This list of Top 10 Dire Straits Songs celebrate their best. 10 'Industrial Disease' From: ... an eight-minute epic that ends with Knopfler's all-time greatest guitar solo.

This was the first greatest hits album from Dire Straits, released in October 1988. The album covered their first five studio albums and presented an extensive selection of their biggest hit songs.

Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler moves up on the Official Album Downloads chart, stepping to No. 43 and inching closer to the top 40. Meanwhile, it remains at No ...

Mark Knopfler’s now-famous guitar sound on one of Dire Straits’ biggest hits was all down to dumb luck. Christopher Scapelliti. Fri, May 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM UTC. 3 min read.

The sophomore slump caught up with Dire Straits, but they quickly atoned for that with a third-album masterpiece. This esteemed British band rose to the occasion on Making Movies, which was ...