These two musical revolutionsįrom the mid-'80s helped make Dire Straits' sixth album, Brothers in Arms, an international blockbuster. As their career progressed, Dire Straitsīecame more refined and their new maturity happened to coincide with the rise of MTV and the compact disc. Knopfler's lyrics, which approximated the winding, stream-of-conscious narratives of Bob Dylan. Had jazz and country inflections, occasionally dipping into the epic song structures of progressive rock. Led by guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, the group built their sound upon the laid-back blues-rock of J.J. If anything, the band was a direct outgrowth of the roots revivalism of pub rock, but where pub rock celebrated good times, Dire Straits See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Dire Straits emerged during the post-punk era of the late '70s, and while their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon and receive early access to Word In Your Ear Live tickets, and every future Word Podcast before the rest of the world!: Get bonus content on Patreon The early days are fascinating too, a friendship forged with Mark Knopfler over Little Feat, JJ Cale and Ry Cooder albums and the dream-like events of their record deal and rapid Life In Dire Straits … His just-published memoir recounts the rollercoaster that followed, from the London pub circuit to Compass Point, Live Aid, the gigantic world tours that took in the Eastern Bloc, the sales-boosting arrival of MTV and the CD boom, and how it felt to land back on earth when they called a halt in the mid-‘90s.
Recorded at the West Hampstead Arts Club - we're back in the outside world! - the band’s bassist remembers their label’s hopes of selling 5,000 copies of their first album in the autumn of ’77.
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