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David Knopfler (born 27 December 1952) is a Scottish musician. Together with his older brother Mark Knopfler, John Illsley, and Pick Withers, he founded the rock band Dire Straits in 1977, serving as rhythm guitarist on their first two albums. After quitting the band in 1980 during the recording of their third album, Knopfler embarked upon a ...
Knopfler explained that the latter was an experimental song and was unsure if they should record it on a following record. [96] The song, a blues rock track with solos by Knopfler and Clapton, also appeared on the 1990 album Hell To Pay as a gift [97] to Canadian blues/jazz artist Jeff Healey from Knopfler. This was prior to the time that ...
Anthology: 1983–2008 is a compilation album by David Knopfler. It was released on 10 March 2009. It was released on 10 March 2009. The compilation consists of 16 tracks from his 10 solo albums.
The album was released in the US on 20 October 1978. [6] The first single released was "Sultans of Swing" which first broke into the United States top five early in the spring of 1979, becoming a hit a full five months after the album was released there, and then reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart.
“A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Remix]”: David Guetta, remixer (Shaboozey & David Guetta) ... Mark Knopfler, songwriter (Mark Knopfler) ... To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of ...
Following another hiatus, Dire Straits' final album Live at the BBC (released in 1995) was a contractual release featuring live recordings from 1978 to 1981, with the original line-up of Mark and David Knopfler, Illsley and Pick Withers (Clark and Lindes also featured on one track). In 1995, Mark Knopfler disbanded Dire Straits for the second ...
Record Mirror named "Sultans of Swing" the tenth-best song of 1978. [23] In 1992, Life named it one of the top five songs of 1979. [24] In 1993, Paul Williams included it in his book Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles. [25] The song is on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, Dire Straits' only appearance. [26]
Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22–23 July 1983, the double album features songs from the band's first four albums (Dire Straits, Communiqué, Making Movies and Love Over Gold), the ExtendedancEPlay EP and Mark Knopfler's Local Hero soundtrack. Many of the songs have reworked arrangements and extended instrumental segments.