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

Few players have done more for fingerstyle electric guitar than Mark Knopfler. The Dire Straits guitarist has inspired generations of players to ditch the guitar pick – and it was only when did ...

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Credit: Phil Dent/Redferns Mark Knopfler has been celebrated for his guitar tone since Dire Straits dropped their self-titled debut album in 1977. From the moment guitarists heard the album hit ...

Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and a few other notable musicians are featured in the photo from 1987.

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It was a rainy night in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, when Mark Knopfler found himself in a small pub watching a Dixieland jazz band playing to an audience of less than a handful of drunken patrons.