You can find more information in our data protection declaration. A live performance from the Meistersaal, Berlin on the 10th September 2007 filmed and broadcast by German TV station, RBB. European tour dates were also announced for Spring/Summer 2015. A charity event in 2007 went wrong: a Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by Knopfler, Clapton, Brian May, and Jimmy Page, which was to be auctioned for £20,000 to raise the money for a children's hospice, was lost when being shipped. In addition to several of the compositions that Harris and Knopfler recorded together in the studio, Real Live Roadrunning features solo hits from both members of the duo, as well as three tracks from Knopfler's days with Dire Straits. The album included many of Mark Knopfler's most personal compositions, most notably "Romeo and Juliet" and "Tunnel of Love.". [48] In February 2011, Knopfler began work on his next solo album, Privateering, once again working with Guy Fletcher. Nonetheless, the album sold well and reached No. 2 in Norway and Sweden, No. 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 is a slow person, he says of himself; he takes his time walking, thinking, reacting, and he avoids stress. Knopfler joined the charity ensemble Ferry Aid on "Let It Be" in the wake of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. The successful British band Dire Straits' frontman, who now turns 70, finds looking back as unpleasant as life in the limelight. | Mobile version, Sting's 'musical hard drive': Guitarist Dominic Miller on his new album. He has been known to sip tea on stage during live performances. With Love Over Gold still in the albums charts, the band released a four-song EP titled ExtendedancEPlay in early 1983. [56] In 2016 he collaborated with the Italian bluesman Zucchero Fornaciari playing in Ci si arrende and Streets of Surrender (S.O.S.) This band's main line-up has lasted much longer than any Dire Straits line-up. With the November release of 2018's Down the Road Wherever, a Mark Knopfler world tour in support of the new album was announced for 2019. The brothers never got in touch again. Even before the last bar had been played, several record labels called the station to find out who had written the song. It was also released in VHS video and reached number three in the UK Albums Chart, and was reissued in DVD and Blu-ray format in 2010. He became known as the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. The Notting Hillbillies sole studio album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time was released in 1990 and featured the minor hit single "Your Own Sweet Way". Their 1978 debut album, Dire Straits, was an international success, establishing the band's trademark sound marked by the frontman's unique fingerpicking and a laconic singing style unmistakably influenced by Bob Dylan. Interestingly, he used a number of different amps to get all those different types of tone. 3 in Germany, The Netherlands and Italy, No. In October 2008 Knopfler declined a suggestion by John Illsley that the band should reform. Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. 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. The band recorded six albums, including Brothers in Arms (1985), one of the bestselling albums in history. Dire Straits' biggest studio album by far was their fifth, Brothers in Arms, recorded at Air Studios Montserrat and released in May 1985. In March 1984 the double album Alchemy Live was released, which documented the recordings of these final two live shows. On 3 September 2012, Knopfler's seventh solo album, Privateering, was released. While many superstars spent the 1980s more time in detox than in the studio, he stayed away from excesses and scandals. 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. With Germany's harder coronavirus lockdown in place, the Berlin International Film Festival plans massive changes for its upcoming edition. Legal notice | A tour of Europe and North America followed in 2008. [23] Two years later, he decided to further his education, and later graduated with a degree in English at the University of Leeds. Knopfler is left-handed, but plays the guitar right-handed. [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. Here he met the ageing poet Basil Bunting, who was a copy editor. The album peaked at No. In 2002, Knopfler gave four charity concerts with former Dire Straits members John Illsley, Chris White, Danny Cummings and Guy Fletcher, playing old material from the Dire Straits years. 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. 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. Knopfler did not attend the induction ceremony, however remaining members Clark, Fletcher, and Illsley were in attendance to accept the award on behalf of the band. [33] Their marriage ended in 1993. Parcelforce, the company responsible, agreed to pay £15,000 for its loss.[42][43]. [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. He is now an independent solo artist. Shortly after this, drummer Terry Williams left the band. 2000 saw the release of Knopfler's next solo album, Sailing to Philadelphia. We were changed by it. Knopfler also charted two singles on the Canadian country music singles chart. [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. Mark Knopfler's unique guitar playing made Dire Straits world famous. Knopfler wrote the music score for the film The Princess Bride, released at the end of 1987. 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. The tour started with a show on 25 April in Barcelona[57] during which Knopfler confirmed to the live audience that the on-going tour would be his last tour ever. While Dire Straits depended on its frontman, Knopfler did fine without his original formation. During that same year Rolling Stone magazine listed Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, which included Sultans of Swing, Dire Straits' first hit. Dire Straits reunited in early 1991, but dissolved again in 1995. In 2018, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [46], In February 2009, Knopfler gave an intimate solo concert at the Garrick Club in London. The most meticulous and gifted of craftsmen, Mark Knopfler is known to one and all as the genius guitarist, singer and writer whose new take on country, folk and British roots launched the meteoric rise of Dire Straits – and kept them at the top of the pile when music tastes changed. Whatever the zeitgeist was that we had been part of, it had passed." Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. Also in 2002, Knopfler released his third solo album, The Ragpicker's Dream. Mark's older sister Ruth was born in Newcastle, where Mark's parents were married, in 1947. In the promo for Shangri-La on his official website, he said his current line-up of Glenn Worf (bass), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Chad Cromwell (drums), Richard Bennett (guitar), and Matt Rollings (piano) "...play Dire Straits songs better than Dire Straits did." An ex-intelligence agent, le Carre knew his subject firsthand. Continuing a pattern of high productivity through his solo career, Knopfler began work on his next studio album, entitled Get Lucky, in September 2008 with long-time bandmate Guy Fletcher, who again compiled a pictorial diary of the making of the album on his website. Selections from the duo's performance of 28 June at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, California, were released as a DVD entitled Real Live Roadrunning on 14 November 2006. 1 on the UK singles chart in March 1987. 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. In 1989, Knopfler formed the Notting Hillbillies,[19] a band at the other end of the commercial spectrum. Knopfler performed on the track 17 Hills. 9 in Spain, No. Randy Travis released another of Knopfler's songs, "Are We in Trouble Now", in 1996. The group's second album, Communiqué, produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, followed in 1979. Mark Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. [38] Two more Dire Straits albums were released, both live albums. In September 1988 Mark Knopfler announced the official dissolution of Dire Straits, saying that he "needed a rest". 25 in Ireland, and No. He is best known as 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 peerless as craftsman and virtuoso, able to plug into rock's classic lineage and bend it to sometimes wild forms. [53] A short run of five shows were played in the US that Autumn. [1] He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, including Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), Wag the Dog (1997) and Altamira (2016). 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). Contact 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.". Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. Mark Knopfler - Biography. Border Reiver Lyrics: Southern bound from Glasgow town, she's shining in the sun / I'm ensconced in mercy, on the border run / We're whistling down the hillsides and tearing up … Knopfler further emphasised his country music influences with his collaboration with Chet Atkins, Neck and Neck, which was also released in 1990. Upon graduation in 1973, Knopfler moved to London and joined a band based in High Wycombe called Brewers Droop, appearing on the album The Booze Brothers. 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. He pursued a solo career after leaving the band in 1987. He pursued a solo career after leaving the band in 1987. Knopfler discovered music as a child. Released in April 2006, All the Roadrunning reached No. After they disbanded in 1995, Knopfler began a solo career, and has produced nine solo albums. Mark's brother, David Knopfler, who was also a guitarist and songwriter, introduced Mark to a fellow musician John Illsley, who played guitar but was also a solid bassist. We use cookies to improve our service for you. His brother David moved to London, where he shared a flat with John Illsley, a guitarist who changed over to playing bass guitar. [37] On Valentine's Day 1997 in Barbados, Knopfler married British actress and writer Kitty Aldridge, whom he had known for three years. The only previously unreleased track on the album is All the Roadrunning, a duet with country music singer Emmylou Harris, which was followed in 2006 by an album of duets of the same name. This week: "InstaLab for iOS & Android". 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. When Dire Straits was inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, Knopfler refused to perform or even attend the ceremony. Knopfler's first solo album, Golden Heart, was released in March 1996. Mark's younger brother David left the band after the second album because he felt Mark was too dominant. Mark Knopfler lives a secluded life in London with his third wife and their two daughters. Knopfler, Illsley, Alan Clark, and Guy Fletcher set about recording what turned out to be their final studio album accompanied by sidemen Phil Palmer, pedal steel guitarist Paul Franklin, percussionist Danny Cummings and Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro. 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. He is now an independent solo artist. [9], Mark Freuder Knopfler was born on 12 August 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Louisa Mary (née Laidler), and a Hungarian-Jewish father, Erwin Knopfler. [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. 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. [45], Knopfler's solo live performances can be characterised as relaxed—almost workmanlike. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. In April 1977, Mark moved out of his flat in Buckhurst Hill and moved in with David and John. Mark’s choice of amps is a pretty interesting one. The Official Website of Mark Knopfler. [63] They have two daughters.[19]. 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. It features Knopfler's old bandmate Guy Fletcher on keyboards. 