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Hello Gary,

Hello Guy, so we don't really need to explain who Marked Upfer is doing.

I don't think so. You don't need my Bill Frindall figures on the fact that this was the most massive album of all time brothers in arms.

But I was going to say, well, it's certainly a great opportunity for you to roll out the bill.

I mean, the stats.

I haven't got them on me anyway, because we are doing this face to face

I have not brought my notes I'm just sitting here and you're actually off your

you're we I don't have that that's right you usually have notes I don't have

notes because I never refer to them and I rely on you for the facts.

I'm basically the kind of, I'm just tabloid speculation.

But it's suffice to say that the diastrates were unbelievably huge in the 80s.

Unbelievably huge but it was those huge out of the first album was really big

then second and third but then it was the kind of defining CD wasn't it that was the thing of brothers and arms ushered in the digital era

Yeah because I mean I remember having a CD player and and then brothers and arms came out and it was recorded digitally and everyone was freaking out about this and also we knew already

from Love Over Gold that you know what what dire straits made was sort of cinema for the

ears that's years and you

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