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Copsey, Rob (4 July 2016). "The UK's 60 official biggest selling albums of all time revealed". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 2 April 2017. Offiziellecharts.de – Dire Straits – Dire Straits" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 7 March 2021. In 1986 Brothers in Arms won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while the 20th Anniversary Edition won another Grammy in 2006 for Best Surround Sound Album, [48] and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. [49] In 2000, Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. [50] In 2003, the album ranked number 351 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [51] and number 352 in a 2012 revised list, and number 418 in the 2020 revision. [52] [53] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [54] The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Dire Straits; 'Dire Straits ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. American album certifications – Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms". Recording Industry Association of America.

Dire Straits (booklet). Dire Straits. Burbank, California: Warner Bros. Records. 1978. pp.11–12. 947769-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)Dorfsman and Knopfler made the decision to erase Williams' contributions. [12] Williams was replaced in the sessions by jazz session drummer Omar Hakim, who re-recorded all the album's drum parts during a two-day stay before leaving for other commitments. [10] All of the drumming on the final album was performed by Hakim, with the exception of the improvised crescendo at the beginning of “Money for Nothing”. [14] (In another interview, Dorfsman has said that Williams' fills and tom-toms were also used in the rest of “Money for Nothing”). [15] Both Hakim and Williams are credited on the album. [16] In the Netherlands, the album broke the all-time record for most weeks on chart, with 269 non-consecutive weeks (since overtaken by Adele's 21 and the Buena Vista Social Club's eponymous debut album). [62] a b "Dire Straits tour 1978". Mark Knopfler Info. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012 . Retrieved 4 December 2012.

Top 100 Albums of '86". RPM. Vol.45, no.14. 27 December 1986. p.9. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. Gold & Platinum Certifications". CAPIF (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 . Retrieved 17 August 2020. Italian album certifications – Dire Straits – Dire Straits" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana.Dire Straits' fourth studio album Love Over Gold, an album of songs filled with lengthy passages that featured Alan Clark's piano and keyboard work, was well received when it was released in September 1982, going gold in America and spending four weeks at number one in the United Kingdom. The title was inspired by graffiti seen from the window of Knopfler's old council flat in London. The phrase was taken from the sleeve of an album by Captain Beefheart. Love Over Gold was the first Dire Straits album produced solely by Mark Knopfler, and its main chart hit, " Private Investigations", gave Dire Straits their first top 5 hit single in the United Kingdom, where it reached the number 2 position, despite its almost seven-minute length, and became another of the band's most popular live songs. [35] https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/entertainment/music/516848/dire-straits-reunion-not-horizon-says-band-founder-john-illsley-ahead-tayside-gigs/ Mark Knopfler announced the dissolution of Dire Straits in September 1988. He told Rob Tannenbaum in Rolling Stone: "A lot of press reports were saying we were the biggest band in the world. There's not an accent then on the music, there's an accent on popularity. I needed a rest." [84] The tremendous success of the Brothers in Arms album and the tour that went with it left the band members under a significant amount of stress, and Knopfler announced that he wanted to work on more personal projects. A best of / greatest hits compilation, Money for Nothing, was released in October 1988 and reached number one in the UK. [35] The group's first hit single " Sultans of Swing" was re-released as a single in the UK to promote the album. [85] Also in 1988, John Illsley released his second solo album, Glass, which featured Mark Knopfler, Alan Clark, Guy Fletcher and Chris White. [86] During this period, Alan Clark joined Eric Clapton's band for three years, during which time Knopfler also briefly joined Eric's band.

In January 1983, a four-song EP titled ExtendedancEPlay was released while Love Over Gold was still in the album charts. It featured the hit single "Twisting By the Pool", which reached the Top 20 in the UK and Canada. The band won Best British Group at the 1983 Brit Awards. [37] Dire Straits embarked on an eight-month-long Love over Gold Tour, which finished with two concerts at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 22 and 23 July 1983. King Crimson saxophonist Mel Collins and session keyboardist Tommy Mandel, who had played with Bryan Adams since 1981, joined the live line-up to help Clark cover his increasingly detailed keyboard parts and arrangements. The double album Alchemy Live was a recording of excerpts from the final two concerts and was reportedly released without studio overdubs. It was released in March 1984, reaching the Top 3 in the UK Albums Chart. [38] a b Gumble, Daniel (5 July 2016). "UK's 60 Biggest Selling Albums of All Time". Music Week. Intent Media . Retrieved 11 August 2016. Brothers in Arms – full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. 22 June 2018 . Retrieved 14 August 2018.Dire Straits: „The Studio Albums 1978-1991" erstmals als CD-Box und Vinyl-Reissue". uDiscover Germany. 12 October 2020 . Retrieved 11 November 2023.

a b "Summer of 1985: Eleven Top Music Moments Remembered". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 18 November 2020. Top 50 ( ARIA Chart) peaks from 26 June 1988: "australian-charts.com > Dire Straits in Australian Charts". Hung Medien . Retrieved 3 November 2016. Brothers in Arms (album) (booklet). Dire Straits. Warner Bros. Records. 1985. p.5. 947773-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)The ARIA Report: Issue 1056" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2010 . Retrieved 22 October 2016. Wilkinson, Matt (16 February 2010). "Liam Gallagher snubs Noel as Oasis win Brit Album Of 30 Years award". NME . Retrieved 26 October 2019. Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2002" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 17 February1992". Bubbling Down Under . Retrieved 18 February 2023. Bignell, Paul; Harmon, Will (14 February 2010). "Better than the Brits: The IoS offers an alternative selection". The Independent . Retrieved 13 November 2019.