Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler was nearly 30 years old when the band released their self-titled debut album in 1978. The single “Sultans of Swing” performed well on both sides of ...
Known now (unfortunately) for its jokey songs—that headband-couture video-hit “Money for Nothing," the silly baseball-park ditty “Walk of Life"—Dire Strait's Brothers in Arms wouldn't perhaps seem ...
To mark the 40th anniversary of their hit album Brothers In Arms, we republished this 2015 account of Dire Straits' ...
TORONTO — Canada’s broadcast standards council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1985 hit “Money for Nothing” should be censored because of a homosexual slur in its lyrics. The council said the British ...
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 ...