When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This week we're looking at a guitar riff that occurs a few times in Dire Straits' 1978 debut ...

SWEET Child o’ Mine by Guns n’ Roses is the best guitar riff of all time – more than 35 years after it was released. A poll of 2,000 music fans saw Prince’s Purple Rain voted in second place, with ...

The 1980s rock scene conjures up images of leopard print, teased hair, guy liner and giant drum kits. Although hair metal dominated the better part of the decade it wasn't the only sub genre to give ...

Now, Lloyd has returned to her roots to shreddify another pillar of rock guitar lore, this time taking on the snappy, sultry fingerstyle lines of Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing. It goes without saying ...

It was a rainy night in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, when Mark Knopfler found himself in a small pub watching a Dixieland jazz band playing to an audience of less than a handful of drunken patrons. The ...

SACHIN Tendulkar was clean bowled by Harsha Bhogle, when the cricket commentator got Dire Strait's axe-man Mark Knopfler on the telephone, during an interview with ...