Mark Knopfler is such a talented guitarist that you might wonder what song, if any, gives him a run for his money. Better still, which of his own songs gives Knopfler the most grief when he performs ...

The post Mark Knopfler Unites 54 of the Greatest Guitar Players for Epic Charity Song: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The Dire Straits frontman tapped Eric Clapton, Slash (Guns N’ Roses), David ...

Mark Knopfler has a new charity single on the way, featuring a whopping 60 musical legends. The track, a recording of Knopfler's 1983 song "Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)" will arrive on March 15.

While working on Dire Straits‘ fourth album, Love Over Gold, released in 1982, Mark Knopfler had written a more seductive song that didn’t quite fit the band’s mold. He realized that the song would be ...

Mark Knopfler doesn’t give many interviews and when he does he tends to skirt around the subject of his greatest commercial triumph. We're talking, of course, about Brothers In Arms - the album that ...

“There was no way anybody else was going to stick their hand up and say, ‘Hey, Mark, I have a great song idea!’ There was no point. He was on a racetrack.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Rob ...

When Mark Knopfler was 13, he had a Saturday morning job as a copyboy for the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle, England. There, he became friends with the copy editor, the late poet Basil Bunting ...

Dire Straits guitar legend Mark Knopfler recently earned millions by selling his guitar collection to Christie’s, and he also announced a new solo album, One Deep River, which is set to come out this ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The new LP offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their ...