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Or how one lesson with a folk singer from the northeast of England (and a bunch of lost picks) changed the history of ...
"There was something really funny about it to me because Sultans, they absolutely weren’t," said Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler.
From Sting barking on Money for Nothing to replacing the drummer halfway through, recording the band’s bestselling album was ...
The band have created countless hits, the two most notable being "Money For Nothing," and "Sultans of Swing." The latter song ...
This Dire Straits hit looked effortless but really wasn't, an illusion bassist John Illsley compared to a misunderstood ...
This approach is what makes Knopfler’s playing as good as a fingerprint. It is what gives his Money For Nothing riff its character. That track become Dire Straits’ biggest commercial single, an anthem ...
A special 40th anniversary edition of Brothers in Arms will be released tomorrow on CD, vinyl and Blu-Ray. It features a ...
Brothers in Arms,’ the album that consolidated and ended the band, turns 40 and is being reissued as a luxury item. Its ...
It was the quintessential everyman's album - despite many fans only recently realizing the meaning of the bands name - that ...
One of the first albums album recorded, mixed and mastered digitally gets the 40th anniversary treatment. Read MOJO's review ...
With forty years' perspective, the release and subsequent massive success of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms (released 5/17/85 ...