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Mark Knopfler

Eric Clapton - 2017

Slow Burners: The two artists who require repeat listens, according to Eric Clapton

Truly timeless northerners.

Tom Taylor
Jul 12, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

The guitarist Mark Knopfler always wanted to be: “All I wanted”

The perfect package for guitar.

Tim Coffman
Jul 10, 2025
Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull - 1970

Ian Anderson on the guitarist too unique to copy: “Quirky but controlled”

One of a kind.

Reuben Cross
Jul 7, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Jeff Beck - Split

When Mark Knopfler drafted in Jeff Beck to play “the world’s second-ugliest guitar solo”

“I don’t think people need to hear that”.

Reuben Cross
Jun 26, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

Mark Knopfler reveals his favourite guitar solo: “I didn’t go too far”

A solo for the people.

Callum MacHattie
Jun 24, 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
John Lennon - Mark Knopfler - Split

“Good and ready”: The song Mark Knopfler wrote the night John Lennon was assassinated

Song born out of sadness.

Lauren Hunter
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
David Gilmour - 2024 - Anton_Corbijn

“I wish I could”: The one guitarist David Gilmour couldn’t copy

A hero.

Jordan Potter
May 7, 2025
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits - Guitarist - 2001

The song that makes Mark Knopfler pine for Dire Straits: “People go bananas”

A fitting closer.

Reuben Cross
May 2, 2025
Charts - Official Charts - Gold - Platinum - Music - General - Single

What was the best-selling British album of the 1980s?

Too big.

Tom Phelan
Apr 27, 2025
Mark Knopfler - 2023

“A big turning point”: The three guitarists who shaped Mark Knopfler into a genius

“There was a connection.”

Kelly Murphy
Apr 24, 2025

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