"Postcards From Paraguay" from 2004’s Shangri La has a similar effect, while Dire Strait's "Sultans of Swing" is an obvious crowd-pleaser with that inescapable hook and Knopfler's fantastic ...

Many in the audience at the Royal Albert Hall last night for Mark Knopfler surely did ... Though it regrouped in the Nineties, Dire Straits was officially dissolved 30 years ago and Knopfler has since ...

That changed when he got the offer to put together a band to play a set of Dire Straits classics for a benefit show at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. The positive reception to the performance by ...

The former Dire Straits frontman was on his way to ... The March 25 show at London’s Royal Albert Hall to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust will go on with Clapton, Nigel Kennedy, and others ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - "It's a bit weird...but life's strange," said Dire Straits founding member John Illsley at the onset of Dire Straits Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction. You can say that again.

They'd been presented with the opportunity to play at a charity show at the Albert Hall, and as Alan had recently heard singer/guitarist Terence Reis performing a couple of Dire Straits songs ...

This year, the roar about Dire Straits finally getting, in after 15 years of eligibility, among the so-called tastemaker set has been the loudest. By Ron Hart If there’s one certainty upon the ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Bon Jovi, the Cars and four first-time nominees, including Nina Simone, will be inducted Saturday night as the 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class. Dire Straits, The Moody Blues ...