Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 10.10pm on October 9, 1992, Mark Knopfler bid goodnight to 40,000 people and walked off stage in Zaragoza, Spain. It was the ...

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Classic rock history is littered with unexpected tragedies and surprising reversals of fate, but other events can be seen coming from a mile away – case in point, the official breakup of Dire Straits, ...

The '60s, '70s and '80s are full of stories about bands that limped along for years, touring hard and testing their labels' patience before finally getting their big break. Given their low-key music ...

“There was no way anybody else was going to stick their hand up and say, ‘Hey, Mark, I have a great song idea!’ There was no point. He was on a racetrack.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Rob ...

So wherefore art all the songwriters willing to take the characters of William Shakespeare and adapt them into the rock and roll idiom? Well, it’s obvious why some would be reluctant to try it. Willy ...

In the early '80s, when cable television was still a new thing, every cable provider didn't carry every cable channel. Even as MTV was changing the face of pop music in America, the channel struggled ...

Dire Straits called it quits as a band in 1995. But in 2019, the back-catalog of the British rock band is reeling in more money than ever — thanks to an investment scheme that may help take the oft-in ...

JI He was an Australian artist who died about 30 years ago, he dabbled in heroin a little too much. He managed the dance between abstraction and illustration not easy- Francis Bacon apparently said ...