Brothers in Arms popularises the CD

13 May 1985: Number 38 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicGiven that Dire Straits had made their name by offering a smartly dressed hybrid of jazz and blues right in the middle of the new wave era, they weren't the band you'd expect to be in the vanguard of new technology a few years later. Yet their fifth album, Brothers in Arms – musically rather poppier than usual, but hardly cutting edge – was the one that introduced the public to the compact disc, and consequ...

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