Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler to auction Brothers In Arms guitars | UK News

For months, he begged his father for a Fiesta Red Fender Stratocaster, just like the one he’d seen Hank Marvin play on the cover of an EP. Unfortunately, they were too expensive, even on an architect’s salary. Eventually, Knopfler was given a twin-pick-up Höfner Super Solid, which cost £50, in the early 1960s.