- Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a UK guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film score composer. Knopfler was originally best-known as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the band Dire Straits, which he founded in 1977. Since the final Dire Straits album in 1991, Knopfler has continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist, under his own name. - Guy Fletcher
Guy Fletcher (born May 24, 1960 in Maidstone, Kent) was the keyboardist to the popular British rock band Dire Straits. He has also been involved in most of Mark Knopfler's solo work to date. - John Illsley
John Illsley (born on 24 June, 1949, in Leicester, England) was the bass player for the British rock band Dire Straits. Introduced to lead singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler by Mark's brother, David Knopfler, Illsley was one of just two original band members remaining when it broke up in 1995. - Melina
- Pick Withers
Pick Withers (born April 4, 1948 in Leicester, England) was the original drummer for the rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as "Sultans of Swing," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Skateaway." He first played a drum in the Boys Brigade. He became a professional musician aged 17 in a band called the Primitives, followed by a band called Spring who had a record contract but little success. - Tony Levin
Tony Levin (born June 6 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an influential American bass player. He has played with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Yes, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, Dire Straits, Joan Armatrading, Alice Cooper, Seal, David Bowie, Deodato, Pandora's Box, Carly Simon, California Guitar Trio, Sarah McLachlan, Kevin Max, The Roches and Paul Simon, among many others. - Alan Clark
Alan Clark (born March 5, 1952, in Great Lumley, Durham, England) was one of the keyboardists for the British rock band Dire Straits. - Hal Lindes
Hal Lindes (born June 30 1953, Monterey, USA) is an English-American guitarist and composer. In 1980 he was a part of the British rock band Dire Straits, recording albums with the band before he gave up the guitar playing to concentrate on his first love of composing film music. He has composed music for a large number of films. As well as his work with Dire Straits, Lindes was the session guitarist on "Vigil In a Wilderness of Mirrors", … - Terry Williams
Terry Williams (born January 11 1948, in Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes Paul McCartney, BB King, and Bob Dylan. During the 1960s, he played in a few bands, including The Smokeless Zone and Dream. After Dream split, Terry went on many musical journeys, joining Dave Edmunds' Rockpile, and also Welsh rock group Man, which consisted of two former Dream and Smokeless Zone members, Deke Leonard and Martin Ace. - Omar Hakim
Omar Hakim (born February 12,1959 New York City) is a noted drummer in jazz, jazz fusion and pop music. Among the notable artists he has played with are Sting, Weather Report, Mariah Carey, Madonna, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, Dire Straits and many others. - Chris White
Chris White (born Christopher Taylor White, 7 March 1943) was the bass guitarist and songwriter with the 1960s English band The Zombies. Although born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, he was brought up in Markyate where his parents owned a village shop. He replaced the band's initial bassist, Paul Arnold, because his father had somewhere the band could use for rehearsals. White was one of the band's two main songwriters, alongside Rod Argent, … - Ed Bicknell
Ed Bicknell was on the Hull University entertainments committee, arranging bands for the students, when he first got a taste for the music industry. Moving to London, he worked for agent John Sherry as a booker and soon joined the industry's hopeful pre-millionaires centred on the Speakeasy Club. When Sherry was asked to handle a new, unknown outfit, Dire Straits, Ed got the job and quickly struck up a special friendship with the band. - Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan (born July 2 1949 in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York City) is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed "The Professor", plays the piano, organ, accordion and synthesizers. Bittan has played on several dozen albums, not only for Springsteen but also David Bowie, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman, Chicago, Catie Curtis, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Meat Loaf, … - Phil Palmer
Phil Palmer is a session guitarist in jazz and rock who has worked with numerous artists, including the Pet Shop Boys, Wishbone Ash (1986 touring), Joan Armatrading, Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey, Dire Straits, Tina Turner, Chris de Burgh, Bryan Adams, George Michael, Wishbone Ash, Renato Zero and Melanie C. He often works with producer Trevor Horn. In 1993, Palmer assembled a band called Spin 1ne 2wo, … - Mel Collins
Mel Collins (born Melvyn Desmond Collins on 5 September, 1947, in the Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist and flautist and prominent session musician. He has worked with an extensive number of musicians, including Alexis Korner, Clannad, Eric Clapton, Bad Company, Dire Straits, Bryan Ferry, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones and many others, but his most important work was as a member of progressive rock bands King Crimson, Camel, Caravan, … - Celina
I am very open minded person and carrier oriented. Love to travel to exotic and cultural destinations and meet interesting people with several subjects on their mind. - Euclides
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- Manu Katché
Manu Katché is a French musician, born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés on October 27 1958. Though he is also a well-experienced and talented songwriter, he is most notably and widely regarded for his passionate, stylish and ultimately unique skill of playing drums. He was sky-rocketed to stardom in the music world in the mid-1980s mostly thanks to the huge success of Peter Gabriel's 1986 album "So" and his subsequent work with Sting. - Randy Brecker
Ronald "Randy" Brecker (b. Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Horace Silver, Frank Zappa, Parliament, Chris Parker, Jaco Pastorius, Dire Straits, and many others. Randy Brecker played on the first Blood Sweat & Tears album, … - Chris Whitten
