Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" has remained one of the band's best-known songs for nearly five decades, and its latest chart ...

In 1978, a song about a little-known pub band quietly transformed Dire Straits into international stars. "Sultans of Swing" became the band's breakthrough hit and eventually one of the defining rock ...

It was a rainy night in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, when Mark Knopfler found himself in a small pub watching a Dixieland jazz band playing to an audience of less than a handful of drunken patrons. The ...

Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" has remained one of the band's best-known songs for nearly five decades, and its latest chart activity shows that listeners are still finding it in the streaming era.