Teenage boys listened to it endlessly in their bedrooms and even got their New Romantic girlfriends into it too. Dads played it in the car on the way to work – while younger kids strummed along on ...

The sophomore slump caught up with Dire Straits, but they quickly atoned for that with a third-album masterpiece. This esteemed British band rose to the occasion on Making Movies, which was released ...

For all of the great music Mark Knopfler has made over the years, this is the only one that he would be happy to revisit.

The '60s, '70s and '80s are full of stories about bands that limped along for years, touring hard and testing their labels' patience before finally getting their big break. Given their low-key music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The band Dire Straits during the recording of "Brothers In Arms" - from left to right Guy Fletcher, Mark Knopfler, Alan Clark, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 10.10pm on October 9, 1992, Mark Knopfler bid goodnight to 40,000 people and walked off stage in Zaragoza, Spain. It was the ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler, 75, ...

Dire Straits’ album ‘Brothers in Arms’ has been named as the second best of the 1980s, according to a BBC Radio 2 listeners poll. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler was nearly 30 years old when the band released their self-titled debut album in 1978. The single “Sultans of Swing” performed well on both sides of ...

Mark Knopfler is currently in the studio working on his next solo disc, although the album will not see the light of day until at least 2012. The former Dire Straits frontman also appears as a guest ...

Dire Straits started out with brother Mark and David Knopfler, who founded the group with John Illsley and Pick Withers. Each of them had their own careers or were studying at university when the band ...