Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni has died.<\/p>\n
The British rock band announced the news on X (formerly Twitter), writing “Jack Sonni Rest In Peace” with a photo of the musician.<\/p>\n
He was 68, according to the Dire Straits official blog.<\/p>\n
Sonni was affectionately referred to as the “other guitar player in Dire Straits” having joined the band – which was founded by Mark and David Knopfler, John Illsley and Pick Withers – in 1977.<\/p>\n
He met the Knopfler brothers while working in a Manhattan music shop and later travelled to London to visit their home.<\/p>\n
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\n <\/div>\n (L-R) Mark Knopfler and Jack Sonni in 1985
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He was invited to join the band in 1984 and was a member when the 1985 album Brothers In Arms achieved worldwide acclaim.<\/p>\n
The album spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one in the UK Albums Chart, and nine in the Billboard 200 in the US.<\/p>\n
It included some of the band’s most famous hits, including Walk of Life, Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms.<\/p>\n
The musician’s website described him as “a writer, musician, nomadic raconteur, father and grandfather who has taken to heart the reality of the hard-learned lesson that life is short”.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: <\/strong> It added: “He has embraced a philosophy to live well and live now in pursuit of creating memorable moments with friends and family.<\/p>\n “And he is one who knows the supreme importance of hugging them while you can\u2026 because tomorrow never knows.”<\/p>\n After leaving the Dire Straits, Sonni continued to play music, returning to the band that he formed in the late 1970s, The Leisure Class.<\/p>\n He also appeared regularly with other former members of Dire Straits in the Dire Straits Legacy project.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni has died. The British rock band announced the news on X (formerly Twitter), writing “Jack Sonni Rest In Peace” with a photo of the musician. He was 68, according to the Dire Straits official blog. Sonni was affectionately referred to as the “other guitar player in Dire Straits” having …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n The members of Dire Straits – (L-R) Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, Jack Sonni, John Illsley
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