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Dire Straits

Formed: 1977

Died: 01 January 1995

Years Active: 70, 80, 90

Genres: Pop/Rock

Styles: Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots

Dire Straits emerged during the post-punk era of the late '70s, and while their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to punk. If anything, the band was a direct outgrowth of the roots revivalism of pub rock, but where pub rock celebrated good times, Dire Straits were melancholy. Led by guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, the group built their sound upon the laid-back blues-rock of J.J. Cale, but they also had jazz and country inflections, occasionally dipping into the epic song structures of progressive rock. The band's musi...

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British, British, British, not American. (despite Knopflers phony American accent, considered de rigiure by rock singers of the ti...
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