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The History of ‘Brothers in Arms’ Song

‘Brothers in Arms’ is the single from the same name album of Dire Straits released in December 1984. This song was originally written ...
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Fan Club Movies

Sunday movie ‘Miles Ahead’ (2015) – Proposal from team of DSB

Like every Sunday, our team wants to propose some movie for all the fans of Dire Straits Blog and fans of the whole ...
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Fan Club

New guitar lesson from Pavel Fomenkov – “Love Over Gold”

Pavel Fomenkov is back with one more guitar lesson for all Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits fans. He is back with “Love Over ...
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Fan Club Guitar Stories

Knopfler Solo Technique with Josh Turner – “In The Gallery”

Today we have interesting video lesson, actually lesson for Mark Knopfler’s solo technique from one song from his first album with Dire Straits ...
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Fan Club

Short conversation with Skyway Avenue and their version of ‘What It Is’

Before 3 days ago we get an email from one band from The Netherlands, their name is Skyway Avenue. The band have five ...
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Blog

Are Dire Straits and Bruce Springsteen have similar riffs?

In the world of music there are many songs and massive lyrics. Some of them have similarities and some of them have differences. ...
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Throwback Thursdays: Story of Montserrat AIR Studios & Dire Straits

In the middle of 70s and 80s there are bands and musicians who created music songs with so much love, which today they ...
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DSB Interview with Haris Abdagich: “La Musique Speaks Tutto Linguae”

If you constantly read all the articles what we share here on DSB, you now probably would know who is Haris Abdagich, his ...
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Blog Fan Club Guitar Stories

How it sounds ‘Sultans of Swing’ in 12 different styles by famous guitarists

He has specific and different style of playing guitar, he is a guitar player with, if we can say that – ‘future’ style ...
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Fan Club Movies

Sunday movie ‘Local Hero’ (1983) – Proposal from team of DSB

This time we have comedy-drama British movie ‘Local Hero’ from 1983 written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, ...
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Quotes

Sunday routine: Interesting facts and quotes from great Elvis Presley

The king of the rock n’ roll – Elvis Presley died 40 years ago on 16 August 1977 and this week is all ...
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Throwback to one of Mark Knopfler projects

In the middle of 1986 and 1987 a wonderful story was born through a joke, one project by Mark Knopfler and his old ...
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Fan Club

Ilyes is back again with ‘Local Hero/Going Home’ Cover Video

Ilyes Berramdane is a 21-years old amateur musician from Algeria. He is a medical student but in his spare time, he loves to ...
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