40 years ago, this work was simply omnipresent and the British Dire Straits was about to take over world domination: The video for “Money for Nothing”, one of the first computer-generated clips, ran down and down, the album became the first millions of the still young CD age and the globally transmitted appearance at the London “Live AID “spectacle got the rest. The author of these lines is known to people who, on the occasion of Brothers in Arms, a-at that time still outrageously expensive-CD player from the mouth, because the digitally recorded album was considered a sound revelation.
So far, so good, but beyond freedom of intoxication and external voltage distances became criticized. Share of the press, Mark Knopfers appeared quite conservatively from Americana sounds inspired by Americana sounds, although one should not underestimate one aspect: music that obviously moved the masses was fundamentally suspect at the time. Exceptions confirmed the rule. But one thing can be said that without red: “Smoke on the water” may have been the trademark guitar reef of the seventies, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” that of the nineties-that the eighties undoubtedly belonged to “Money for Nothing”.
The 40th Anniversary Edition is digital and available as a simple LP, alternatively as a deluxe output on three CDs or five LPs. Then 15 previously unpublished live recordings, which were recorded in San Antonio in 1985, join the nine original tracks. A few weeks after “Live Aid”. So at the height of the Dire Straits-Mania.
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