Having sold more than 30 million copies, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms album represents the band’s commercial high watermark. The record yielded a remarkable five singles, including Money For Nothing, Walk of Life and the title track, but there’s one of its ten tracks in particular that frontman and songwriter Mark Knopfler has reservations about.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Knopfler recently expressed his disappointment that Why Worry?, the tender lullaby that closes side 1 of Brothers In Arms, “didn’t come out the way I wanted”. In fact, so dismissive were the band of the song that, when they were recording it, they referred to it as ‘Why Bother?’
