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Dire Straits: On Every Street

Robert Sandall, Q, October 1991

THE REASONS FOR the six-year absence are well known: Brothers In Arms – the 15-million-selling album and 250-date world tour – banished an unassuming bloke and his mates to the outer reaches of unwanted superstardom.

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