Brothers in Arms--Dire Straits | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art

Send us Fan MailRaise your hand if you know the first album to sell a million CDs and outsell its vinyl twin. Okay, hands down—it was Brothers in Arms. But the cover? That dreamy blue sky with a floating steel guitar wasn’t planned at all. A jazz photographer snapped it on a whim while waiting for Mark Knopfler and a German painter obsessed with shiny objects slipped his own guitar fantasy onto the back cover, he’s still waiting on his £1 payment for the work, by the way. One guitar, two artists, and one of the biggest albums of the ’80s. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at [email protected] or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NrDU39yE9CJcHU6YJT8jj?si=Y1JAE4LWTDmKEDE9QGlB2A&pi=ly2xwE-ERRu-2