A 1978 rock song that once failed to chart has become a lasting classic.

The iconic Richard Gere drama featured one of Dire Straits' greatest songs in a scene that's still celebrated as one of ...

To music fans of a certain age, the chirpy synthesiser riff at the start of Walk of Life by Dire Straits will evoke happy memories of the 1980s: the compact disc revolution, untrammelled consumerism ...

Some songs tell a story. Others take listeners on a journey. When Dire Straits released "Telegraph Road" in 1982, the sprawling 14-minute epic immediately stood apart from nearly everything else on ...

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While working on Dire Straits‘ fourth album, Love Over Gold, released in 1982, Mark Knopfler had written a more seductive song that didn’t quite fit the band’s mold. He realized that the song would be ...

Dire Straits will release a 3-CD expanded edition of their massively successful 1985 album Brothers in Arms on May 16. Two of the three CDs are dedicated to a previously unreleased live recording from ...