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From The Archive The Dire Straits guitar hero forged a lasting partnership with a very different guitar brand during the 1980s
The two guitarists were friends for the better part of a decade, and Hinds contributed one of his last-ever recorded solos to a Marcus King track
The Fender Stratocaster would just be a glorified carpentry project without the players who danced across its neck and gave it life. Here we celebrate 25 of the best
In a journey that took him from rural Wisconsin to world stages, Nichols reflects on the fingerstyle players who inspired him
The session ace explains what’s wrong with modelers, why anyone emulating SRV is doomed to fail, and how he nearly missed out on jamming with Billy Gibbons
Brothers In Arms reinvented Knopfler and gave him more fame than he could handle. 40 years on, in a rare interview, the band look back on the biggest rock album of the '80s
Knopfler is forever linked to the Fender Strat – however, to successfully convey the emotional weight required on Brothers in Arms, his tech pushed him towards Gibsons
The guitar was originally owned by his friend, Lindisfarne's Jeff Sadler – and was played on the Dire Straits' sophomore album, Communiqué
The Dire Straits guitarist reflects on the songwriting process of some of the band’s classic tracks
From his lucky ’83 Les Paul and Fleetwood Mac-inspired soloing to “getting away with murder” at the sessions, the Dire Straits legend opens up in his most revealing interview in years
