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Dire Straits

Dire Straits - 1980s

“We are the Sultans of Swing”: the song that turned Dire Straits from a joke into a global force

Rags to riches.

Callum MacHattie
Mar 20, 2026
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

“I don’t like my albums”: The only Dire Straits record Mark Knopfler can stand listening to

The one actually worth the replay factor.

Tim Coffman
Mar 17, 2026
Mark Knopfler - 2023

Mark Knopfler’s two favourite Beatles songs

The former Dire Straits musician singles out an underrated Beatles track.

Joe Taysom
Mar 13, 2026
The Notting Hillbillies - 1986

The Notting Hillbillies: The roots group that re-connected Mark Knopfler with his own roots

An unplanned side project with old pals.

Andrew Clayman
Mar 12, 2026
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

“No question”: The guitarist Mark Knopfler called the greatest

“No question.”

Dale Maplethorpe
Mar 1, 2026
Dire Straits - 1980s

The Dire Straits album that always disappointed Mark Knopfler: “I still don’t think it was a very good record”

It felt rushed and disconnected.

Dale Maplethorpe
Feb 22, 2026
Eric Clapton - Guitarist - 1996 -

The one band Eric Clapton thinks “just gets better and better”

The antithesis of the punk wave.

Jordan Potter
Feb 21, 2026
Five 1980s rock songs that are insanely creepy

Five insanely creepy rock songs from the 1980s

Hysterical.

Rachael Pimblett
Feb 19, 2026
Grammy Awards - General - Grammys - Recording Academy - Music

What was the first song to sell one million copies?

The tears of a clown.

Guy Howie
Jan 9, 2026
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

The album Mark Knopfler said got famous by accident: “Sheer fluke”

Took him by surprise.

Reuben Cross
Dec 29, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

The bizarre true story that inspired Dire Straits’ ‘Money for Nothing’ 

“That ain’t working.”

Elle Palmer
Dec 5, 2025
Mark Knopfler - 2023

The song Mark Knopfler called a “two minute take on a two ton book”

Inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel.

Andrew Clayman
Nov 28, 2025

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