We look back on the story behind their mega-successful 1985 album Brothers In Arms, featuring brand new interviews with guitarist/singer Mark Knopfler, bassist John Illsley and keyboard player Graham ...

Dire Straits were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. “Sultans of Swing” was also placed on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.

Ranking all of Dire Straits' albums that sold more than one million units 10 - Alchemy: Dire Straits Live - 1.2 million sales The first album on this list of million-selling albums is this great ...

The 5 classic Dire Straits songs that aren't on their No. 1 album 'Brothers in Arms' originally appeared on Goldmine. Along with U2 and The Police, Dire Straits were among the most successful ...

The 1985 album Brothers in Arms boosted the veteran rockers Dire Straits to new levels of popularity, with the smash single "Money for Nothing" grabbing many of the headlines. "Walk of Life," as ...

Tucked into that list were Dire Straits, whose first single, "Sultans of Swing" went to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The back-to-basics rock song that culminates in a one-minute ride out ...

The Dire Straits story is one of rags to riches on fast-forward. In 1977 Knopfler started the band with his brother David and their friends John Illsley and David “Pick” Withers.

My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Rock Bands in History John Illsley. Diversion, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63576-915-9.

Dire Straits bassist John Illsley covers a lot of ground in his just-published memoir "My Life in Dire Straits." But you won't read a thing about the group's botched 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of ...

Dire Straits called it quits as a band in 1995. But in 2019, the back-catalog of the British rock band is reeling in more money than ever — thanks to an investment scheme that may help take the ...

In 1985, Dire Straits released “Brothers in Arms,” one of the world’s best-selling albums, with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. The album garnered a Grammy in 1986 for Best Engineered ...

Stats don’t lie, but the tales they tell can be misleading. Take Dire Straits, who were by any measure one of the biggest rock bands of the 1980s.Their 1985 LP Brothers in Arms was a blockbuster ...