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Mark Knopfler- Once Upon a Time in the West- Dallas 9-8-19

To herald the upcoming forty-fifth anniversary of that all-important first Dire Straits album, here is a tasty live performance in Dallas/Ft. Worth of a song from the same era, "Once Upon a Time in the West", which would surface on the second Dire Straits album, Communique.

Dire Straits- Communique- Mark Knopfler

Dire Straits under-rated second release “Communique” with Mark Knopfler

Dire Straits- Best pt 1- Mark Knopfler

Like David Bowie did five years before and Sting would repeat five years later, Dire Straits' October 1980 third release "Making Movies"  is Mark Knopfler's unabashedly "Big Apple" album through the eyes of an Englishman in New York who had grown up an ocean away on Hemingway, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan.