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List of Dire Straits band members

Index List of Dire Straits band members

Dire Straits were an English rock band from London. [1]

65 relations: Alan Clark (keyboardist), Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, AllMusic, AXS (company), Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, Billboard (magazine), Brothers in Arms (album), Brothers in Arms Tour, Cashbox (magazine), Chris White (saxophonist), Chris Whitten, Classic Rock (magazine), Communiqué (Dire Straits album), Danny Cummings, David Knopfler, Dire Straits, Dire Straits (album), Dire Straits discography, Drum kit, Eagle Vision (company), Encores (EP), Eric Clapton, ExtendedancEPlay, Flute, Greg Phillinganes, Guy Fletcher, Hal Lindes, Jack Sonni, John Illsley, Keyboard instrument, Knebworth House, Lead guitar, Lead vocalist, Live at the BBC (Dire Straits album), London, Loudwire, Love over Gold, Love over Gold Tour, Mac and Katie Kissoon, Making Movies, Mark Knopfler, Mel Collins, Nathan East, On Every Street, On Every Street Tour, On the Night, Paul Franklin (musician), Pedal steel guitar, Percussion instrument, ..., Phil Palmer, Piano, Pick Withers, Rhythm guitar, Rock music, Rockpile, Rolling Stone, Saxophone, Sound on Sound, Steve Ferrone, Synthesizer, Terry Williams (drummer), Tessa Niles, Tommy Mandel, Universal Music Group. Expand index (15 more) »

Alan Clark (keyboardist)

Alan Clark (born 5 March 1952 in Great Lumley, County Durham) is an English musician who was the first and main keyboardist for the rock band Dire Straits.

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Alchemy: Dire Straits Live

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is a double album and the first live album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 16 March 1984 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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AXS (company)

AXS is a digital marketing platform for purchasing tickets for sports and entertainment events in the US, and overseas.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Brothers in Arms (album)

Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Brothers in Arms Tour

The Brothers in Arms Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Dire Straits.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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Chris White (saxophonist)

Chris White (born 13 July 1955 in Bristol) is an English jazz/rock saxophonist who toured with Dire Straits from 1985–1995, and who has played with many bands and artists, including Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, Chris De Burgh and Mick Jagger.

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Chris Whitten

Chris Whitten (born 26 March 1959) is a British session drummer who provided drums for the hit singles "What I Am" by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, "World Shut your Mouth" by Julian Cope and "The Whole of the Moon" by The Waterboys.

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Classic Rock (magazine)

Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to rock music, published by Future PLC, who are also responsible for its "sister" publications Metal Hammer and Prog magazine.

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Communiqué (Dire Straits album)

Communiqué is the second studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 15 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Danny Cummings

Danny Cummings is an English drummer and percussionist from Sheffield, England.

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David Knopfler

David Knopfler (born 27 December 1952) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, record producer, poet, and book writer.

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Dire Straits

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion).

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Dire Straits (album)

Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Dire Straits discography

This page is a detailed discography of the rock band Dire Straits.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Eagle Vision (company)

Eagle Vision is a Canadian independent film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Encores (EP)

Encores is a live EP by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 10 May 1993, shortly after the release of their live album, On the Night.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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ExtendedancEPlay

ExtendedancEPlay is a studio 12" EP by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 10 January 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Greg Phillinganes

Gregory Arthur "Greg" Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California, U.S. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed keyboard tracks to numerous albums representing a broad array of artists and genres.

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Guy Fletcher

Guy Edward Fletcher (born 24 May 1960 in Maidstone, Kent) is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known for his position as the keyboard player in the rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution, and his subsequent work with Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler.

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Hal Lindes

Hal Andrew Lindes (born June 30, 1953 in Monterey, California) is an American-English guitarist and film score composer.

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Jack Sonni

Jack Sonni (born December 9, 1954 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States) is a writer, musician and former marketing executive best known as "the other guitarist" in Dire Straits during the band's Brothers in Arms era.

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John Illsley

John Edward Illsley (born 24 June 1949) is an English musician, best known as bass guitarist of the rock band Dire Straits.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Knebworth House

Knebworth House is a country house in the civil parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Live at the BBC (Dire Straits album)

Live at the BBC is a live album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 26 June 1995 on Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Loudwire

Loudwire is an American online magazine that covers hard rock and heavy metal music.

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Love over Gold

Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 20 September 1982 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Love over Gold Tour

The Love over Gold Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Dire Straits of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

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Mac and Katie Kissoon

Mac and Katie Kissoon are a male and female vocal duo, consisting of brother and sister Mac Kissoon (born Gerald Farthing, November 11, 1943, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies) and Katie Kissoon (born Katherine Farthing, March 11, 1951, Port of Spain).

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Making Movies

Making Movies is the third studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler, (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer.

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Mel Collins

Melvyn Desmond "Mel" Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician.

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Nathan East

Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist.

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On Every Street

On Every Street is the sixth and final studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 9 September 1991 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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On Every Street Tour

The On Every Street Tour was the final concert tour by British rock band Dire Straits, supporting their sixth and final album, On Every Street.

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On the Night

On the Night is the second live album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 10 May 1993 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Paul Franklin (musician)

Paul V. Franklin (born May 31, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist.

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Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Phil Palmer

Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952, London, England) is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pick Withers

David "Pick" Withers (born 4 April 1948 in Leicester) is an English rock and jazz drummer.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rockpile

Rockpile was a British rock and roll group of the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for its strong pub rock, rockabilly and power pop influences, and as a foundational influence on new wave.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Steve Ferrone

Stephen "Steve" Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is best known for being the drummer for the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the last 25 years, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch in 1994.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Terry Williams (drummer)

Terrence "Terry" Williams (born 11 January 1948) is a retired Welsh rock drummer,.

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Tessa Niles

Tessa Margaret Niles (born Tessa Margaret Webb; 1961 in Ilford, Essex) is an English singer, best known as a backing singer for a wide variety of contemporary artists.

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Tommy Mandel

Tommy Mandel (born June 2, 1949) is a keyboardist most notable for playing with Bryan Adams from 1981 to 1998, starting with Bryan Adams's album You Want It You Got It.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dire_Straits_band_members

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