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DIRE STRAITS
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On the face of it, Dire Straits didn’t belong in this new decade. Put it down to the cultural baggage of 1985’s Brothers In Arms – the inescapable fifth album that surfed the CD boom into a billion yuppie glove boxes. But by 1991, as the grunge storm gathered in Seattle, the South London band were widely seen as a muso relic. “We got a lot of flak,” reflects guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler. “For a while I was just as happy playing a game of tennis as picking up a guitar.”