1982: Pope John Paul II addresses more than 30,000 people at Cardiff City’s Ninian Park ground. 1985: English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely after the riot at Brussels’ Heysel ...

He described the humanitarian effort as “in an operational strait-jacket”, calling it “one of the most obstructed aid operations not only in the world today, but in recent history”.

No Jacket Required earned three Grammy Awards ... Jeff Corey The historical significance of Dire Straits’ fifth LP stretches further than the music. As one of the first albums to be digitally ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler ...

Dire Straits became a byword for a certain sort of safe, homogenised music, and Knopfler was turned into a caricature of the middle-aged rocker, with jacket sleeves rolled up and wearing a headband.

in large part due to a power play that is in dire straits. They built an early 2-0 lead and gave the Blue Jackets no quarter at five-on-five, but things started to go wrong as soon as Damon ...

It's been four decades since Dire Straits, Phil Collins and Sting ruled the radio and record stores with multi-platinum albums like Brothers in Arms, No Jacket Required and The Dream of the Blue ...

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has said it’s unlikely he would ever play as part of the group again. Knopfler said he wouldn’t play with the band again as he wanted to “expand and work ...

Dire Straits were the biggest-selling British band of the 1980s ... He arrived alone, a few minutes early, having walked from his manager’s office, wearing a thick jacket and woolly beanie hat that ...

The Dire Straits frontman offloaded 120 axes and amps, auctioned Wednesday (Jan. 31) at Christie's in London. By Lars Brandle An impressive collection of Mark Knopfler’s guitars and amps went ...

This is something that’s important to remember about Dire Straits: We made albums as albums. There had to be a significant flow, similarities, and energy among all the songs. There weren’t any ...