This April will see the release of Mark Knopfler’s 10th solo album since he struck out on his own with Golden Heart in 1996. Dire Straits had disbanded the year before and you’d have been forgiven for ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: WENN Rights Ltd/Alamy Dire Straits mastermind Mark Knopfler raised over $11 million when ...

Does anyone on earth have quite the guitar tone that Mark Knopfler produces? The question has probably been posed before, but the rocker made it relevant once again with a stunning two-hour concert ...

A red Baldwin Burns Double Six solid electric 12-string guitar that was lent to Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler in the mid-’70s – and not returned for over five decades – is set to fetch more than $40,000 ...

Guitar hero Mark Knopfler is rock's anti-star: no cool outfits, self-conscious posing, long-winded solos or jumpin'-jack flash. At the sold-out Orpheum Theatre on Saturday night, Knopfler, 58, showed ...

In Mark Knopfler's own words, "Music's just a very humbling experience all around." But it's hard to deny the former Dire Straits frontman's status as a bona fide guitar hero: He played some of the ...

LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - British musician and former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is selling off a large part of his extensive guitar collection at a London auction with part of the proceeds ...

Mark Knopfler has announced a new recording of “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)” with his Guitar Heroes, an unprecedented supergroup of the world’s biggest rockstars and instrumental virtuosos.

Dire Straits mastermind Mark Knopfler raised over $11 million when he auctioned off 123 of his guitars and donated a quarter of the proceeds to charities. While 28 of the axes sold for over $100,000, ...