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Is Prince's Purple Rain really the second-greatest guitar riff of all time? A new survey says 'yes'

And Seven Nation Army is the only riff recorded after the '80s to make the top 20

MusicRadar

Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ Voted Best Guitar Riff Of All Time

Poll of music fans reveals iconic rock classics and modern hits in the top rankings.

Zenger

“I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together and I can’t play them all”: Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is selling off his guitar collection

Dire Straits' leader Mark Knopfler is putting 120 guitars up for auction in January

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Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is putting some of his guitars up for auction

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will sell off a collection of guitars he considers “old friends” at a Christie’s auction in London next year

The Independent UK

“I never thought that my signature would be on anything – never mind Fenders, Gibsons, and Martins, they're the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost of guitars”: Mark Knopfler is selling off 120 guitars, including his Money For Nothing Les Paul

See the Scottish guitar great talk through highlights of his immense collection of signature models, custom builds and guitars used on Dire Straits’ most iconic tracks

Guitar World

Ex-Dire Straits singer Mark Knopfler to sell guitar collection for charity

‘I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together,’ says musician ahead of London auction

The Guardian - UK

Mark Knopfler auctioning guitar he played on Dire Straits song ‘Money For Nothing’

Grammy-winning artist says he has ‘more than enough’ instruments left over after collecting hundreds during his 50-year career

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Mark Knopfler to auction 120 guitars –including his Dire Straits Brothers In Arms Les Paul and a '59 Burst

Money for something, bids + fees, with 25% going to charity

MusicRadar

“Not my finest hour… but if you can forgive my codpiece and tights in the 70s you can forgive me getting out a coffin in a cloak and comedy fangs”: Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull’s 80s era

The decade started with a “big split” and continued through unhappy electronic experiments and bad videos to that controversial Grammy win - but leader says it’s all part of their “universe of silliness”

Louder

“A lot of people told me when I was coming up, ‘Jared, you’re not going to be a professional guitar player unless you use a guitar pick:” Watch Jared James Nichols deliver a masterclass in fingerstyle blues

Nichols once told us his guitar style was like wrestling a bear but there’s more than raw-meat physicality to his playing as he demonstrates how his creativity is set free by fingerstyle

MusicRadar

Money for something: Dire Straits in demand as ‘huge amounts offered’ for reunion

Rock band are regular source of reform hopes – but it seems like it might never happen

The Independent UK

"I said, 'I wish Sting was here', and they said 'he is, he’s here on holiday!'": Mark Knopfler, George Martin and more on 10 years, 70 albums, massive hit singles, a hurricane and a volcano – the incredible story of AIR Studios Montserrat

The Police, Dire Straits, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Duran Duran are just a few of the AAA names who enjoyed the most idyllic of recording studios, but it didn't end well for this particular AIR

MusicRadar

Brendan Croker obituary

Singer, songwriter and guitarist who shared his love of country and blues in the Notting Hillbillies

The Guardian - UK

"It’s not to do with gear, it’s all to do with the way the brain sends signals to his fingers – that’s what makes Mark so special": the story of the classic Dire Straits song that's often imitated, but rarely mastered

Producer Muff Winwood on a masterful Mark Knopfler track

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Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page are some of guitar’s greatest trailblazers – learn their styles and level up your playing with this rock guitar deep-dive

The styles of Slash, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore and a suite of other rock gods are placed under the microscope for this comprehensive lesson – tabs and audio included

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 6-12

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Aug. 6-12 include singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot and actor Anna Kendrick

MusicRadar

5 songs you need to hear by Steely Dan: "Like a lot of kids in the ’50s, we were looking for some kind of alternative culture, an escape from where we found ourselves"

Across nine studio albums, jazz-loving perfectionists Walter Becker and Donald Fagen created a stunning body of work. Here are five of their finest moments

Louder

The Darkness' Justin Hawkins says Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante is an "overrated" and "child-like" guitarist

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins critiques RHCP guitarist John Frusciante and explains why he thinks he's an overrated player

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Justin Hawkins explains why he thinks John Frusciante is overrated

In his podcast, The Darkness guitarist discussed why he gets “nothing from John Frusciante’s guitar playing” – and why he thinks no good rock 'n' roll has ever been played on a PRS

MusicRadar

25 great blues-rock guitar licks lesson

Play in the style of Clapton, SRV, Hendrix, Gilmour, the three Kings, John Mayer and more with our tab and audio lessons

Louder

The stories of 10 'regular folk' made famous by rock songs

What do Spoonman, Arnold Layne, and an unnamed security guard at Studio 54 have in common? They all inspired classic songs

Louder

10 revolutionary instrumentals that inspired the guitarists who invented rock music

Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and the rest: They all owe so much to the instrumental artists of the 50s and 60s

The Guardian - UK

Tina Turner’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

She made her name with Ike, but her stardom became all her own. As Tina: The Tina Turner Musical celebrates five years in the West End, we round up the best of a barnstorming performer

Louder

"We were living on next to nothing and weren't even able to pay the gas bill": The song that transformed Dire Straits' fortunes and set them on the path to global fame

Inspired by watching a hopeless jazz combo play in a deserted pub, Sultans Of Swing sent Dire Straits on a journey to superstardom

Newcastle Herald

Stadium starstruck by Kidman and Urban glamour couple

THE hallowed turf of McDonald Jones Stadium isn't foreign ground when it comes to star power. It's played host to football icon David Beckham, turned green and gold for the Socceroos and Matildas and been the playground of rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns. But Newcastle isn't LA, or even Sydney,…

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