Dire Straits Legacy will headline Wilkes-Barre’s Free Summer Concert this year. The 4th annual concert will take place Aug.

Given that one plays guitar and the other piano, Mark Knopfler and Bruce Hornsby might seem like the most obvious “kindred ...

Five albums by Dire Straits chart in the U.K. this week, with both On the Night and the group's self-titled debut full-length becoming bestselling downloads. Dire Straits, group portrait, Amsterdam, ...

Oscar Wilde once claimed, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” but when it comes to this classic Dire Straits hit, we (and bassist John Illsley) would argue that life and art can act ...

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has often spoken frankly about one of his biggest influences and even went on to label ...

“It’s time to take some of these treasured six-string companions out of their cases and leave them in the care of Christie’s to allow them to have new adventures with new owners,” Knopfler said in a ...

Dire Straits was a band not meant to exist. It began as a troupe of men in their late 20s led by Mark Knopfler, a Geordie who sang folk and blues when the rest of music was young and loud. It was ...