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Mark Knopfler is a British musician best known as the lead guitarist and singer of the rock band Dire Straits. He matters because of his influential guitar work and songwriting, which helped define rock music from the 1970s onward.
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- Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler - Little Black Songbook
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- Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
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Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born August 12, 1949) is a British songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977. Described by Classic Rock as a virtuoso, Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100…
Known for
- Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms2025
- Mark Knopfler - One Deep River2024
- Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends — Self - Host2024
- Great North: A Run. A River. A Region. — Self2021
- Lindisfarne's Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story — Self2021
- Under the Volcano — Self2021
- Mark Knopfler: Live at Madison Square Garden 2019 — lead vocals, guitar2019
- Mark Knopfler - Milano 20192019
- Mark Knopfler - Live in Valencia 2019 — Singer, Lead Guitar2019
- Twenty Eighteen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self [Dire Straits]2018
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Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. 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. Since Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler has recorded and produced nine solo albums and, as with his previous band, produ
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Quotes
- “You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory.Well the word is out and I learned.I got the latest side of the story:You're pulling out before you get burned.”
- “And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the sceneHe's got a daytime job, he's doing alright.He can play the honky tonk like anything,Saving it up for Friday night.With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing.”
- “Lady writer on the TVShe had all the brains and the beauty.The picture does not fitYou talked to me when you felt like it.Just the way that her hair fell down around her faceThen I recall my fall from graceAnother time, another place.”
- “Getting crazy on the Waltzers, but it's the life that I choose.Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo.And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam,And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am.”
- “A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade;Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made.Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shadeHe says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"”
- “She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll stationAnd a rock n roll dream.She's making movies on location.She don't know what it means.But the music make her wanna be the story.And the story was whatever was the song, what it was.Rollergirl don't worry.D.J. plays the movies all night long.”
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Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is one of the two members who stayed throughout the band's existence, along with the bassist John Illsley. After Dire Straits dissolved, he pursued a solo career and is now an independent artist.
Knopfler was born in Glasgow, and was raised in Newcastle. 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. The band recorded six albums, including Brothers in Arms (1985), one of the best-selling albums in history. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler began a solo career, and has produced ten solo albums to date. 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). He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman.