Dire Straits News

It was an intriguing headline in the Nov. 8 Sunday local section: "For 1 year, don't expect new laws -- State incumbents will have races looming as they weigh votes." Next year, all state House seats are up for election and many Senate seats.

By Alex Fredman A BLUES' musican has turned down a prestigious gig in Italy with ex-Dire Straits band members to play at a charity night in aid of Whitby Lifeboat.

Strummy time: Mark Knopfler gets introspective. November 13, 2009 The former Dire Straits frontman now relishes a simpler way of touring, writes Andrew Murfett.

REMEMBRANCE Day services led by former RAF pilot the Rev John Hetherington will focus on those fallen and still fighting in current conflicts.

His multi-platinum years as an MTV mainstay are now long behind him, but Mark Knopfler still keeps up an impressive pace in his fourth decade of touring and recording.

It's like that Dire Straits song. No, not Walk of Life. I do love that video though.

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President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize award reminded me of two songs: "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits and "Imagine" by John Lennon.

"Come back Woody Guthrie, come back to us now," Steve Earle implored in his stirring 1997 ballad "Christmastime in Washington." "Tear your eyes from paradise--and rise again somehow." It's a socialist's pipedream that's gained urgency at a time when President Obama is branded as a communist and even PBS-TV filmmaker Ken Burns has come under fire ...

Well, I've been giving Dylan's Saved album a few spins. My impression so far is that it seems more rushed that Slow Train Coming.

October 14, 2009 - Comments As I found out with a GoogleA search, the topA songs about money list has been done many times before...but there's nothing saying I can't do it better! I've made a playlist of the Top 10 for your enjoyment here ...unfortunately, I had to use a coverA version of #1. Without further ado:A 10) Take the Money and Run a ' ...

Outrageous Outrage of the Day! Michelle Malkin sees through the Obama-Hitler's latest dastardly plot to bring foreigners to America, under the disguise of a sporting event &mdash and even worse, he's using poor innocent children as pawns in his scheme! More... Here's a clip from the Alan Colmes radio show, in April 2006, featuring white supremacist ...

Mark Knopfler is one of rock's greatest storytellers. From 'Romeo and Juliet' during his Dire Straits days to 2000's 'Sailing to Philadelphia,' the fingerstyle guitarist with the comforting baritone has become known for his compelling story-songs. Perhaps it's his early life as a journalist that made him so interested in the stories of others.

September 26, 2009: British rockers MUSE have charged to the top of the European album charts after their new release, THE RESISTANCE, claimed number ones in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland.

Over the past few years, an indiscriminate 1980s revival has variously brought back into fashion synth-pop, legwarmers, blue mascara, the Cure and Duran Duran.

Sonny Landreth's 30-plus year career has taken him from sleeping on pool tables at Houston's legendary Gold Star Studios to flights to London to play with Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler.

I have been a fan of Mark Knopfler's music since I purchased the first Dire Straits LP in 1978 at Smokestack Records on North Fifth Street in Grand Junction.

Legendary musician Mark Knopfler is auctioning his guitar in aid of Chichester's Pallant House Gallery.

It's been an insanely busy week of concert announcements that run the gamut from King Kahn & BBQ Show and Melt-Banana, Wolfmother and Ghostland Observatory to Stone Temple Pilots, Insane Clown Posse and Kevin Smith .

Knopfler will then return to Europe for lengthy leg that currently extends into July.