When I interviewed Mark Knopfler back in 2009, ostensibly to promote his then new album, Get Lucky, he used the metaphor of getting behind the plough - that was what songwriting was to him; that's ...

Since coming on the scene as the frontman of iconic U.K. band Dire Straits in 1977, Mark Knopfler has been viewed, deservedly, as a guitar icon. From their first hit, the top ten song, “Sultans Of ...

Down a London backstreet, an anonymous rider glides unnoticed, slipping discretely past a garage door. The giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap. The rider is Mark Knofler, and ...

Mark Knopfler’s “Going Home” debuts on several U.K. singles charts, driven by hometown pride, a recent performance, and lasting fan devotion. ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JUNE 16: Mark Knopfler from Dire ...

For Mark Knopfler, this year’s 30th anniversary of Dire Straits‘ Brothers in Arms — and its Number One hit, “Money for Nothing” — is bittersweet. In retrospect, the record marked the beginning of the ...

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The new LP offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and ...

'I need to practise more,” says Mark Knopfler. The former leader of Dire Straits, a man routinely hailed as one of the world’s greatest guitarists, visibly blanches when I ask how he rates himself as ...

Six songs into his set in Sugar Land last night, Mark Knopfler stopped to tell the tale of "Matchstick Man." The song is a new one by the Dire Straits frontman and reluctant Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ...