When Dire Straits was working on their third album, Making Movies, released in 1980, vocalist Mark Knopfler was writing a pensive ballad based on one of William Shakespeare’s most legendary plays.

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s ...

Taken from the 1980 Dire Straits album Making Movies it can still be found in song polls today. It ranked number 36 in Radio 2’s recent Top 50 songs and did even better in the Daily Mail’s All ...

Taken from the 1980 Dire Straits album Making Movies it can still be found in song polls today. It ranked number 36 in Radio 2’s recent Top 50 songs and did even better in the Daily Mail’s All ...