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Article: Calling Dire Straits back to rock 'n' roll wars

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February 16, 1992
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Dire Straits 7:30 p.m. Tuesday

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Hitting it big with their first album gave the members of Dire Straits a luxury few can afford: the ability to play their music without worrying about how they looked doing it. The British musicians still don't look like rock stars, and the bulk of their material certainly doesn't sound like the kind of songs that sell

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