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The History of Rock in 15 minutes

Insane mashup video features 384 rock stars in 15 minutes Ithaca Audio, a company based in Brighton, England, who specialise in audio visual remixing, have created a 15-minute ...
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Mark Knopfler comes home (Images)

Dire Straits lynchpin performs a career-spanning set a short swim from his old stomping ground “I’ve been thinking about this place all day,” mused Mark Knopfler incongruously. The ...
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The guitars that built rock: The Gibson Les Paul

Celebrating the Gibson Les Paul, the classic rock guitar beloved by Jimmy Page and Slash, and an instrument that’s had to be rescued from obscurity twice These days, ...
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John Illsley on his 15-year cancer battle

John Illsley composed songs for his album in hospital while undergoing treatment for leukaemia. The Dire Straits bassist released his solo album Testing The Water – on June ...
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Dire Straits: How we made Brothers In Arms

We look back on the album that turned Dire Straits into the biggest British rock band of the 80’s. In November 1984, Mark Knopfler gathered Dire Straits at ...
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Passion for Dire Straits vinyls

These days one of our big fans sent us images that show how much he is big fan of Dire Straits and how much he have a passion ...
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Top 10 best Dire Straits songs

From Dire Straits’ big hits to deep cuts, these are the 10 greatest tracks from the biggest British band of the 80’s. For too long, Dire Straits have ...
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John Illsley: I know how this music should feel

John Illsley with his band was made a concerts around the UK, including former Dire Straits colleague and guitarist Phil Palmer. Bassist-songwriter-artist Illsley and the band was been ...
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When “Sultans Of Swing” wasn’t a hit

It’s so much a part of the fabric of rock history now that it’s strange to think that “Sultans Of Swing” missed the charts altogether when it was ...
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Dire Straits get money for everything

If Dire Straits thought the world needed a little break from them after the globe-straddling success of Brothers In Arms, then in 1988 proved that the opposite was ...
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