Dire Straits
British rock band built around Mark Knopfler's fingerpicking guitar style and literary songwriting. Brothers in Arms became one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, and Knopfler's clean Stratocaster tone became one of the most recognizable sounds in rock.
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