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David Lanz (born June 28, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. He has released 13 albums, each having some chart success.[vague] His most famous album, Cristofori's Dream, topped the New Age charts in 1988, which was Number One on Billboard's first adult alternative/New Age chart for 27 weeks and eventually sold platinum. Natural States peaked at place 125 on the Billboard 200.

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Sheet Collections :
  • Leaves on the seine - 5pp
  • Return to the heart - 4pp
  • Solos for new age piano book - 78pp
  • Behind the waterfall - 4pp
  • Courage of the wind - 7pp
  • Cristotori's dream - 9pp
  • Dream Field - 6pp
  • Faces of the forest - 7pp
  • Farewell Amparo - 2pp
  • Heartsounds - 4pp
  • Leaves on the seine - 5pp
  • Nightfall - 8pp
  • Song for Monet - 6pp
  • Spiral Dance - 9pp
  • Summer's Child - 5pp
  • Valencia - 5pp

Dire Straits were a British rock band, active between 1977 and 1995. The band was formed by Mark Knopfler (vocals and lead guitar), his younger brother David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion), and managed by Ed Bicknell. Although the band was formed in an era when punk rock was at the forefront, Dire Straits played a more conventional style, albeit with a stripped-down sound that appealed to audiences also weary of the overproduced stadium rock of the 1970s. In their early days, Mark and David requested that pub owners turn down their sound so that patrons could converse while the band played, an indication of their unassuming demeanor. Despite this oddly self-effacing approach to rock and roll, Dire Straits soon became hugely successful, with their first album going multi-platinum globally.

Throughout Dire Straits' career Mark Knopfler was the songwriter and also the driving force behind the group. The band's best-known songs include "Sultans of Swing", "Romeo and Juliet", "Tunnel of Love", "Telegraph Road", "Private Investigations", "Money for Nothing", "Walk of Life", "So Far Away", "Brothers in Arms","On Every Street" and "Calling Elvis".

Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler have sold in excess of 120 million albums to date.

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Sheet Collections :
  • Brothers In Arms - 6pp
  • Down to the Waterline - 3pp
  • Money for Nothing - 4pp
  • Portobello Belle - 4pp
  • Private Investigations - 5pp
  • Romeo And Juliet - 5pp
  • Sultans of Swing - 4pp
  • Telegraph Road - 11pp
  • Tunnel of Love - 11pp
  • Walk of Life - 3pp
  • Walk of Life - 5pp
  • Where Do You Think You Are Going - 4pp