Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBEis a British singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth12 August 1949
CityGlasgow, Scotland
song stars love-you
Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die". There's a place for us, you know the movie song. When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
american-music
I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
ovation legends
I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.
song swings guitar
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.
play guitar bass
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.
years scotland firsts
Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.
song guitar practice
I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.
hangover drinking night
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.
song real school
I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.
guitar desire collectors
I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
world different different-worlds
There's so many different worlds...
music vehicle
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
british-musician good vehicle
After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.
club hour theater
We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.