Chris Whitten is a British session drummer who provided drums for the classic hits 'What I Am' by Edie Brickell, "World Shut your Mouth" by Julian Cope and 'The Whole Of The Moon' by The Waterboys. Two critically acclaimed projects in the 1990s were Paul McCartney's 'Flowers In The Dirt' album and Dire Straits 18 month tour 'On Every Street' Chris unusually has used a Noble and Cooley drumkit which are radically designed drums. - Dire Straits
Played bass guitar for the music group Dire Straits 1977-1995. - Dire Straits
- Charlie Gillett
Charlie Gillett born Feb 20, 1942 is a British radio presenter and writer, and in recent years has become one of the country's most influential proponents of 'world music'. Gillett began in journalism in 1968 with a weekly column in the "Record Mirror". His 1970 book, "The Sound of the City", was a history of popular music, originally written as his Masters thesis for Columbia University. - Roddy Frame
Roddy Frame (born January 29 1964, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is the founder of the 1980s indie band, Aztec Camera. Between 1981 and 1982 Frame was co-productive in fronting Postcard Records, where he began to befriend and record a string of low budget singles such as 'We could send letters' and 'A Mattress of Wire. The latter single drew attention from radio 1 DJ John Peel. - Tommy Mandel
Tommy Mandel (born New York City) is a keyboardist who is most famous for playing with Bryan Adams, from 1981 to 1998, starting with Bryan Adams's album "You Want It You Got It". He's also played with Dire Straits and others. - Steve Brown
Steve Brown started his career in the music industry with Elton John, joining the band as drummer Nigel Olsen's personal road manager. Steve, on occasions, met Gus Dudgeon Elton’s producer and was given the opportunity to sit in on mixing sessions at Trident studios London. This led to Steve applying for a studio job at Phonogram (now Universal) and on the 25th September 1972 started work, alongside ex-schoolfriend Steve Lillywhite at Phonogram's Marble Arch studios. - Jimmy Maelen
Jimmy Maelen was a percussionist in the 1960s-1980s, who worked with many artists including Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Dire Straits, Barry Manilow, Alice Cooper, and John Lennon. During the golden years of the disco era he was especially successful, working with the remix team of Michael Barbiero and John Luongo and overdubbing on extended dance versions of disco classics such as, Gonzales' "I Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet", … - Sid McGinnis
Sid McGinnis (born October 6, 1949) is an American musician and guitarist, best known for his work on the CBS Television show, "The Late Show with David Letterman", as part of the CBS Orchestra. The Pittsburgh-born guitarist made an appearance with the "Late Night with David Letterman" band in 1984 as guest guitarist and has remained as a permanent guitarist with Letterman's television shows ever since. - Jack Joseph Puig
Jack Joseph Puig is an American audio engineer and record producer. He is based in Los Angeles, California's Ocean Way studios. - George Borowski
George Borowski is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter, who has gained an indirect claim to immortality as Guitar George, a guitar player in the Dire Straits hit Sultans of Swing, who may have been a reference to Borowski. He was born in 1950, in Wrexham in North Wales to Russian and Polish parents. He is a great-nephew of the Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov. His family later moved to the north-west of England, where, as a teenager, … - Shelly Yakus
Shelly Yakus is considered as one of the best engineers and mixers in the music industry. Formerly Vice President of A&M Records, Shelly has engineered some of the most successful recordings from John Lennon's “Imagine” to U2’s “Rattle & Hum” and Shelly’s work has sold in excess of one hundred million records, equaling over one billion dollars in sales. He was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. - Uli Edel
Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg, Germany), German film director. After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well as popular US mainstream cinema. While still enrolled in film school, Edel started taking acting lessons. - Jan de Vos
- Holly Vincent
Holly Vincent/Holly Beth Vincent was the lead singer of Holly and the Italians, best known for the song "Tell That Girl To Shut Up". Later she formed a band called The Oblivious and released an album called "Vowel Movement" with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde. She dated Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. After she broke up with him, he wrote their hit single "Romeo and Juliet". Her most recent record is "Super Rocket Star", released in 2007. - Samantha Taylor
Samantha Taylor (born 1958) was the host of the CBC Television music video program "Video Hits" during the 1980s. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, as Myroslava Lastivka Lydia Luciw. Her family moved to Pennsylvania when she was three. She started her broadcast career while a student at Pennsylvania State University using the name Myra Luciw at the university radio station and the name Michele Michaels at a commercial station. - Paulette Carlson
Paulette Carlson, is a country singer who rose to fame as the lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. Paulette begin singing in bars in her hometown and later moved to Nashville where she found work as a songwriter for the Oak Ridge Boys’ Silverline Publishing Company. Her songs have been recorded by Gail Davies and Tammy Wynette, and she also sang backup vocals for Davies. - Paul Garred
Paul Garred(born: 23rd of May 1985) is the percussionist for popular British indie band, The Kooks. Although the band was formed in Brighton, Garred was born in Seaford. He attended Seaford head community College, where his mother is still a teacher. When he was about 16 years old he was in a local band called Stairwell, who changed their name to Little Help before disbanding. Garred later attended the BRIT School in Croydon and met Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris. - Aisha Gerber
Aisha Gerber (born June 21, 1990) is a world-class Canadian artistic gymnast. A member of the Cambridge Kips gymnastics club since the age of three, Gerber is coached by former Soviet Olympic champion Elvira Saadi and Vladimir Kondratenko. She began competing at the national level in 2000, placing second in the novice division at the Canada Elite meet. In 2001 she won the novice division; in 2002 she became the Canadian junior national champion.
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