Guitarist Mark Knopfler has just released his latest solo album – Get Lucky – and to celebrate he has donated a guitar to benefit Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery in the UK. The former Dire Straits ...

The UK charity Stagehand has launched the #ILoveLive prize draw to support stage crew and technicians who have lost work as the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered the live music industry. Hosted on ...

Staff ReportDubai A guitar designed by former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is being auctioned off in the UAE to raise money for tsunami victims.The specially commissioned Stratocaster will be ...

It was 30 years ago today that "Money For Nothing" was the No. 1 song in the country and Dire Straits was the biggest band in the world. Mark Knopfler did not perform the tune Friday night during his ...

He did the walk of life - a career survey and a hobbled jaunt, but not the song. Offering a broad, pleasing retrospection of his lengthy, three-pronged career, the baritone-voiced, note-perfect ...

Mark Knopfler, the former frontman of British rock group Dire Straits, announced Tuesday he will sell more than 120 guitars and amps spanning his five-decade career at an auction next year. The sale, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Across the 90-odd years of its existence, the electric guitar has been the defining instrument of popular music ...

Get some of the Sultan's secrets under your fingers with this four-lick lesson on the stellar guitar style of Mark Knopfler Not many guitarists are instantly recognisable from just a few notes; we ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions The electric guitar swept Mark Knopfler's generation off its feet. He ...