After a lengthy hiatus, Rediscovery returns with a Japanese SHM CD edition of Dire Straits' final studio record, 1991's On Every Street. While many folks who bought it on the strength of the ...

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 ...

Exploring comments made by Dire Straits singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler about why he can't listen to his own work, plus ...

A digital masterpiece intended to be heard on compact disc; but how does Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms compare to vinyl ...

The sophomore slump caught up with Dire Straits, but they quickly atoned for that with a third-album masterpiece. This esteemed British band rose to the occasion on Making Movies, which was released ...

Singer-songwriter-guitarist-pianist David Knopfler, a founding member of Dire Straits, has achieved a beautiful intimacy with his latest solo album, “Made In Germany.” It’s a captivating, acoustic, ...

Teenage boys listened to it endlessly in their bedrooms and even got their New Romantic girlfriends into it too. Dads played it in the car on the way to work – while younger kids strummed along on ...

Dire Straits’ 1985 hit 'Walk Of Life' has joined the Spotify Billions Club. It's the band’s second track to do so after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dire Straits may be best known for their No. 1 song “Money for Nothing” (think Sting singing “I want my MTV!”) that came from their chart-topping 1985 album “Brothers in Arms." But as their new “Dire ...

The rock veteran’s collection encompasses instruments used over his five-decade career, including the 1983 Gibson Les Paul used to record ‘Money For Nothing’ and ‘Brothers In Arms’, which was also ...