2 on the Billboard European Album chart and at No. Knopfler had recently become a member of the exclusive gentlemen's club for men of letters. The Official Website of Mark Knopfler. On 27 July 1977 they recorded the demo tapes of five songs: "Wild West End," "Sultans of Swing," "Down to the Waterline," "Sacred Loving" (a David Knopfler song), and "Water of Love." [10][11][12][13][14][15] His mother was a teacher and his father was an architect and a chess player who left his native Hungary in 1939 to flee the Nazis. On 31 July 2005, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, BC, the tea was replaced with whisky as a "last show of tour" sort of joke. He is a slow person, he says of himself; he takes his time walking, thinking, reacting, and he avoids stress. The recording included Knopfler (guitar and vocals), Steve Phillips (second guitar), Dave Johnson (bass), and Paul Granger (percussion). "[3], Knopfler has been married three times, first to Kathy White, his long-time girlfriend from school days. As the musician who marked rock history turns 70, here's a look back at the anti-star's career. p. 186. Illsley said that a reunion would be "entirely up to Mark"; however, he also observed that Knopfler was enjoying his success as a solo artist. In October 2008 Knopfler declined a suggestion by John Illsley that the band should reform. 2 in Norway and Sweden, No. So far, he has released nine solo albums, and he's hinted that the current album could be his last — his back hurts and his eyesight isn't getting any better, either, he says. With Love Over Gold still in the albums charts, the band released a four-song EP titled ExtendedancEPlay in early 1983. The concerts also featured The Notting Hillbillies with Brendan Croker and Steve Phillips. [63] They have two daughters.[19]. [54] Knopfler began work on another studio album in September 2013, again at his British Grove Studios in London with Guy Fletcher co-producing. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Mark Knopfler - Going Home: Theme Of The Local Hero (Live At Goodwood, … 92. After a further tour with Bob Dylan in the US during October and November,[52] the Privateering tour of Europe followed in Spring/Summer 2013. Many of these songs reflect Knopfler's experiences in Newcastle, Leeds, and London, and were featured on their first album, the eponymous Dire Straits, which was released in the following year: "Down to the Waterline" recalled images of life in Newcastle; "In The Gallery" is a tribute to a Leeds sculptor and artist named Harry Phillips (father of Steve Phillips); and "Lions," "Wild West End," and "Eastbound Train" were all drawn from Knopfler's early days in the capital. This band's main line-up has lasted much longer than any Dire Straits line-up. [41] The planned Ragpicker's Dream tour was subsequently cancelled, but Knopfler recovered and returned to the stage in 2004 for his fourth album, Shangri-La. Knopfler further emphasised his country music influences with his collaboration with Chet Atkins, Neck and Neck, which was also released in 1990. In 1989, Knopfler formed the Notting Hillbillies,[19] a band at the other end of the commercial spectrum. [53] A short run of five shows were played in the US that Autumn. Dire Straits reunited in early 1991, but dissolved again in 1995. Nostalgia is not guitarist Mark Knopfler's strong suit. In this low-key tour the band packed out smaller venues such as Newcastle University. The Official Website of Mark Knopfler. We were changed by it. He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman. After the Brothers in Arms world tour Dire Straits ceased to work together for some time, Knopfler concentrating mainly on film soundtracks. He pursued a solo career after leaving the band in 1987. Manager Ed Bicknell is quoted as saying "The last tour was utter misery. In September 1988 Mark Knopfler announced the official dissolution of Dire Straits, saying that he "needed a rest". Knopfler penned the score for the musical version of Local Hero, including new songs alongside adding lyrics to the original instrumental music, reuniting again with Bill Forsyth.[59]. [48] In February 2011, Knopfler began work on his next solo album, Privateering, once again working with Guy Fletcher. However, keyboardist Guy Fletcher has been associated with almost every piece of Knopfler's solo material to date, while Danny Cummings has also contributed frequently, playing on three of Knopfler's solo album releases All the Roadrunning (with Emmylou Harris), Kill to Get Crimson, and Get Lucky. "[36] This drove the band into the ground, and ultimately led to the group's final dissolution in 1995.[37]. Shortly after this, drummer Terry Williams left the band. [39] When asked about a possible reunion, Knopfler responded, "Oh, I don't know whether to start getting all that stuff back together again", and that the global fame Dire Straits achieved in the 1980s "just got too big".[39]. 