Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Knopfler standing against a wall. Several years ago, Mark Knopfler was riding his motorbike not far from his home in central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It was a very special feeling to be part of something so unique," recalls bassist John Illsley. "Live Aid was a unique privilege ...

Dire Straits may be best known for their No. 1 song “Money for Nothing” (think Sting singing “I want my MTV!”) that came from their chart-topping 1985 album “Brothers in Arms.” But as their new “Dire ...

“There was no way anybody else was going to stick their hand up and say, ‘Hey, Mark, I have a great song idea!’ There was no point. He was on a racetrack.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Rob ...

In 1982, Dire Straits released the album Love Over Gold. Love Over Gold includes the singles “Private Investigations” and “Industrial Disease.” According to the book My Life in Dire Straits, Knopfler ...

On this day (July 24) in 1977, Dire Straits recorded their first five-song demo at Pathway Studios in London, England. One of the songs on the tape was “Sultans of Swing.” After the rough version of ...

Dire Straits‘ Mark Knopfler always had a deep affinity for country music, citing legends like Willie Nelson and the pedal steel guitar work of Jerry Byrd and Paul Franklin, who worked on the band’s ...

Some songs tell a story. Others take listeners on a journey. When Dire Straits released "Telegraph Road" in 1982, the sprawling 14-minute epic immediately stood apart from nearly everything else on ...

Mark Knopfler doesn’t give many interviews and when he does he tends to skirt around the subject of his greatest commercial triumph. We're talking, of course, about Brothers In Arms - the album that ...

Dire Straits may be best known for their No. 1 song “Money for Nothing” (think Sting singing “I want my MTV!”) that came from their chart-topping 1985 album “Brothers in Arms." But as their new “Dire ...