Dire Straits will release a 3-CD/ 5-Lp set expanded edition of their massively successful 1985 album “Brothers in Arms” on May 16th. One of the world’s best-selling albums ever, Dire Straits’ “Brothers In Arms“, celebrates its 40th anniversary with this exquisite 5LP deluxe edition release.
The 5LP deluxe box features the full studio album and a previously unreleased full-length live concert from the band’s Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio tour stop in 1985. The Live In 85 Tour ran a total of 248 gigs in 117 cities and was seen by over two and a half million people.
Housed in a slip-case featuring art inspired by Mark’s National Style ‘O’ Resonator Guitar, seen on the cover of the studio album, the deluxe version includes a 16-page booklet featuring new liner notes, written by Paul Sexton, following new interviews with band members Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Guy Fletcher, and come with exclusive art prints.
Featuring singles ‘Money For Nothing’ and ‘Walk Of Life’, “Brothers In Arms” spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK Albums Chart and is the 8th best-selling album in UK chart history.
Two of the three CDs are dedicated to a previously unreleased live recording from the August 16th, San Antonio stop of the band’s 1985 world tour.
Fuelled by the No. 1 hit single “Money for Nothing,” which featured a ground breaking animated music video and a vocal cameo by Sting, “Brothers in Arms2 marked a major commercial breakthrough for the band. The album has to date sold over 30 million copies, and also spawned the Top 20 hit “So Far Away” and the Top 10 single “Walk of Life.”
The 3-CD set also includes a 28-page booklet featuring new liner notes written by Paul Sexton, following new interviews with band members Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Guy Fletcher.
The concert recording of ‘Walk Of Life’, from the band’s Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio tour stop in 1985. ‘Walk Of Life’ is taken from Dire Straits’ 5th studio album one of the world’s best-selling albums of all time. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, 5LP and 3CD Deluxe Editions will include the original studio album and the previously unreleased San Antonio Live in 85 concert.
This album was MASSIVE. It was number one all over the world, including in America for 9 weeks and it spent 14 (non-consecutive) weeks at the top of the UK charts. In fact, it was in the British charts for so long it was nominated for ‘Best British Album’ at the Brit Awards two years running, picking up the gong for the second time of asking in 1987. It won a Grammy for best engineered album in 1986 and then 20 years later it won another Grammy, for Chuck Ainlay’s anniversary 5.1 mix.
That same 5.1 mix is included in the newly announced SDE blu-ray and so is a Dolby Atmos Mix created by Dire Straits keyboard player Guy Fletcher. Guy has also created a special instrumental version of the album in Dolby Atmos exclusively for this product!. Of course, the standard stereo version of the album (as released on CD) is included but so to is the original vinyl stereo version, which you may recall featured edited versions of four songs. This version of the album has only ever existed on vinyl, so this is another first.
I’m thrilled to be working in partnership with UMR/Mercury and Dire Straits to bring you what is surely destined to be the ultimate version of an album
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