When their debut album was released in 1978, Dire Straits came out of nowhere. They had formed only the year before and had gigs much before they recorded ...
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Sultans Of Swing
Sultans Of Swing
At our Facebook Fan Page – Dire Straits Blog, we constantly receive a lot of messages from our fans. This days, one our fans sent us videos from ...
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67 years old co-founder and ex-member of Dire Straits John Illsley said that his perfect weekend is being in his country pub making music and recovering from cancer ...
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38 years ago Dire Straits on 23 February 1979 – they made first tour of the United States and Canada, opens at the Paradise Club in Boston. The ...
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1977 is the year when brothers Mark and David Knopfler and friends John Illsley and Pick Withers formed one of the greatest bands in the world – Dire ...
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Sultans of Swingers is a band from Wiltshire, England. This band is formed by five fans of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler music. The band members are Richard ...
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Simply put, this professionally shot video—which was posted to YouTube about 4 years ago—shows three guitar masters at work. It’s an incredible and purely instrumental performance of Dire ...
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Sorry for yet another isolated guitar track, but we couldn’t let this one go by. You’ll agree when you start listening to it. It’s Mark Knopfler’s isolated Fender ...
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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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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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