When I interviewed Mark Knopfler back in 2009, ostensibly to promote his then new album, Get Lucky, he used the metaphor of getting behind the plough - that was what songwriting was to him; that's ...

Mark Knopfler was never a reluctant rock star. In the glittering, go-go 1980s, he had the time of his life leading Dire Straits to the top of the charts with monster hits such as Money for Nothing and ...

Since coming on the scene as the frontman of iconic U.K. band Dire Straits in 1977, Mark Knopfler has been viewed, deservedly, as a guitar icon. From their first hit, the top ten song, “Sultans Of ...

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For Mark Knopfler, this year’s 30th anniversary of Dire Straits‘ Brothers in Arms — and its Number One hit, “Money for Nothing” — is bittersweet. In retrospect, the record marked the beginning of the ...

'I need to practise more,” says Mark Knopfler. The former leader of Dire Straits, a man routinely hailed as one of the world’s greatest guitarists, visibly blanches when I ask how he rates himself as ...

The new LP offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 13: Singers Sting (R) and Mark Knopfler from rock band Dire Straits (L) perform at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in London, 13th July 1985. The concert raised ...