Dire Straits will release a 3-CD expanded edition of their massively successful 1985 album Brothers in Arms on May 16. Two of the three CDs are dedicated to a previously unreleased live recording from ...

Mark Knopfler-the only founding member who stayed with the group all the way to the end-occupies center stage throughout. He plays lead guitar, delivers the lead vocals, and wrote all but one of the ...

Jack Sonni, an American guitarist who played on Dire Straits’ mammoth 1985 album Brothers in Arms and was onstage with the band at Live Aid that year, has died at 68. The group shared the news on ...

Some of the most enduring songs are the ones that completely buck tradition and convention, that is, they’re songs that a publisher would laugh you out of his office over if you were pitching. It’s ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler, 75, ...

Adele's '21' album continues its sales rampage, having now toppled Dire Straits' 'Brothers In Arms' in the UK's all-time best selling albums list. '21' is now the sixth best selling album of all time ...

Mark Knopfler is currently in the studio working on his next solo disc, although the album will not see the light of day until at least 2012. The former Dire Straits frontman also appears as a guest ...

According to Mark Knopfler, the "greatest pedal steel player ever" is Paul Franklin, particularly on their final album, 'On ...

Many fans know Dire Straits for their iconic songs and guitar-driven sound, but fewer are familiar with the man behind the microphone. The band’s frontman crafted unforgettable melodies and lyrics ...

‘Sultans of Swing’ was both the first single from Dire Straits’ debut album and a revealing first-person account of the average working band’s hardscrabble, often thankless existence playing British ...