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Infidels, Dylan's first secular album in half a decade, was graced with a bounty of sweetly tasteful leads from the Dire ...
Sultans of Swing” gives Dire Straits its first streaming hit in the U.K., as renewed interest in Mark Knopfler's work seems to lift the band’s music.
SINGAPORE – The Straits Times Index slid almost 0.8 per cent during intra-day trading but managed to erase the losses and closed slightly down on April 1. The Singapore blue-chip gauge dipped 3. ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut has influenced generations of musicians. But it took a producer four years to persuade Smith to enter the studio. As the album approaches its 50th birthday ...
Describing the situation as “dire”, Nicholas Haysom, the UN Special Representative and head of the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, said on Monday that international efforts to support ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ratings agency Moody's said on Tuesday that the U.S.' fiscal strength is on track for a continued multi-year decline as budget deficits widen and debt becomes less affordable.
The world-famous Massed Bands of His Majesty’s Royal Marines played their spectacular annual showpiece at the Royal Albert Hall over the weekend for the 53rd year. In front of a packed Royal Albert ...
A rock musician best known for an iconic sports anthem is dead at age 82. The Standells announced over the weekend that Larry Tamblyn, the garage rock band’s keyboardist, singer and co-founder ...
The visiting artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, scientists and thinkers who once flocked to our shores in times of peace — and when their own countries were lost to fascism — will choose ...
A Halifax-based folk music duo say police who pulled them over on an Ohio highway earlier this month accused them of having drugs in their rental car and questioned them about their allegiance in ...
Dire Straits will release a 3-CD expanded edition of their massively successful 1985 album Brothers in Arms on May 16. Two of the three CDs are dedicated to a previously unreleased live recording ...