Mark Knopfler OBE (Glasgow, August 12, 1949) is a Scottish singer and guitarist. He was best known as the frontman of the British rock band Dire Straits.
His famous guitar playing seems to be a cross between the trippy sound of The Shadows Hank Marvin 's and the fingerpickingspel of J.J. Cale. The low nose voice of Knopfler evokes memories of Bob Dylan and J.J. Cale.
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Biography[Edit][]
Dire Straits[Edit][]
Immediately achieved great success with Dire Straits Dire Straitstheir debut album. This includes the well-known "Sultans of Swing", giving them their first record contract brought in 1977 . In 1985 Brothers in Armsappeared, one of the first fully digitally recorded plates. The album is with 269 weeks in the Dutch Album Top 100 listed the longest album of all time.
In addition to his work with Dire Straits, Knopfler soundtracks and later also a number of solo albums. In addition, he is a much sought-after session and studio musician.He also wrote songs for other artists including Tina Turner Private Dancer "for" and "I Think I Love You Too Much" for the blind blues guitarist Jeff Healey. He worked on the albums Slow Train Coming and Bob Dylan 's Infidels and acted as producer for Willy Deville, Aztec Camera and Randy Newman. Along with Chet Atkins , he released a number of albums including Neck and Neck.
Solo[Edit][]
In 1990, he played in the country band "The Notting Hillbillies". His manner of guitar playing came recurs in the country-the band's sound. The band was founded by Mark Knopfler, they take an album on "Missing presumed having a good time....". After a series of performances, all band members on their main acts, only for special occasions they performed was still on.
His first solo album was called Golden Heart and came out in 1996.
In 2000 Sailing to Philadelphia appeared whose title track earned him a minor hit in various countries.
In 2001, a dinosaur named after him, because paleontologists happen to "Money for Nothing" on when they had the fossil Masiakasaurus knopfleri found:.
In 2003 he was hit on his motorcycle in which Knopfler by seven ribs, his shoulder blade and broke his collarbone. He had to discontinue its work seven months long. His promotional tour for his third album blew it off. He made a full recovery from his injury.
After the duet album All The Roadrunning (2006) with Emmylou Harris , Knopfler a fifth solo album on september 14, 2007. The successor of Shangri-La was given the name Kill To Get Crimson and contains twelve tracks. To promote this album trad Knopfler on 29 and 30 March 2008 and 31 March 2008 on in Netherlands in theHeineken Music Hall in Amsterdam and Ahoy in Rotterdam.
He owns the British Grove Studios in WestLondon.
Get LuckyIn 2009. This is his sixth solo album. For the shooting drew the front man of Dire Straits back in his own British Grove Studios in London, which is the same year the Music Producers Guild Award for ' Best Studio ' got. Get Lucky has 11 tracks and is exploring his musical roots.
In the spring and summer of 2010, he worked on a world tour consisting of nearly 90 shows in North America and Europe. He played mainly material from his solo career, but also some Dire Straits numbers, and played that year three days in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.
On 31 August 2012 Privateeringappeared, the seventh solo album by Knopfler.
Knopfler played electric guitar on the song What's Broken by David Crosby, that on the album issued in January 2014 Croz State.
Discography[Edit][]
- See also discography Dire Straits.
- See also discography The Notting Hillbillies.