3 in Germany, The Netherlands and Italy, No. [62] According to Classic Rock in 2018: "The bare-boned economy of Knopfler's songs and his dizzying guitar fills were a breath of clean air amid the lumbering rock dinosaurs and one-dimensional punk thrashers of the late 70s. The Shangri-La tour took Knopfler to countries such as India and the United Arab Emirates for the first time. If you want to take pictures with your smartphone and quickly share beautiful results, you need effective image editing tools. Mark’s choice of amps is a pretty interesting one. [56] In 2016 he collaborated with the Italian bluesman Zucchero Fornaciari playing in Ci si arrende and Streets of Surrender (S.O.S.) Described by Classic Rock as a virtuoso,[3] Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". On its initial release, the album Dire Straits received little fanfare in the UK, but when "Sultans of Swing" was released as a single, it became a chart hit in the Netherlands and album sales took off – first across Europe, and then in the United States and Canada, and finally the UK. Mark and band performing "Sultans Of Swing" live at an exclusive Prince's Trust event at London's Hurlingham Club on the 9th September 2009. 2000 saw the release of Knopfler's next solo album, Sailing to Philadelphia. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. In 2018, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The record companies showed no interest until legendary radio DJ Charlie Gillett played a Dire Straits demo tape in his Honky Tonk BBC show, a track called "Sultans of Swing." He was the lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977.He was born in Glasgow but raised near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Big plans were made — then the pandemic came. Even before the last bar had been played, several record labels called the station to find out who had written the song. Knopfler discovered music as a child. Parcelforce, the company responsible, agreed to pay £15,000 for its loss.[42][43]. He uses very little stage production, other than some lighting effects to enhance the music's dynamics. Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. In India, his concerts at Mumbai and Bangalore were well received, with over 20,000 fans at each concert. He became known as the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler's Concert History Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. Randy Travis released another of Knopfler's songs, "Are We in Trouble Now", in 1996. In 1993, he received an honorary music doctorate from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Following the tour, Knopfler took some time off from the music business. Knopfler released his fifth solo studio-album Kill to Get Crimson on 14 September 2007 in Germany, 17 September in the UK and 18 September in the United States. In July 2011, it was announced that Knopfler would take time out from recording his new album to take part in a European tour with Bob Dylan during October and November. The Notting Hillbillies sole studio album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time was released in 1990, and Knopfler then toured with the Notting Hillbillies for the remainder of that year. A charity concert in London in 1997 with Sting (l) and Eric Clapton (r), "I don't look back," Knopfler once told Germany's Gitarre & Bass music magazine, expressing dislike for "all those skeletons who come crawling out of their graves to earn a few more euros with their old songs.". The album sold more than 30 million copies and the video to "Money For Nothing," an ironic look at the music business in which Sting sang the line "I want my MTV" was the first to be released when the television network for music videos was launched in Europe. Knopfler is a fan of his local football club Newcastle United F.C..[64] "Going Home (Theme of the Local Hero)" is used by Newcastle United as an anthem at home games. Richard Bennett, who has been playing with him on tour since 1996, has also joined in drinking tea with him on stage. In 1963, when he was 13, he took a Saturday job at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle newspaper earning six shillings and sixpence. In 1990, Knopfler, John Illsley, and Alan Clark performed as Dire Straits at Knebworth, joined by Eric Clapton, Ray Cooper, and guitarist Phil Palmer (who was at that time part of Eric Clapton's touring band), and in January the following year, Knopfler, John Illsley and manager Ed Bicknell decided to reform Dire Straits. contained in Black Cat. The band members included keyboardist Guy Fletcher, with Brendan Croker and Steve Phillips. In 1968, after studying journalism for a year at Harlow College,[19][21] Knopfler was hired as a junior reporter in Leeds for the Yorkshire Evening Post. The Hillbillies toured the UK in early 1990 with a limited number of shows. [38] Two more Dire Straits albums were released, both live albums. The studio album which followed was Love Over Gold, released in 1982. [55] On 16 September 2014, it was announced that this new album would be entitled Tracker, and that it would see a release in early 2015. There were frequent personnel changes within Dire Straits after Making Movies, with Mark Knopfler, Illsley and keyboard player Alan Clark the only constant members. In 1997, Knopfler recorded the soundtrack for the movie Wag the Dog. In November 2005 a compilation, Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler was released, consisting of material from most of Dire Straits' studio albums and Knopfler's solo and soundtrack material. In 2006, Knopfler and Emmylou Harris made a country album together titled All the Roadrunning, followed by a live CD-DVD titled Real Live Roadrunning. His uncle's piano playing sparked his passion for music, and his parents gave him his first guitar. Again in 2006, Knopfler contributed the song "Whoop De Doo" to Jimmy Buffett's Gulf and Western