Mark Knopfler Archives

Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes – a super-group containing everyone from Nile Rodgers and Sting to Joan Jett and Ringo Starr – and their cover of Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) is right now challenging Beyoncé for the UK’s Number 1 single.

Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick will be heard playing on the upcoming Mark Knopfler album ‘One Deep River’.

Mark Knopfler has returned with new music for 2024 with the song ‘Ahead of the Game’ off the upcoming album ‘One Deep River’.

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Wicked Broadway star Michael Wartella will star as Dion in the upcoming production The Wanderer.

One year after his all-star Dion ‘Blues With Friends’ album Dion is back with more friends, more songs and another all-star album ‘Stomping Ground’.

Mark Knopfler’s first five solo albums have been compiled into a next vinyl box set (with a CD edition coming as well).

One of the lesser known fun-facts about Leo Sayer is that he once recorded a song titled ‘Passion’ and the backing singers were Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison and Frank Zappa.

Major new titles coming this week from: Mariah Carey, Little Mix, Roy Orbison & R.P.O., Michael Buble, Fleetwood Mac (GH), P.O.D., The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Boyzone, Mumford & Sons, Chris Cornell, Broods, Mark Knopfler, The Smashing Pumpkins, Andre Rieu, Sarah Brightman, Resin Dogs and ‘The Greatest Showman’ re-imagined compilation.

Dire Straits have pulled out of performing at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction this weekend – because leader Mark Knopfler won’t be there.

It was ALMOST a year with no controversy at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Joseph Knopfler, the son of Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler, has launched his own alcohol beverage, Pedrino.

Mark Knopfler, Modest Mouse, Rebecca Ferguson, Damien Leith, Sleeping with Sirens, Marina & the Diamonds, Troy Cassar-Daley, Lee Kernaghan and Xavier Rudd lead the week’s new music releases.

Mark Knopfler recently announced that he will release his eighth solo album ‘Tracker’ on March 16th.

Mark Knopfler has added to his previously announced European dates with 36 North American dates during September and October.

Hailing from Niger, Bombino is coming to Australia for some festivals and a one off Melbourne show.

Mark Knopfler’s latest album, Privateering, is being released in the U.S. on September 10, one year and one week after it was originally issued in the U.K. and Australia, and he is planning just four shows to promote it.

Gerry Anderson, the creator of the 60’s British science fiction puppet TV series ‘Thunderbirds’, has died at the age of 83.

It was a long-rumoured tour that finally came to fruition starting back on October 5.

Mark Knopfler, whose new album Privateering was recently released in the U.K., is involved in the saving of African rhinoceros whose horns have become a highly prized item on the black market.

Bob Dylan is hitting the road with Mark Knopfler this year but so far the dates only include the upper Midwest and east coast of America.

The 57th Ivor Novello Awards have been announced. Ed Sheeran got one, so did PJ Harvey and Adele got the big one for Songwriter of the Year.

Adele, Ke$ha, Elvis Costello, QOTSA, Sting, and scores more appear on Amnesty International’s four-disc, seventy-five-song Bob Dylan cover collection.