Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Knopfler standing against a wall. Several years ago, Mark Knopfler was riding his motorbike not far from his home in central ...

Just after 6pm on July 13, 1985, Dire Straits took to the stage at Wembley Stadium as part of Live Aid, playing to a global TV audience that reached a mind-frying 1.9 billion. In their slot between U2 ...

“There was no way anybody else was going to stick their hand up and say, ‘Hey, Mark, I have a great song idea!’ There was no point. He was on a racetrack.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Rob ...

For all of the great music Mark Knopfler has made over the years, this is the only one that he would be happy to revisit.

This unlikely rock band found themselves on stage at Live Aid, playing a song that had 72,000 people singing along. Read more ...

The sophomore slump caught up with Dire Straits, but they quickly atoned for that with a third-album masterpiece. This esteemed British band rose to the occasion on Making Movies, which was released ...

If you’re a fan of wonderful songwriting, there might not be anything more exciting than when a major writer tackles a sprawling topic. Many times, they’ll make connections that break down complex ...

CRTC said public blowback from ban on British pop song due to a homophobic faux-pas prompted the review. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief TORONTO — Canada’s TV regulator has ordered the country’s ...

At the Fox Theatre on Thursday night, Mark Knopfler basked in the glow of a standing ovation after playing his Dire Straits hit "Sultans of Swing," for which he'd stripped his large band back to a ...

TORONTO — Canada’s broadcast standards council Wednesday amended an earlier ruling that deemed Dire Straits’ 1985 hit “Money for Nothing” unfit for radio, saying that while the homophobic slur used in ...