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

Classic songs galore from an array of acts will resound around the Palace Theatre in Mansfield in September as eight tribute ...

Credit: Phil Dent/Redferns Mark Knopfler has been celebrated ... for Nothing,” the second single released from Brothers in Arms. Once again, Knopfler’s guitar was front and center, as he ...

Few players have done more for fingerstyle electric guitar than Mark Knopfler ... looking back on 40 years of Brothers In Arms. Knopfler shares the stories behind the songs, and revealing how ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing ... Illsley was proved right. Brothers In Arms, featuring classics like “Money For Nothing” and “Walk Of Life”, became a global success ...

With forty years’ perspective, the release and subsequent massive success of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms (released 5/17/85) can camouflage what a superb work it is. Co-produced by the band’s ...

Shaun meets Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler at his London studio, to talk about the record-breaking success of Brothers in Arms, 40 years after its release. Show more At the dawn of 1985, Dire Straits ...

In November 1984, Mark Knopfler gathered Dire Straits at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Monserrat to make their fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms. Dire Straits manager Ed Bicknell said ...

By the end of that 1985-86 tour. Mark Knopfler was as tired of Dire Straits as anyone. Five years elapsed before the follow-up to Brothers In Arms, 1991’s scruffier, even longer On Every Street, after ...

Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has been injured in a motorcycle crash ... The band is probably best known for its album Brothers in Arms, which sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

However, 40 years ago, Dire Straits was the most popular rock group in the world. Mark Knopfler during the 'Brothers In Arms' tour in London in 1985.Pete Still (Redferns) But behind the banter, on the ...