Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. “What I really want to do, more than anything else, is just to thank each and every one for this sterling response,” said Knopfler. “I really had no ...

The band adopted the name Dire Straits because at the outset, they were truly in dire straits — and the name stuck. Formed in London in 1977 by members Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John ...

“My esteemed and much-loved fellow band member John Illsley, in his book Brothers in Arms - My Life in Dire Straits, he mentions it was Mark Knopfler’s idea to include the line ‘I Want My MTV ...

They've recorded a new version of Knopfler's 1983 solo soundtrack instrumental Going Home: Theme From Local Hero and Peter Blake has designed a special Sgt Pepper-style cover for the charity single.

Knopfler still works closely with band member Guy Fletcher ... The track was released under the banner Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes. Knopfler is releasing his new solo album, One Deep River ...

Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has been ... 30 million sales Knopfler enjoyed a string of hits with 1980s group Dire Straits including Sultans of Swing and Money for Nothing. The band is ...

Show more Mark Knopfler's amazing career, as told in BBC interviews. From his early jobs on the farm, teaching and being a journalist on the Yorkshire Post, to his musical debut with the band ...

using the same trio onstage was always going to be difficult – Knopfler in particular was obviously busy with Dire Straits at the time – but the logical move was to hire a band that could ...

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