dire straits

Behind The Song

05.28.26

How One Band’s Terrible Bar Gig Turned Into Dire Straits’ Breakthrough Hit in 1978

By Melanie Davis
Behind The Song

01.09.26

How Shakespeare, (Probably) Bob Dylan, and an Ex-Girlfriend Inspired This Underappreciated Dire Straits Track

By Melanie Davis
The List

12.15.25

4 Dire Straits Songs That Prove Mark Knopfler Is a Songwriting Genius

By Jim Beviglia
Features

10.28.25

Waylon Jennings Got His Early ’80s Country Groove on With This Dire Straits Cover

By Tina Benitez-Eves
The List

10.01.25

When Dire Straits Went Country: 3 of the Band’s Classics by Waylon Jennings, The Judds, and Lukas Nelson

By Tina Benitez-Eves
Behind The Song

08.25.25

Mark Knopfler Wrote This Seductive Song for Dire Straits Before it Became a Tina Turner Classic, Featuring Jeff Beck

By Tina Benitez-Eves
Features

08.12.25

The Stevie Nicks Ballad Co-Written with Mark Knopfler That May Have Been Inspired by Joe Walsh

By Tina Benitez-Eves
Behind The Lyrics

08.11.25

The Dire Straits Lyrics That Try To Solve the Cold Case of Lost Love

By Jim Beviglia
Behind The Song

05.14.25

The Dire Straits Hit That Bassist John Illsley Compared to a Misunderstood Picasso

By Melanie Davis
The List

04.10.25

3 of the Best Covers of Dire Straits’ 1980 Shakespearean Ballad “Romeo and Juliet”

By Tina Benitez-Eves
Behind The Song

01.27.25

How an Amusement Park Ride and Rodgers and Hammerstein Inspired Dire Straits’ “Tunnel of Love” and its Links to Bruce Springsteen

By Tina Benitez-Eves
Behind The Lyrics

09.14.24

The Dire Straits Lyric About the 9-to-5 Blues

By Jim Beviglia