According to Mark Knopfler, the "greatest pedal steel player ever" is Paul Franklin, particularly on their final album, 'On ...

LONDONLONDON — Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will sell off a collection of guitars he considers “old friends” at a Christie’s auction in London next year. The musician, whose distinctive ...

NEW YORK - MARCH 3: Lead singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler and guitarist David Knopfler of the English rock band Dire Straits performing at the Bottom Line in New York City on March 3, 1979. (Photo ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Mark Knopfler doesn’t give many interviews and when he does he tends to ...

Not everybody who reads a 700-page historical novel set in colonial America decides to turn it into a role-playing folk-pop ...

"The tours with Bob Dylan I hadn't expected to turn up, but they did. So that changed the recording schedule," Knopfler explains in a track-by-track video discussion of the album. "I'm glad that all ...

Keyboardist Alan Clark revealed the band's plans for its big night on his website, explaining that "there's a lot of conjecture on forums about whether the band is performing at the Hall of Fame, and ...

Down a London backstreet, an anonymous rider glides unnoticed, slipping discretely past a garage door. The giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap. The rider is Mark Knofler, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Dire Straits frontman Mark ...