London singer's 4.2m-selling album enters top five bestsellers of all timeAdele's album 21 has outsold Michael Jackson's Thriller, becoming the fifth biggest-selling albu...
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Teenage angst has paid off well … with this RR playlistYouth is wasted on the young, as jealous old George Bernard Shaw once said. But that didn't seem true of the ...
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Arena, ManchesterQuite why the former Dire Straits frontman and the 20th century pop colossus who only last week added runner-up in the Nobel prize for literature to his ...
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1985 hit was pulled due to use of 'faggot'
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A bizarre radio ban on Dire Straits' Money For Nothing hit has been lifted in Canada. The 1985 track was pulled from stations earlier this year (11) following complaints ...
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The Darkness' new album is influenced by Dire Straits. The recently reformed 'Cannonball' group are putting the finishing touches to their comeback album, and have a surp...
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MTV turns 30 this year. It's come a long way from its early days of wall-to-wall music videosMTV is 30! Shall we give it the bumps or the elbow? Are we grateful that it s...
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13 May 1985: Number 38 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicGiven that Dire Straits had made their name by offering a smartly dressed hybrid of ...
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London singer's 21 tops UK charts for 10th consecutive week, eclipsing record of material girl at height of popularity in 1990It was a record held by Madonna for 21 years...
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world entertainment news - Adele has become the first act to land 10 weeks at the top of the album charts since Dire Straits in 1986.
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Adele has become the first act to land 10 weeks at the top of the U. K. album charts since Dire Straits in 1986. The singer's second album, 21, landed its bigges...
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Rescuing qualities such as 'good playing' from critical hell, Dan Bejar's band serve up a feast of unironic 80s fetishismHometown: Vancouver.The lineup: Dan Bejar (vocals...
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