One of the world’s best-selling albums, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a variety of deluxe edition releases. The expanded album, which arrived on May 16, 2025, is available as a 3-CD set and as a 5-LP collection. The original album has also been reissued as a single LP.

The expanded deluxe editions feature the full studio album and a previously unreleased full-length concert from the band’s Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, tour stop in 1985. (Listen to performances of several favorite tracks below.) The “Live In 85” tour ran a total of 248 gigs in 117 cities and was seen by over two and a half million people. The 3-CD edition and single LP version are available in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. The 5-LP edition is available in the U.K. here.

As Best Classic Bands wrote in its Album Rewind: “With their fifth album, Dire Straits vaulted from platinum respectability to the commercial ionosphere—album chart bragging rights in more than a dozen countries, multiple-platinum sales that would cast a long shadow over British pop culture and new notoriety as music video darlings.”

Housed in a digi-sleeve featuring art inspired by Mark Knopfler’s National Style ‘O’ Resonator Guitar, seen on the cover of the studio album, the 3-CD version includes a booklet featuring new liner notes, written by Paul Sexton, following new interviews with band members Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Guy Fletcher. The 5-LP includes the above, packaged in a slip case.

Featuring singles “Money For Nothing” and “Walk Of Life,” Brothers In Arms, originally released on May 17, 1985, spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at #1 in the U.K. Albums Chart and is the 8th best-selling album in U.K. chart history. It topped the U.S. album chart for nine weeks and reached #1 in more than a dozen countries. It has sold a reported 30 million copies worldwide.

Dire Straits Brothers in Arms 40th Anniversary Edition Track Listing
Original Album
So Far Away
Money For Nothing
Walk of Life
Your Latest Trick
Why Worry
Ride Across The River
The Man’s Too Strong
One World
Brothers in Arms

San Antonio Live In 85
Ride Across the River
Expresso Love
One World
Romeo and Juliet
Private Investigations
Sultans of Swing
Why Worry
Walk of Life
Two Young Lovers
Money For Nothing
Wild West End
Tunnel of Love
Brothers in Arms
Solid Rock
Going Home