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Dire Straits

Mark Knopfler - 2023

The guitarist Mark Knopfler called “the greatest pedal steel player” ever

Unmatched talent.

Kelly Murphy
Nov 27, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

Mark Knopfler’s favourite guitarist of all time: “The man himself”

A hero’s hero.

Jordan Potter
Nov 15, 2025
ZZ Top - Mark Knopfler - Split

The ZZ Top song Mark Knopfler said was what music was “all about”

“…it just rocks”.

Tom Phelan
Oct 22, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

‘Love Over Gold’: the Dire Straits album Mark Knopfler thought he ruined

Too much tinkering.

Reuben Cross
Oct 1, 2025
Dire Straits - The Police - Split

Who was more successful: Dire Straits vs The Police?

Can you guess?

Tom Phelan
Sep 28, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

How BB King became a “turning point” of Mark Knopfler’s career

“Struck with the relationship between the guitar and the voice”.

Andrew Clayman
Sep 23, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

The best intro Mark Knopfler ever wrote was his simplest: “Then I can start to improvise”

Keep it simple, stupid.

Callum MacHattie
Sep 19, 2025
Mark Knopfler - 2023

The only reason Mark Knopfler survived the rigours of rock ‘n’ roll: “I’d have been dead”

“That means everything.”

Kelly Murphy
Aug 24, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

The song that pushed Mark Knopfler to the edge: “Sweat would be stinging your eyes”

A big performance.

Callum MacHattie
Jul 21, 2025
Record - Vinyl - General - Vintage - Retro - Grammophone - LP

What was the best-selling rock song of the 1980s?

An unlikely winner.

Callum MacHattie
Jul 6, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

“He was really tremendous”: Mark Knopfler on the one guitarist who truly blew him away

A legend in every sense.

Arun Starkey
May 31, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

“A brutal dictatorship”: the feud that forced Dire Straits to quit at their peak

A problem for a lot of bands.

Dale Maplethorpe
May 16, 2025

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