The British band Dire Straits announced this Friday (1st) the death of Jack Sonni, “the other guitarist” in the lineup around the virtuoso Mark Knopfler.
“Jack Sonni, rest in peace,” the group wrote on Platform X (formerly Twitter) to announce the death of the rock band’s second guitarist.
John Thomas Sonni was born in Pennsylvania in December 1954 and was working at the famous New York musical instrument store Rudy’s in the late 1970s when he befriended Knopfler, who had just founded Dire Straits in London.
The group achieved sudden and intense fame with the song “Sultans of Swings”, their most famous song.
Sonni joined the band in the late 1980s to replace guitarist Hal Lindes during the recording of the album “Brothers in Arms”, which gave them a relaunch with the song “Money for Nothing”, their greatest commercial success, which was repeated in the program of the music station was broadcast. MTV.
He took part in a world tour and the Live Aid festival at Wembley Stadium in 1985, which raised funds against the famine in Ethiopia.
After working together briefly during this expansion period of the group, Sonni turned his attention to music marketing before Dire Straits disbanded in the mid1990s.
According to the trade press, Sonni died last Wednesday (30) at the age of 68.