Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 10.10pm on October 9, 1992, Mark Knopfler bid goodnight to 40,000 people and walked off stage in Zaragoza, Spain. It was the ...

For Dire Straits, one of the highest points in their career came from watching one of the lowest of another band. "Sultans of Swing," the group's debut single and subsequent signature song, was born ...

Switching out instruments helped create a classic.

Dire Straits‘ Mark Knopfler always had a deep affinity for country music, citing legends like Willie Nelson and the pedal steel guitar work of Jerry Byrd and Paul Franklin, who worked on the band’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. “Sultans of Swing” gives Dire Straits its first streaming hit in ...

American rock legend Jack Sonni, known as “the other guitarist” from British band Dire Straits, has died aged 68. His cause ...

Driven by the popularity of their lead single “So Far Away,” followed by the second single “Money for Nothing,” the album’s biggest commercial hit and the title track “Brothers in Arms,” Dire Straits’ ...

The cult British band Dire Straits Legacy says goodbye to the Bulgarian audience with two large-scale concerts in Burgas and Veliko Tarnovo - on September 30th and October 1st. There are still last ...

Biting the hand that feeds you usually doesn’t end up great. In the case of Dire Straits, they released a song that took aim at MTV. And it was at a time when the network could make or break you. That ...

From 'Sultans of Swing' to 'Money for Nothing,' Dire Straits defined 80s rock with guitar wizardry and vivid tales of everyday life. Discover why young fans across the US and Canada are streaming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Best of 2025: To mark the 40th anniversary of their hit album Brothers In Arms, we republished this 2015 account of Dire Straits' ...