The Beatles and The Rolling Stones remain two of the most influential classic rock bands. The Fab Four sent several songs to the top of the charts, and the Stones also scored several No. 1 hits. Though not mentioned in the same breath, Dire Straits accomplished something the Beatles and Stones never could.
(l-r) Beatles bassist Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler, David Bowie, Mark King, and Bryan Adams | Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Dire Straits released ‘Brothers in Arms’ in 1985
Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler was nearly 30 years old when the band released their self-titled debut album in 1978. The single “Sultans of Swing” performed well on both sides of the Atlantic, but it was nothing compared to what happened seven years later.
They made seven other albums in their career, but Dire Straits’ 1985 record Brothers in Arms was practically a greatest hits package.
(l-r) Beatles bassist Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler, David Bowie, Mark King, and Bryan Adams | Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Dire Straits released ‘Brothers in Arms’ in 1985
Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler was nearly 30 years old when the band released their self-titled debut album in 1978. The single “Sultans of Swing” performed well on both sides of the Atlantic, but it was nothing compared to what happened seven years later.
They made seven other albums in their career, but Dire Straits’ 1985 record Brothers in Arms was practically a greatest hits package.
- 4/12/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Top Gun, the Smiths, The A-Team … popular culture reached its height in the 1980s – didn't it? Toby Litt on a decade he hated at the time, but is reluctantly starting to admire
There's a fantastically annoying ad on Spotify at the moment for yet another Hits of the 80s compilation CD. Voiceover man hails "the decade that just won't die" – which is true, even though, along with a large number of like-minded people, I spent most of the 80s doing my best to kill them. But with shoulder pads and bad prints being the order of the day summer-fashion-wise, with Wire magazine championing a genre of music they call "hypnagogic pop" ("it refashions 80s chart pop-rock into a hazy, psychedelic drone") and with the release of two blockbusting remakes on the same day – The Karate Kid and The A-Team – it seems that the 80s zombie everpresence is being reaffirmed, in pop culture and,...
There's a fantastically annoying ad on Spotify at the moment for yet another Hits of the 80s compilation CD. Voiceover man hails "the decade that just won't die" – which is true, even though, along with a large number of like-minded people, I spent most of the 80s doing my best to kill them. But with shoulder pads and bad prints being the order of the day summer-fashion-wise, with Wire magazine championing a genre of music they call "hypnagogic pop" ("it refashions 80s chart pop-rock into a hazy, psychedelic drone") and with the release of two blockbusting remakes on the same day – The Karate Kid and The A-Team – it seems that the 80s zombie everpresence is being reaffirmed, in pop culture and,...
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