Here’s wishing a very Happy Birthday to founding Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, who turned 75 today (August 12). Knopfler was the lead singer, lead guitarist, songwriter, and driving creative ...

Mark Knopfler recalled the experience of watching an “average” band play a low-key show in an empty London pub, and how their name, the Sultans of Swing, helped inspire the Dire Straits hit song about ...

It really was a dark and stormy night in 1977 when guitarist Mark Knopfler popped into a tumbledown bar in London and happened upon some song inspiration. Inside, as Knopfler would later recall, was a ...