What was the first song to sell one million copies?
The tears of a clown.
Dire Straits
The song Mark Knopfler called a “two minute take on a two ton book”
Inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel.
How BB King became a “turning point” of Mark Knopfler’s career
“Struck with the relationship between the guitar and the voice”.
The best intro Mark Knopfler ever wrote was his simplest: “Then I can start to improvise”
Keep it simple, stupid.
The only reason Mark Knopfler survived the rigours of rock ‘n’ roll: “I’d have been dead”
“That means everything.”