Geburtstag: Mark Knopfler will write songs on the stage

As Frontman of the Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler is a world star. But the Ruhm wurde ihm zu fell. A solo career began. Von der Bühne will be the guitarist and singer. There would be 75 years of alt.

Mark Knopfler’s musical style is uncomplicated: more striking, better guitar sound and a warm, powerful baritone voice. I know a man who had the most fun – he is a world of «Lady Writer» or «Brothers In Arms» who handles the band Dire Straits or a number from his young solo album «One Deep River».

Born in Glasgow, excavation is in Grossraum Newcastle. Before Mark Knopfler joined the service, he got into trouble and was arrested.

Studio as a living location

The most beautiful is Knopfler in his own Studio. In the West of London, in the city of Chiswick, I find the British Grove Studios. In one of the other parts of the Seitenstrasse Chris de Burgh, Ronan Keating, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones in the United States went to work. And Knopfler.

British Grove is a ‘happy place’, and also a Wohlfühlort, said the music in the interview with the German press. There are more and more and modern devices, small and coarser instruments and many instruments. «Wohlfühlort» gilded especially, when he works with his band on new music. His view works and is musical, while we play our music and our studio, wonderful in August.

“I sit there and the band sits there on the sofa”, says enthusiastically. “When I play a song, and when I play it, Glenn Worf writes down the notes.” The renowned bassist plays with Knopfler, plays on his album and listens to the live band’s concerts.

In closing, Knopfler lets his musician do it easily. “My method is that a band of that caliber is not capable of growing,” he explains. There is a later remark. “You have to do a number of things that are effective. That is true, when a man works as a director with two or three great works of art. Who wants to be more? You can’t get in the way.” The bandleader is a team player.

It’s likely the Dire Straits frontman’s first foray. «I am glad, I have a solid gel, with good music to be trusted.»

Welterfollow with the Dire Straits

With Dire Straits Knopfler could work for years in the 70s. Gemeinsam with his Bruder David hated the band in 1977. The debut album with the hit single «Sultans Of Swing» appeared in 1978 in a larger edition. Knopflers praise Fingerstyle-Technik and the intelligent, often poetic music lyrics.

The studio album «Brothers In Arms» was released in Dire Straits 1985 and ended with Weltstars. There are 30 million sold examples of the successful music history. Songs with «Money For Nothing» or «Walk Of Life» are regularly heard on the radio. Knopfler did not agree. «No, it was like every other album», says that there is a lot of.

Knopflers rotes Stirnoder Schweissband wurde seinerzeit zu seinem optische Markenzeichen. If it is good, it is now no longer possible to become, if it is not true, there is laughter. ‘No, it went nur um den Schweiss. Damals were so scheinwerfer, said it was fun. «I have literweise geschwitzt. If the new Scheinwerfer came, I would brauchte das nicht more.»

The Dire Straits play major tours, fill stadiums, play the legendary Live Aid and his concert for Nelson Mandela. For Mark Knopfler’s Geschmack everything was a Nummer zu gross. “I wouldn’t be able to do that,” said the Briton, the leader of the disaster. «Wir wollen gar nicht in Stadien auftreten. That is the end of the matter, that is all.”

Dasein as pop star is in «Money For Nothing» lustful power, but the family man is no longer bothered. “There is a crude art, we will have the great power, that is what the studio of the studio does”, says Knopfler. «Ruhm is only an Abfallprodukt.» 1995 the Gruppe lost.

Solo career and private life

A year ago the first solo album «Golden Heart» was released. In his music, which is still Ruhe and Entspanntheit Australisch, Mark Knopfler lies in Rock’n’Roll, Folk, Country, Americana and other styles.

Sein zehntes und actuellstes Solo album, «One Deep River», erschien nachsjähriger Pause. Darauf sings about the Fluss Tyne and the other Heimat Newcastle, which still does not lie in Herzen. Prive lebt der vierfache Vater mit seiner drifted Frau alldings schon lange in London.

Maybe his fans won’t be waiting for new music for a long time. When ‘One Deep River’ gave the band more songs, after the album was over. “I have a standard idea,” says Knopfler. “We don’t want to release another EP. I know not, because the people have produced many EPs today. It’s a four-track record with its own thematic focus.”

Das Songwriting is more important in German than the Auftreten. During the 2019 Tour, the war started in the Zürcher Hallenstadion. The urge, on the stage zurückzukehren, spürt der Gitarrist and Sänger nicht. If you have the Frage, you want and see who has become a Konzerte, winkt er ab. “I’m glaube nicht,” said Mark Knopfler with a light Schmunzeln. «I am zu alt.»

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