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Dire Straits- Making Movies- Mark Knopfler
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".
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.