The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has long been a place for unlikely reunions between musicians who haven’t spoken to each other in years. This wasn’t the case for Dire Straits. In the end, the group was only represented by a trio consisting of bassist John Illsley (the only member who stayed from the beginning to the end apart from Mark Knopfler), Alan Clark, who was the keyboardist from 1980 to 1995, and Guy Fletcher, who was also on the keyboard from 1984 to 1995 and has since been a faithful collaborator with Knopfler on most of his projects. They didn’t even give a performance, contrary to tradition at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies. At the same event, Jon Bon Jovi put an end to a 24-year squabble with the bassist Alec John Such and performed with guitarist Richie Sambora for the first time since 2013…
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