Let's not forget the full glory of the title, not least as it is the how and why they happened to be together that underlines this pi...

purchase [ Redbud Tree ] I like Mark Knopfler. I mean .. I don't know him to like him in that sense, but from back in the days o...

Dire Straits : Down to the Waterline [ purchase ] Dire Straits burst on the scene in 1979 with a combination of literary lyrics and ...

Tom Paxton : One Million Lawyers [ purchase ] Dire Straits : Millionaire Blues [ purchase ] Bare Naked Ladies : If I Had a M...

Some artists clearly love a true story, if only and at least as a template from where to launch into fanciful forays of imagination. Knopfle...

Anyone who reads my stuff would probably have bet on an In Memoriam post about the late Daevid Allen, of Soft Machine and Gong, who died ...

Dire Straits: Money for Nothing   Back in the 80s, where I live, we had no MTV - until very recently - at which time it had degenerate...

Dire Straits: The Bug [ purchase ] The last single released from the last studio album Dire Straits ever recorded. It's no Sultans o...

Dire Straits: Romeo and Juliet [ purchase ] Indigo Girls: Romeo and Juliet [ purchase ] So... I was having a discussion with a friend rece...

Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing [ purchase ] So many king and queen songs yet to come, not to mention all those folk songs about Lord This a...