal booth with a Neumann FET 47 and a DI unit. Knopfler's amplifiers were miked with 57s, 451s, and Neumann U67s. Fletcher's synths were placed in the control room.
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During the recording of Money for Nothing, the signature sound of Knopfler's guitar may have be hanced by a happy accidt of microphone placemt. Knopfler was using his Gibson Les Paul going through a Laney amplifier. While setting up the guitar amplifier microphones in an effort to get the ZZ Top sound that Knopfler sought, guitar tech Ron Eve, who was in the control room, heard the amazing sound before Dorfsman was finished arranging the mics. One mic was pointing down at the floor, Dorfsman remembered, another was not quite on the speaker, another was somewhere else, and it wasn't how I would want to set things up—it was probably just left from the night before, wh I'd be preparing things for the next day and had not really finished the setup.
According to a Sound on Sound magazine interview with Neil Dorfsman, during the first month of the recording sessions the performance of Terry Williams was considered to be unsuitable for the desired sound of the album. Williams was not fired from the band, but he was released from the recording sessions and temporarily replaced by jazz session drummer Omar Hakim, who re-recorded all the album's drum parts during a two-day stay before leaving for other commitmts.
Although Williams' only contribution was the improvised crescdo at the beginning of Money for Nothing. The remaining tracks all featured Omar Hakim as drummer.
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Dorfsman and Knopfler made the decision to erase Williams' contributions and replace them with those of Hakim; however, all the music videos that were released from the album featured Williams.
Although Andy Kanavan was briefly recruited as Dire Straits' new drummer, Terry Williams rejoined the band for the promotional concert world tour which lasted until April 1986.
A defective batch of recording tape at AIR Studios resulted in the loss of part or all of three album tracks, leading to follow-up sessions being recorded at the Power Station in New York during early 1985
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. During this time, overdubs were recorded with further New York musicians including Michael and Randy Brecker, Mike Mainieri (who'd previously contributed vibraphone to Love Over Gold) and Jimmy Mael, plus trumpeter Dave Plews and Average White Band saxophonist Malcolm Duncan. Wh Illsey sprained his wrist in a roller-skating accidt, several promint New York studio bassists were hired to record or re-record several basslines on the record (Tony Levin on 'Why Worry' and Saturday Night Live house band bassist Neil Jason on 'One World').
The music video for Money for Nothing received heavy rotation on MTV, and it was the first to be aired on MTV Europe wh the network launched on 1 August 1987.
It is one of only two Dire Straits songs on a studio album not to be solely credited to Knopfler (the other being The Carousel Waltz, which ops Making Movies), with guest vocalist Sting giv a co-writing credit due to the melody of the repeated I want my MTV (sung by Sting) in the song's fadeout echoing the melody of the Police's Don't Stand So Close to Me.
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Walk of Life was a number two hit in the UK Singles Chart in early 1986 and a number sev hit in the US Billboard Hot 100 later that year. The song was nearly left off the album, but was included after the band out-voted producer Neil Dorfsman.
On the second side of the album, three songs (Ride Across the River, The Man's Too Strong and Brothers in Arms) are lyrically focused on militarism. Ride Across the River uses immersive Latin American imagery, accompanied by synthesized pan flute, mariachi trumpet, a reggae-influced drum part and eerie background noises. The Man's Too Strong depicts the character of an ancit soldier (or war criminal) and his fear of showing feelings as a weakness. Writt during the 1982 Falklands War, Brothers in Arms deals with the sselessness of war.
In 2007, the 25th anniversary of the war, Knopfler recorded a new version of the song at Abbey Road Studios to raise funds for British veterans who he said are still suffering from the effects of that conflict.
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The back cover features a painting of the same guitar, by German artist Thomas Steyer. A similar image was also used, with a similar colour scheme, for the 1989 album The Booze Brothers by Brewers Droop.
Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums directed at the CD market, and it was a full digital recording (DDD) at a time wh most popular music was recorded on analog equipmt. It was also released on vinyl (abridged to fit on one LP) and cassette. Producer Neil Dorfsman says the digital multitrack was mixed on an analog board with the resulting two track mix re-digitized via a Prism A/D converter and recorded on a DAT machine.
Brothers in Arms was the first album to sell one million copies in the CD format and to outsell its LP version. A Rykodisc employee subsequtly wrote, [In 1985 we] were fighting to get our CDs manufactured because the tire worldwide manufacturing capacity was overwhelmed by demand for a single rock title (Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms).
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It was remastered and reissued with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States and on 19 September 2000 in the United States, the remastering for both reissues was done by Bob Ludwig at
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