From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had ...

Mark Knopfler is one of the most successful British musicians in history, and one of the most admired guitarists. With his former band Dire Straits, he sold more than 100 million albums worldwide ...

The song containing those lyrics simply has to feature on the playlist with which we present 20 of the best Dire Straits songs by the group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April ...

The fairgrounds were full of family entertainment, an amusement park, and where Knopfler remembers seeing his “first hearing ...

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With Knopfler’s stockpile of songs, they enlisted Pick Withers on drums and were christened Dire Straits by a friend of Withers. A unique mixture of rock, country, soul and funk, they were ...

Since coming on the scene as the frontman of iconic U.K. band Dire Straits in 1977, Mark Knopfler has been viewed, deservedly, as a guitar icon. From their first hit, the top ten song ...

Inside the amusement park was a ride called the Tunnel of Love, a memorable one for Knopfler that later inspired the Dire Straits song of the same name. Released on the band’s 1980 album Making ...