Mark wrote the lyrics and chords for 'Brothers In Arms', before improvising on his sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard '59 reissue guitar. 'I always knew that what I wanted [for the song] was a Paul. When we were in the studio, I didn’t know how I was going to start… I’d written the thing, I’d written all the words and knew what the chords were, but those first notes – they’d be improvised... I must have been trying different things and ended up with those notes to get the thing started.’ | Dire S