In the early '80s, things weren't going so well for British industry. On top of, and in addition to, everything else, workers' strikes, anxiety and physical and mental illnesses were fall-out symptoms ...

I cannot believe it's 26 years since I first heard this song - the emotions it evokes now are as fresh and as raw as they were when I first heard it. Mark Knopfler is a great poet as well as the most ...

“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 ...