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Few albums from the Eighties have been so popular or aged as well as Brothers in Arms, the fifth studio album from London’s Dire Straits. Released in May 1985, Brothers in Arms contained the songs of Mark Knopfler, performed expertly and produced impeccably, which proved irresistible to an international buying audience estimated at over thirty million. Mark […]
Dire Straits’ under-rated second release “Communique” with my interview with Mark Knopfler In the Studio.
As Mark Knopfler continues to make new music such as “Deep River”, we are thrilled to have him as our guest here In the Studio to share the Dire Straits story of how it all started.
In 1980 for their third album “Making Movies”, Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits’ easily least melancholy, most upbeat batch of songs, Mark Knopfler joins me here In the Studio for the tales behind “Expresso Love”,”Skateaway” “Solid Rock”, the epic “Tunnel of Love”, and “Romeo and Juliet”.
“It’s like someone pulling at a thread, unraveling your sweater, except the sweater is you, ” former Dire Straits bandleader Mark Knopfler tries to explain the phenomenon of “Brothers in Arms” and modern super-celebrity here In the Studio in this classic rock interview. “I recommend success to anybody. I can’t think of anything good about fame. If you can, let me know.”
When the song “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits became a worldwide hit in Summer 1985, the album Brothers in Arms spent a stunning nine weeks as the #1-seller in the US in 1985, eventually selling a staggering 26,000,000 copies worldwide. This kind of celebrity could not have happened to a more reluctant rock star than Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler, and trust me, there is absolutely no way to prepare for what comes next.
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.
To herald the upcoming forty-fifth anniversary of the sublime but overlooked second Dire Straits album, here is a tasty live performance by Mark Knopfler in Dallas/Ft. Worth of a song from it, “Once Upon a Time in the West”, which would surface on the second Dire Straits album, “Communique”.
Tears for Fears “Songs from the Big Chair” 40th anniversary In the Studio with Redbeard & guest Curt Smith
Mark Knopfler live in suburban Dallas/Ft.Worth 2019 performing “Romeo and Juliet”