Tag: Mark Knopfler

Every day on Radio Nova, just before 11am, we play a couple of songs key to “today in music history” Have...

  Tonight (February 3rd) on the world famous Classic Album at Midnight on Radio Nova we’re playing Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms. The...

  Tonight (November 8th) on the world famous Classic Album at Midnight on Radio Nova we’re playing Dire Straits' Making Movies. The album...

  Bob Dylan has released a new video for his 1983 song License to Kill, which originally appeared on the album Infidels. The...

Dire Straits will perform at their Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction on April 14th. Keyboardist with the band Alan...

Love Over Gold is the fourth album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 20 September 1982 by Vertigo Records...

Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits. It was released on 13 May...

On this day in 1979, Bob Dylan caught Dire Straits’ final show at the Roxy, in Los Angeles. The British rock band had just enjoyed a lengthy residency at the West Hollywood, nightclub. This wasn’t the first time Dylan had heard their sound. His assistant and engineer, Arthur Rosato has previously played him the Dire Straits single, ‘Sultans of Swing’. The track taken for Straits debut album, was written and composed by frontman, Mark Knopfler.

Paul McCartney is just one of a number of rock legends who will donate their used guitar strings to charity. Keith...

Communiqué is the second album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 15 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, and...