band rose into the league of mega stars with the album brothers in arms the digitally produced album helped to make the compact disc popular dire straits was the first band to sell more c d's of the album than vinyl over a million and all until they split up in one thousand nine hundred five they played all the world's large stadiums. next year mark knopfler will go on tour again of course with his very own special guitar sound. guitar teacher would say. you know i play guitar like a promise you know but it's too late for me to. to correct. those