It was 40 years ago today...

[dustyvalentino]

Happy 40th birthday to Brothers in Arms.

I guess your life begins now.

[Robson]

I always thought it was May 17th. Never mind. My first CD in my life. I couldn't listen to it for a long time but my mother knew about it and helped me buy a CD player. I'll never forget that.

[dustyvalentino]

I always thought it was May 17th. Never mind. My first CD in my life. I couldn't listen to it for a long time but my mother knew about it and helped me buy a CD player. I'll never forget that.

It says online 13th May - to be fair in those days I think albums got released on different dates in different countries.

I didn't get a CD player until 1991... but OES and BiA were two of the first CDs I bought.

[dustyvalentino]

According to this, it entered the Billboard chart in the US on June 8th 1985... at number 54.

https://elpee.jp/album/Brothers%20In%20Arms/Dire%20Straits/

[dustyvalentino]

The Wikipedia reference to 17th May is taken from this:

https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1985/Music-Week-1985-05-11.pdf

The final page is a cool looking ad for BiA which confirms the UK release date of 17th May.

[dustyvalentino]

Nice interview from 1985 here, page 40:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Musician/1980/1985/Musician-1985-09.pdf

[Robson]

Wow! Long text... Thank you Dusty:)

I will never get bored of this album.

[Billy’s Tune]

Fantastic article, one of the best I’ve read for years! And so nice to see the whole magazine too, a true piece of history. Thank you!!

And Mark wrote a little song called Secondary Waltz…

[vgonis]

40 years anniversary. A nice reason to celebrate.  And it is not even their best album.