The 5 classic Dire Straits songs that aren't on their No. 1 album 'Brothers in Arms' originally appeared on Goldmine. Along with U2 and The Police, Dire Straits were among the most successful ...

This month, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms album, which includes its iconic track, Money For Nothing, turned 40. To celebrate, the band has released a new special edition LP and CD of its fifth album, ...

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 ...

Dire Straits celebrate the release of iconic album 40 years ago with special new release In a decade where the music video was king, one album stood out, capturing the essence of an era.

Of all the artists to herald the digital age with its shiny new compact disc format, Dire Straits were surely the least likely. Workhorses rather than high-gloss show ponies, they emerged from ...

Let’s give thanks to Guy Fletcher and his synth mastery, then: Dire Straits’ secret weapon. We’ll never know how many of Brothers In Arms’ 30 million sales he was responsible for, but without him and ...

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in Deptford, ... They scored four UK Official Album Chart Number 1s, ... COMMUNIQUE DIRE STRAITS. Peak: 5, Weeks: 32; 2 5. O c t. 1 9 8 0.

In 1991 he gathered Dire Straits once more, for the On Every Street album. It sounded worn and tired, but still racked up 10 million sales. They embarked on another mammoth tour on the back of it ...

If Dire Straits thought the world needed a break from them after ‘Brothers In Arms,’ 1988‘s ‘Money For Nothing’ best-of proved the opposite.

With four and a half decades of hindsight, Communique (released 6/5/79) now more than ever stands as the great lost Dire Straits album.In part, that’s because, except for “Lady Writer,” the overly ...

The sophomore slump caught up with Dire Straits, but they quickly atoned for that with a third-album masterpiece. This esteemed British band rose to the occasion on Making Movies, which was ...

Dire Straits frontman said he had an ‘absolute ball’ during his time in the band . ... Knopfler is also working on his latest solo album, One Deep River, which is scheduled for release on ...