Probably the most celebrated British guitar hero to emerge in the 1970s and ’80s, Mark Knopfler rose to fame as the first choice of Dire Straits, and his songwriting and incisive guitar work played a decisive role to make them a global success story. At the same time when punk …

It’s never an easy task to end up being the sibling of the star if you are mixed up in same occupation — ask Joey Travolta or Frank Stallone, and look for out what happened to John Murray, among Bill’s brothers. Likewise, David Knopfler, more youthful sibling of Dire Straits …

b. 15 August 1953, Bradford, Yorkshire, Britain. Croker examined sculpture at artwork school before learning to be a United kingdom Rail safeguard, a refuse collector, and a theater set designer. It had been while slaving away on the last work that he fulfilled fellow guitarist Steve Phillips, with whom he …

b. Nicholas Stephen Phillips, 18 Feb 1948, London, Britain. The kid of sculptor Harry Phillips, Steve initial started playing electric guitar in 1961, at that time emulating rockabilly performers from sunlight Information label. From age eight he previously been enthralled by Elvis Presley, when others of his age group were …

Following the mega-platinum success of Dire Straits’ 1984 Brothers in Hands LP, the group’s frontman, guitarist extraordinaire Mark Knopfler, opted to temporarily change gears by forming the Notting Hillbillies, a one-off country side task. One of the band’s 1st recruits was Steve Phillips, a fellow guitarist whom Knopfler experienced 1st …

Irish-born singer and songwriter Bap Kennedy provides won a worldwide audience for his music, which fuses components of folk and rock using a decidedly Celtic world view. Blessed in Belfast, North Ireland on June 17, 1962, Martin “Bap” Kennedy got his begin in music when he was 16, playing within …

Eppu Normaali (Finnish translation of “Abby Regular,” from Mel Brooks’ Teen Frankenstein) is among the most popular rings — possibly the most popular — in the annals of Finnish rock and roll music. They possess recorded 13 studio room albums since their inception in 1976 — nine of the have …

b. Clarence Leonidas Fender, 10 August 1909, Anaheim, California, USA, d. 21 March 1991, Fullerton, California, USA. Along with Les Paul and Adolph Rickenbacker, Leo Fender was among the essential names in the introduction of the guitar in the center of the twentieth hundred years. He first found the attention …

Pal Man is among the most famous blues guitarists of his generation (and arguably one of the most famous), possessing a sound and design that embodied the customs of traditional Chicago blues even though also embracing the fireplace and display of rock and roll & roll. Man spent a lot …

The singular odyssey of David Crosby remains one of the most remarkable tales in the history of music history. Like a founding person in the pioneering American organizations the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, he helped create and popularize the extremely influential folk-rock audio, forging the richly harmonic, radiantly …