style album Take the Weather with You. He also wrote the song "Private Dancer" for Tina Turner's comeback album of the same name. It featured the UK single "Darling Pretty". [32], Dire Straits regrouped for 11 June 1988 Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, in which they were the headline act, and were accompanied by Elton John and Eric Clapton,[33] who by this time had developed a strong friendship with Knopfler. His mother was a teacher, his father was a Hungarian architect who had fled his country in 1939 because he was close to the Communists. [5][6] A four-time Grammy Award winner, Knopfler is the recipient of the Edison Award, the Steiger Award and the Ivor Novello Award, as well as holding three honorary doctorate degrees in music from universities in the United Kingdom. Knopfler never made a secret of appreciating peace and quiet. [65][66], Knopfler was estimated to have a fortune of £75 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2018, making him one of the 40 wealthiest people in the British music industry. [49] The next year Knopfler covered a Bob Dylan song, "Restless Farewell", for an Amnesty International 50th Anniversary celebration record.[50]. Featuring the hit single "Twisting by the Pool”, this was the first output by the band that featured new drummer Terry Williams, (formerly of Rockpile and Man), who had replaced Pick Withers in November 1982. [51] This was Knopfler's first double album solo release and contained 20 new songs. The album's recording sessions helped create Knopfler's backing band, which is also known as The 96ers. He is now an independent solo artist. After a brief stint with Brewers Droop, Knopfler took a job as a lecturer at Loughton College in Essex – a position he held for three years. | Mobile version, Sting's 'musical hard drive': Guitarist Dominic Miller on his new album. Legal notice | His brother David moved to London, where he shared a flat with John Illsley, a guitarist who changed over to playing bass guitar. We recently constructed a list of the greatest Fender Strat players of all time and one of the most repeated names of people we missed off the list was Dire Straits’ own Mark Knopfler. Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Also during this time Knopfler produced Bob Dylan's Infidels album, as well as Knife by Aztec Camera. For his brother, see, Anthony Bateman (2008). This charity auction features a genuine 1965 vintage silver/grey acoustic guitar chipboard case as supplied by Gibson for L1 and similar size acoustic guitars (although you don’t need to put a guitar in it !) [16] Knopfler later described his father as a Marxist agnostic.[17]. This was to be Dire Straits' final world tour; it was not as well received as the previous Brothers in Arms tour, and by this time Mark Knopfler had had enough of such huge operations. [citation needed]. In the documentary Mark Knopfler: Guitar Stories, Knopfler and Dire Straits bassist John Illsley discuss guitars recall how they had missed that live broadcast because they were helping someone move. He is a slow person, he says of himself; he takes his time walking, thinking, reacting, and he avoids stress. Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. However, during the tour this statement softened,[58] stating he will continue as he loves touring so much, joking he'd be unemployed and doesn't know what else to do. On the Night, released in May 1993, documented Dire Straits' final world tour. Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (/ ˈ n ɒ p f l ər / NOP-flər; born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.He became known as the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits.He pursued a solo career after leaving the band in 1987. Originally inspired by his uncle Kingsley's harmonica and boogie-woogie piano playing, Mark soon became familiar with many different styles of music. He became known as the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. After graduating from the University of Leeds and working for three years as a college lecturer, Knopfler co-founded Dire Straits with his younger brother, David Knopfler. Judging by his isolated guitar on the band’s ‘Sultans of Swing’ they may have had a point. It became an international blockbuster that has now sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and is the fourth best selling album in UK chart history. He has been known to sip tea on stage during live performances. Fender Vibrolux comes to mind as the first important amp. Released in April 2006, All the Roadrunning reached No. In that same year, Knopfler's solo single "Darling Pretty" reached a peak of No. It was used for their first album, while it came to foreground the most on the “Sultans of Swing.” Next amplifier th… He pursued a solo career after leaving the band in 1987. They separated before Knopfler moved to London to join Brewers Droop in 1973. Mark Knopfler also took part in a comedy skit (featured on the French and Saunders Show) titled The Easy Guitar Book Sketch with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians David Gilmour, Lemmy from Motörhead, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore. Nearly all his bestsellers have been made into blockbusters — hardly surprising, since his novels deliver page-turning suspense and complex espionage plots. Knopfler was born on August 12, 1949 in Glasgow. 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