Wanting to work with record producer Glyn Johns, Eric Clapton laid down guitar-hero riffs on tracks such as "Cocaine" and "Wonderful Tonight", the latter track becoming one of the album's hit singles, along with "Lay Down Sally". "Slowhand" was one of Clapton's critically most successful studio albums, the title matching Clapton's ironic nickname.
Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" was the first album to be certified 10-times platinum in the UK, is the eighth best-selling album in UK chart history, is certified nine-times platinum in the United States, and is one of the world's best-selling albums, having sold over 30 million copies worldwide. If you watched MTV in the mid-'80s, you were all over "Money For Nothing" and "Walk Of Life", which were both in heavy rotation. "So Far Away" displays guitarist Mark Knopfler's riff-writing talents, while the title track is a songwriting tour-de-force.