Albums[Edit][]
| Album (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Album Top 100 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local hero | 1983 | 16-04-1983 | 19 | 8 | Soundtrack |
| Cal | 1984 | 03-11-1984 | 28 | 8 | Soundtrack |
| The princess bride | 1987 | - | Soundtrack | ||
| Last exit to Brooklyn | 1989 | - | Soundtrack | ||
| Neck and Neck | 1990 | 19-01-1991 | 12 | 21 | with Chet Atkins |
| The best of Mark Knopfler-Screenplaying | 08-11-1993 | 27-11-1993 | 15 | 15 | Compilation album |
| Golden heart | 23-03-1996 | 06-04-1996 | 4 | 28 | |
| Wag the dog | 19-01-1998 | 21-02-1998 | 73 | 3 | Soundtrack |
| Metroland | 1998 | - | Soundtrack | ||
| Sailing to Philadelphia | 25-09-2000 | 07-10-2000 | 2 | 56 | |
| A shot at glory | 2001 | - | Soundtrack | ||
| The ragpicker's dream | 30-09-2002 | 12-10-2002 | 2 | 21 | |
| Shangri-la | 24-09-2004 | 25-09-2004 | 4 | 21 | |
| The trawlerman's song | 2005 | - | ep | ||
| One take radio sessions | 2005 | - | ep | ||
| The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations | 04-11-2005 | 12-11-2005 | 23 | 29 | Compilation album |
| All the roadrunning | 21-04-2006 | 24-04-2006 | 3 | 31 | with Emmylou Harris |
| Kill to get crimson | 14-09-2007 | 15-09-2007 | 4 | 21 | |
| Get lucky | 14-09-2009 | 19-09-2009 | 3 | 22 | |
| Privateering | 31-08-2012 | 08-09-2012 | 1 (1wk) | 26 |
| Album (s) with chart positions in
the Flemish Ultratop 200 albums |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden heart | 1996 | 06-04-1996 | 10 | 16 | |
| Sailing to Philadelphia | 2000 | 07-10-2000 | 4 | 17 | |
| The ragpicker's dream | 2002 | 12-10-2002 | 6 | 6 | |
| Shangri-la | 2004 | 02-10-2004 | 9 | 18 | |
| The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations | 2005 | 19-11-2005 | 14 | 27 | Compilation album |
| All the roadrunning | 2006 | 29-04-2006 | 5 | 20 | with Emmylou Harris |
| Kill to get crimson | 2007 | 22-09-2007 | 11 | 15 | |
| Get lucky | 2009 | 19-09-2009 | 12 | 10 | |
| Privateering | 2012 | 08-09-2012 | 2 | 29 |
Singles[Edit][]
| Single (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Top 40 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Going home (Theme from local hero) | 1983 | 26-03-1983 | 20 | 5 | No. 26 in the Single Top 100 |
| Storybook love | 1988 | 26-03-1988 | tip16 | - | with Willy Deville /
No. 77 in the Single Top 100 |
| What it is | 18-09-2000 | - | No. 38 in the Single Top 100 | ||
| Sailing to Philadelphia | 26-02-2001 | - | No. 73 in the Single Top 100 | ||
| Why aye man | 16-09-2002 | - | No. 45 in the Single Top 100 | ||
| Boom, like that | 13-09-2004 | - | No. 30 in the Single Top 100 |
| Single (s) with chart positions
in the Flemish Ultratop 50 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | 2000 | 16-09-2000 | tip11 | - | |
| True love will never fade | 24-09-2007 | - | No. 22 in the Radio 2 Top 30 | ||
| Redbud tree | 09-07-2012 | 08-09-2012 | tip57 | - |
Radio 2 Top 2000[Edit][]
| Number (s) with markings
in the Radio 2 Top 2000 |
' 99 | ' 00 | ' 01 | ' 02 | ' 03 | ' 04 | ' 05 | ' 06 | ' 07 | ' 08 | ' 09 | ' 10 | ' 11 | ' 12 | ' 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | - | 545 | - | 340 | 455 | 762 | 653 | 836 | 950 | 724 | 708 | 697 | 541 | 417 | 400 |
| Sailing to Philadelphia | - | - | - | - | 942 | 427 | 367 | 405 | 515 | 513 | 458 | 393 | 479 | 670 | 582 |
DVDs[Edit][]
| DVDs with the Dutch Music charts in the Top 30 | Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A night in London | 2004 | 08-05-2004 | 8 | 11 | |
| Real live roadrunning | 2006 | 25-11-2006 | 7 | 23 | with Emmylou Harris |
| Let it all go-Live in 2007 Switzerland | 2013 | 08-06-2013 | 24 | 3 |