Sometimes, getting a classic rock band together with one's siblings is a recipe for commercial and cultural success.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. “What I really want to do, more than anything else, is just to thank each and every one for this sterling response,” said Knopfler. “I really had no ...

The band adopted the name Dire Straits because at the outset, they were truly in dire straits — and the name stuck. Formed in London in 1977 by members Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler ...

They've recorded a new version of Knopfler's 1983 solo soundtrack instrumental Going Home: Theme From Local Hero and Peter Blake has designed a special Sgt Pepper-style cover for the charity single.

The band on One Deep River features Mark Knopfler on guitars, Jim Cox and Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Glenn Worf on bass, Ian Thomas on drums, Danny Cummings on percussion, Richard Bennett on ...

Knopfler still works closely with band member Guy Fletcher ... The track was released under the banner Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes. Knopfler is releasing his new solo album, One Deep River ...