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. Richard Bennett, who has been playing with him on tour since 1996, has also joined in drinking tea with him on stage. Mark Knopfler performing "Postcards From Paraguay" from his solo album Shangri-La at the AVO Session in Basel, Switzerland on the 12th November, 2007. During 1983 and 1984, Knopfler was involved with other projects as well, including writing and producing the music score to the film Local Hero, which was a great success,[28] and it was followed in 1984 by his scores for the films Cal and Comfort and Joy. If you’ve listened to more than one album of Dire Straits, you probably have a clear enough picture when it comes to his tone. Also in 1996, Knopfler recorded guitar for Ted Christopher's Dunblane massacre tribute cover, Knockin' on Heaven's Door. The concerts also featured The Notting Hillbillies with Brendan Croker and Steve Phillips. [60] In its review of Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms in 1985, Spin commented: "Mark Knopfler may be the most lyrical of all rock guitarists. 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 !) The band embarked on a 1985–1986 Brothers in Arms world tour of over 230[19] shows which was immensely successful. This featured the tracks "Private Investigations," "Telegraph Road," "Industrial Disease," "It Never Rains," and "Love Over Gold" (Dire Straits song) the title track of the album. 1 in Denmark and Switzerland, No. During the autumn of 2007 he played a series of intimate 'showcases' in various European cities to promote the album. 1 in the UK. 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. [29][30] Brothers in Arms spawned several chart singles including the US # 1 hit "Money for Nothing", which was the first video played on MTV in Britain. 2 on the Billboard European Album chart and at No. On 15 September 1997, Knopfler appeared at the Music for Montserrat concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, performing alongside artists such as Sting, Phil Collins, Elton John, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney.[40]. "[36] This drove the band into the ground, and ultimately led to the group's final dissolution in 1995.[37]. [24] In April 1970, while living in Leeds, Knopfler recorded a demo disk of an original song he had written, "Summer's Coming My Way". Even so, he found it impossible to play unless he finger-picked it. In this low-key tour the band packed out smaller venues such as Newcastle University. Following the tour, Knopfler took some time off from the music business. 41 in Australia. The album met with moderate success on the charts (much of it in Europe) reaching No. The follow-up to Brothers in Arms was finally released in September 1991. [4] As of 2009, he and Dire Straits had sold more than 120 million records. For both the album and the tour Paul Franklin was added to the line-up on pedal steel. He also wrote the song "Private Dancer" for Tina Turner's comeback album of the same name. In 2006 in London, Knopfler opened British Grove, a recording studio where he records his own albums, and which is also used by the likes of Eric Clapton, Duffy, the Rolling Stones and various orchestras. The conductor talks with DW about life in amidst of the coronavirus. As early as 1979, Knopfler played lead guitar on Bob Dylan's album Slow Train Coming and later wrote Tina Turner's comeback hit, "Private Dancer.". 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." In 1995, following the release of Live at the BBC (a contractual release to Vertigo Records), Mark Knopfler quietly dissolved Dire Straits and launched his career as a solo artist. On the Night, released in May 1993, documented Dire Straits' final world tour. "[3], Knopfler has been married three times, first to Kathy White, his long-time girlfriend from school days. In India, his concerts at Mumbai and Bangalore were well received, with over 20,000 fans at each concert. covered with unused Mark Knopfler tour passes and looking absolutely fabulous. The recording included Knopfler (guitar and vocals), Steve Phillips (second guitar), Dave Johnson (bass), and Paul Granger (percussion). [16] Knopfler later described his father as a Marxist agnostic.[17]. 153.3k Followers, 0 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mark Knopfler (@markknopfler) 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. Dire Straits reunited in early 1991, but dissolved again in 1995. In that same year, Knopfler's solo single "Darling Pretty" reached a peak of No. 1 only in Norway but peaking in the Top 5 in most major European countries (Germany, Italy, The Netherlands). Privacy Policy | He said in a later interview, "That was where I found my 'voice' on guitar." Six songs into his set in Sugar Land last night, Mark Knopfler stopped to tell the tale of "Matchstick Man." 92. The Shangri-La tour took Knopfler to countries such as India and the United Arab Emirates for the first time. [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. 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… [27], Dire Straits' first demos were recorded in three sessions in 1977, with David Knopfler as rhythm guitarist, John Illsley as bass guitarist, and Pick Withers as drummer. 2020 is Beethoven’s anniversary year. Un año más, Mark Knopfler visita nuestra país presentando su nuevo disco Tracker, y como no, nos deleita con su guitarra Pensa, y el mítico Telegraph Road. [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. In March 2003 he was involved in a motorbike crash in Grosvenor Road, Belgravia and suffered a broken collarbone, broken shoulder blade and seven broken ribs. 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. 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. [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. In addition to his work in Dire Straits and solo, Knopfler has made several contributions to country music. Mark had attended Bearsden Primary School in Scotland for two years; both brothers attended Gosforth Grammar School in Newcastle. This has been his most successful to date, possibly helped by the number of notable contributors to the album, like Van Morrison. He wrote terrific songs, too: taut mini-dramas of dark depths and dazzling melodic and lyrical flourishes. contained in Black Cat. 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. 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