So Far Away - Dire Straits [1985]. It became the band's fourth top 20 hit, peaking at number 19 in the US.

I met my wife online in 1986. Long distance relationship for a bit. This was our song.

Brothers in Arms was my first ever album on CD. I listened to it hundreds of times, sitting in a beanbag next to the stereo in my tiny bedsit with headphones on.