Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler

Roger Marti – Guy with “Dire Straits” tattoo

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Roger Marti is big fan of Dire Straits. His passion goes so far that he decide to make tattoo with two guitars and name of Mark Knopfler on ...
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Mark Knopfler comes home (Images)

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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

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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

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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

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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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Top 10 best Dire Straits songs

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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

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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

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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

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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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Dire Straits Deliver A ‘Communiqué’

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All of the early groundwork that Dire Straits had put into cultivating their audience with tireless live work and a strong first album brought them a new reward ...
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