The guitarist Mark Knopfler called “the greatest pedal steel player” ever
Unmatched talent.
Dire Straits
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.”
“He was really tremendous”: Mark Knopfler on the one guitarist who truly blew him away
A legend in every sense.
“A brutal dictatorship”: the feud that forced Dire Straits to quit at their peak
A problem for a lot of bands.