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  • Sep 15, 1988
    Mark Knopfler announces Dire Straits is finished. Knopfler subsequently has several country hits as a songwriter: "The Bug," by Mary Chapin Carpenter; "Setting Me Up," by Highway 101; and "When It Comes To You," by John Anderson
    Jul 1, 1990
    Nearly two years after the band split, Dire Straits is re-organized. Vince Gill declines an invitation from Mark Knopfler to tour as a guitar player with the band
    Sep 10, 1991
    Warner Bros. releases Dire Straits' album "On Every Street." It contains two Mark Knopfler songs destined to become country hits: "The Bug," for Mary Chapin Carpenter; and "When It Comes To You," for John Anderson
    Dec 13, 2017
    "Who Says You Can't Go Home" hitmakers Bon Jovi are announced as 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, along with Dire Straits, The Cars, The Moody Blues, Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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