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Mark Knopfler and Jack Sonni of Dire Straits during the Live Aid concert, Wembley Stadium, London, UK, July 13, 1985. DUNCAN RABAN/POPPERFOTO / POPPERFOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES
Rock band Dire Straits, known for their classics Sultans of Swings or Money for Nothing, announced Friday the death of Jack Sonni, guitarist of the formation of the virtuoso Mark Knopfler. According to the specialized press, “the other guitarist” of the Dire Straits, a nickname he did not deny, died Wednesday at the age of 68.
“Jack Sonni, Rest In Peace”soberly wrote the group on the social network X (formerly Twitter) to announce the death of its former second guitarist.
Born in Pennsylvania in December 1954, Jack Sonni, whose real name is John Thomas Sonni, was working at Rudy’s, a famous guitar store in New York, in the late 1970s when he befriended Knopfler, who had just founded in London the Dire Straits. The group then knows a glory as intense as sudden with Sultans of Swingshis still most emblematic title where clear, rhythmic chords reverberate in chorus, and cascading guitar solos tinged with blues.
Jack Sonni joined the band in the mid-80s to replace guitarist Hal Lindes while Dire Straits recorded Brothers in Armsan album which once again propelled him to the fore with the play Money for Nothinghis greatest commercial success, broadcast on a loop on the music channel MTV.
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There followed a dizzying world tour and participation in the cult Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in 1985 to raise funds against the famine then raging in Ethiopia. After briefly participating in the group’s boom period, Jack Sonni branched out into marketing, but focusing on the music industry, before the Dire Straits broke up in the mid-1990s.
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