Dire Straits News

I was reminded of the Dire Straits' song: "Money for Nothing" when I read about employees at British Airways working for free.

Wanderlust...I have had it in my blood since I first saw "Smokey and the Bandit" in the theater back in the mid-70's. Just the idea of jumping in the car and going to nowhere in particular makes my soul stir.

Brad Paisley AMERICAN SATURDAY NIGHT Like Bruce Springsteen, the star with the everyman touch who's been called a country singer from New Jersey, country star Brad Paisley expresses common experiences in exceptional ways.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Lena Horne is 92. Actor Tony Musante is 73. Actress Nancy Dussault is 73.

Actor Al Molinaro is 90. Comedian Jack Carter is 86. Actress Michele Lee is 67. Guitarist Jeff Beck is 65.

"Money For Nothing" is not only the title of a song by Dire Straits in the '80s, but also the feeling many investors get when they receive a dividend .

Dire Straits Co-founder John Illsley to play one off London Show at The 100 Club in June to coincide with his Art Exhibition John Ilsley from the legendary band Dire Straits will be playing a special one off gig at the 100 Club in London to coincide with his major Art Exhibition at the Chelsea Art Gallery.

ROCK: Dire Straits founder David Knopfler, above, is playing an intimate gig at Liverpool's Live Lounge tonight.

Producer and keyboard player Barry Beckett, who recorded and accompanied singers Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Paul Simon and numerous country music stars, has died, his family said.

Barry Beckett, a keyboardist and producer who worked with artists ranging from Dire Straits to Kenny Chesney , died overnight Wednesday at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn., following a lengthy illness.

Rocks Off loves to put together musical slideshows, and if the response to a few of our recent ones is any indication , you like them too.

TEHRAN: "At the beginning of [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's] first term [in 2005] there were still a few notable musicians who thought they should stay and try to work inside Iran and try to make things better little by little, like they had done for the past 26 years," recalls Arash Sobhani.

Dire Straits is an all time favorite band of mine. This British rock group formed in the 1970's and went on for many decades.

Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has announced that his upcoming album will be called 'Get Lucky'. The effort is set to be released in mid-September. The singer/guitarist will hit the road to support the album in the spring and summer of 2010.

A lot of people are blogging about either the presentations they'll be making at Community One and JavaOne or the sessions they recommend and hope to attend.

Every time Christine McNeil hears Dire Straits' Money for Nothing, she gets the urge to clean.

Incidentally, my column's title refers to the way bacteria navigate-- first they "run"... Full Bio More from Stephanie Pulford All Stephanie Pulford A couple of entomologists at Arizona State have done what NASA famously failed to do: name a thing after Stephen Colbert.

Dire Straits or the Strait of Hormuz ? The U.A.E. has jumped from 16th place to 3rd in just 4 years, and now sits behind China and India on the list of biggest importers of weapons.

Many "West Wing" fans will recognize this song after about one note, but its proper setting is the cold and hot wars scattered throughout Central America, the Middle East, and Southern Asia in the mid-1980s. From a 1985 concert, Dire Straits performs the bitterly ironic "Brothers in Arms:" The opening and closing pencil sketch-rotoscope animation ...

A member of 1980s supergroup Notting Hillbillies is to return to Keighley as part of the Krawl music festival, which is backed by the Keighley News Top slide guitar player Steve Phillips, pictured, will be the main support for festival headliners The Animals.