rock legends: mark knopfler

Mark KnopflerWhat Makes Him a Rock Legend

By Andrea Cavallucci 2015

His eternal songs

Brothers in Arms

Telegraph Road

Private InvestigationGoing Home

Rudiger

Why Aye Man

Tunnel of Love

Once Upon a

Time in the West

Sultans of Swing

Get

Lucky

Hill Farmer’s Blues

BluebirdThe Long Highway

Are We in

Trouble Now

Basil

Lights of TaorminaRiver Towns

His amazing solos and melodies

His technique

No matter which guitar he plays, the sound can’t be mistaken. It’s his

A unique fingerstyle

Picks and strums played at the same time

The unique sound of his

guitars

With the National style “O” memorable songs like “Romeo & Juliet"

His unmistakable Stratocaster sound

Thanks to his fingerstyle technique the Gibson Les Paul too has a distinct sound

His VoiceNot a very powerful voice, but very deep and melodic. A voice that reaches your soul.

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"Haul Away"

It was a windless night when you left the ship You never were a steady bold one

I gave my hand, ah, but you did slip I'm a living man and you're a cold one

Haul away, haul away for home

My love's as fair as a girl can be My wedding ring is a heavy gold one

Now you lie alone in the deep dark sea I'm a living man and you're a cold one

Haul away, haul away for home

The morning brings, Lord, a fresh young breeze To fill our sails and end the doldrums Our lucky ship speeds across the sea

I'm a living man and you're a cold one Haul away, haul away for home

“There's so many different worlds

So many different suns

And we have just one world But we live in different ones”

From “Brothers in Arms”

His lyrics





The themes of his songs

They had a last supper the day of the beaching She's a dead ship sailing skeleton crew

The galley is empty, the stove pots are cooling With what's left of the stew

The time is approaching, the captain moves over The hangman steps in to do what he's paid for

With the wind down the tide She goes proud ahead steaming

And he drives her hard into the shore

From “So Far From The Clyde”





Privateering

Haul Away

Piper to the End

So Far From the

Clyde

Sons of Scotland

His Celtic melodies

Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and

Smokes





Rock

Country

Blues

Folk

The colors of his music

Mark Knopfler

Side 145 rpm

Going Home:

Theme of the Local Hero





His albums (solo)

199620002002

200420052007

200920122015





His albums (Dire Straits)

197819791980

198219841985

198819911993

1995

1998

2005





His soundtracks

2002 1999 1998

1993 1989 1987

1984 1984 1983

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Bap Kennedy

Chet Atkins Emmy Lou Harris

Bo Walton Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan



Jimmy NailEric Clapton Eric Clapton

Tina TurnerRandy NewmanThe Notting Hillbillies



Van Morrison Willy DeVille

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