Chris White

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Saxophonist Chris White played with Dire Straits for 10 years.

He has also recorded and played with many other top artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Aretha Franklin, Robbie Williams, Chris de Burgh, Aztec Camera, Haircut 100.

More recently he has been managing and touring with his band ‘The Dire Straits Experience’ and has a packed tour scheduled in multiple venues though-out Europe through to May next year.

Chris talks about how hearing the saxophone played on television at the age of thirteen triggered his lifelong passion and career as a saxophonist, what it was like playing at The Live Aid and Nelson Mandela Concerts at Wembley Stadium and some of the extraordinary experiences he encountered along the way.