Brothers in Arms,’ the album that consolidated and ended the band, turns 40 and is being reissued as a luxury item. Its ...

Mark Wills’ ‘Greatest Hits’ album, originally released in 2002, will be available on vinyl for the first time.

Dire Straits were one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s, making 1985’s world-beating Brothers In Arms album before guitarist and leader Mark Knopfler ended the band at the height of ...

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s ...

Often, another idea pops into my head when writing an article here and listing songs or albums. That was when I picked out ...

Songs inspired by Stokesley, Middlesbrough and the Durham coalfield are being performed in a new show celebrating the music ...

Bob Dylan invited Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler to collaborate in the early 1980s, but neither artist was prepared for the other's workflow.

The guitarist was at his peak with Dire Straits when Dylan hired him to produce 'Infidels,' the celebrated album that marked ...

Go through the best songs about sons, celebrating love, growth, and the special bond between parents and children. Enjoy now!

Breakups have some unexplainable power in the music industry. One could argue that the most popular subgenre of a love song is, in fact, a breakup song. There is just something about diving into ...

Although Mark Knopfler fashioned himself as a write along with being ... a pick and yet finds ways to make strange picking techniques work when tearing through songs like ‘Sultans of Swing’. When he ...

For a young Mark Knopfler, things were no different. Born in 1949, the Dire Straits guitarist and vocalist would have been in his formative years at the height of the 1960s when popular music was ...