The band Mark Knopfler hated working with: “It was a strange experience”
Mark Knopfler has a healthy reputation for being a master guitar player and peaceful rock star. But working with this one band made him unusually cynical.
Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler reveals he got his playing style after pretending his tennis racket was a musical instrument as a child
Legendary Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler has revealed he got his playing style from strumming a tennis racket as a ...
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Slash's Guitar Heroes
From AC/DC to Dire Straits, Slash explains how these bands changed his life and inspired him to pick-up a guitar, and why you should get to know them, too. With a few musical curveballs thrown in ...
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How an Amusement Park Ride and Rodgers and Hammerstein Inspired Dire Straits’ “Tunnel of Love” and its Links to Bruce Springsteen
Inside the amusement park was a ride called the Tunnel of Love, a memorable one for Knopfler that later inspired the Dire Straits song of the same name. Released on the band’s 1980 album Making ...
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Gary Murphy Presents: Dire States
The Ultimate Tribute to Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits (Plus Support ... Featuring Gary Murphy's virtuoso guitar playing, this local legend has been putting on guitar shows across Merseyside ...