A Mark In Time

Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: JF on May 13, 2020, 02:58:01 PM

Title: BIA 35 years today
Post by: JF on May 13, 2020, 02:58:01 PM
here is my chronicle (in french) about the album which made me a fan of DS/MK music

as on previous articles, I tried to sum up all infos I learned by listening music, interviews, reading books, magazines... and of course discussing here !


https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-a-35-ans-aujourdhui/
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: Robson on May 13, 2020, 08:31:04 PM
 :thumbsup Thank you JF:)

For me the album Brothers In Arms is always 17 May:)
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: JF on May 13, 2020, 09:59:28 PM
:thumbsup Thank you JF:)

For me the album Brothers In Arms is always 17 May:)

I thought the 13th was the "international" release date  :think

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_(album)
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: Robson on May 13, 2020, 11:41:25 PM
Yes, but more sources say May 17 :)
Example:

http://www.neck-and-neck.homepage.t-online.de/library/diary.htm

This of course is not so important :)
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: quizzaciously on May 14, 2020, 12:12:16 AM
Yes, but more sources say May 17 :)
Example:

http://www.neck-and-neck.homepage.t-online.de/library/diary.htm

This of course is not so important :)

The real truth is, the album has leaked a week before May 13th via torrent trackers and people downloaded it for free :lol
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: qjamesfloyd on May 14, 2020, 09:21:00 AM
Interesting article as always JF. It is strange that as Phillips promoted the Brothers in Arms tour, there was no live CD to follow the tour, thus pushing their point even further!! Some really good photos I have never seen from that period too :thumbsup Mark with a six pack :o
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: jbaent on May 14, 2020, 09:35:21 AM
here is my chronicle (in french) about the album which made me a fan of DS/MK music

as on previous articles, I tried to sum up all infos I learned by listening music, interviews, reading books, magazines... and of course discussing here !


https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-a-35-ans-aujourdhui/

Did you thought about publishing also in English?

Deepl is a good translation tool, you only have to check and modify a few things...
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: GIUMK on May 14, 2020, 10:13:47 AM
Hi amiters.
I state that I am curious about statistics: how many are the global sales of BIA?  Did any of you read anything about it?  Everywhere we read over 30 million copies: but how many are they really?  Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: JF on May 14, 2020, 09:27:11 PM
here is my chronicle (in french) about the album which made me a fan of DS/MK music

as on previous articles, I tried to sum up all infos I learned by listening music, interviews, reading books, magazines... and of course discussing here !


https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-a-35-ans-aujourdhui/



Did you thought about publishing also in English?

Deepl is a good translation tool, you only have to check and modify a few things...

yes I tought about it, and I know some people who could help me to translate as well
but it's already a lot of work to write, collect pics, videos, links, and so on... a lot of nights !  :P
and putting all articles in english too, would be doing them twice in term of layout, pics, videos etc...
I know that some wordpress plugins exist, I have to check
of course, I know I will have to do it someday... I just need time  :)
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: qjamesfloyd on May 18, 2020, 04:13:52 PM
Google Chrome translated it fine for me, about 95% correct, the rest was easy enough to fill in.
Title: Re: BIA 35 years today
Post by: JF on May 19, 2020, 01:15:54 PM
Google Chrome translated it fine for me, about 95% correct, the rest was easy enough to fill in.

 :thumbsup