Chris White stood in for Guy on keyboards. On 20 November DS are featured on French TV’s Johnny Metro Blues filmed in a very cold metro tunnel so Jack wears his lovely new leather trench coat which he bought in San Francisco that summer and a pair of sea foam green suede boots he purchased in Paris. In the same month, two singles are issued: Brothers In Arms/Going Home and Brothers InĪrms/Going Home/Why Worry. Mark appears on the David Letterman Show in the USA, the band playing Expresso Love, and in October the band is joined on stage by Billy Joel at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In September, Money For Nothing reaches #1 on the US Hot 100 chart and provides Dire Straits with their first #1 single in the US. The Money For Nothing video is issued on the 1st of August together with the Brothers in Arms (short version)/ Going Home/Brothers In Arms (long version)/ Why Worry single. Paul Brady, Francis Rossi, Hank Marvin, Nils Lofgren, Sting and T-Bone Burnett are among the guests joining Dire Straits on their Wembley Arena gigs.
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During the afternoon of the 13th of July, the band walk across the car park from Wembley Arena to play at Live Aid before a TV audience of 3 billion and then stroll back for that night’s gig at the Arena. Channel 4 broadcast the 10th of July gig. Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, attend one of seven shows at Wembley Arena in July. In June, Money For Nothing/Love Over Gold(live) are released as a single and Dire Straits receive a Nordoff-Robbins Silver Clef award for ‘Outstanding Services to British Music’. It remains at #1 in the US for nine weeks and hits #1 in a further 22 countries. The album enters the UK album chart at #1 and stays there for three weeks. Music videos are released for So Far Away, Money For Nothing, and the title track, Brothers In Arms. May ’85 sees the worldwide release of the Brothers in Arms album which becomes one of the very first major albums to be issued in the new CD format. Saxophonist Mel Collins leaves the tour after just three weeks due to ill health. On the 25th of April, the Live in ’85 tour starts and will cover 23 countries and a total of 248 shows in 117 cities, seen by over two and a half million people with 11 trucks carrying 52 tonnes of equipment. The album is completed at the Power Station studios in New York and the So Far Away/Walk of Life single is released.
On holiday with his family, Sting calls into Montserrat’s Air Studios during the recording of the Brothers In Arms album and is roped into singing an intro to Money for Nothing.
Guy Fletcher is drafted-in for additional keyboards. The recording of Brothers in Arms continues into 1985 but in April, Hal Lindes leaves the band and is replaced with Jack Sonni.
On arrival on Montserrat the band find that some of their gear had fallen from the quay into the sea. From late ’84, recording begins for the Brothers in Arms album using the band’s own digital 24-track machine at Air Studios in Montserrat, West Indies. In November, Cliff Richard’s The Rock Connection album is released featuring Mark on the tracks She Means Nothing to Me and I’ll Mend Your Broken Heart. Mark’s second soundtrack, Cal, was released in September supported by the issue of The Long Road/Irish Boy single. July sees the release of the Comfort & Joy/A Fistful of Ice Cream EP. In June, Mark produces Knife for Aztec Camera. Local Hero was nominated for ‘Best Score’ BAFTA and Mark wins an Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Film Score/Theme Song’ for Going Home. In April, Mark was brother David’s guest performing Madonna’s Daughter at the Ariston Theatre, San Remo. Mark played on Blanket Roll Blues, a track on Scott Walker’s Climate of Hunter album. The double live Alchemy album came out the following month peaking at #3 in the UK album charts. In February, 1984, the Love Over Gold (live)/ Solid Rock single was released.
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