The song Mark Knopfler called a “two minute take on a two ton book”
Inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel.
Mark Knopfler
The album Mark Knopfler didn’t want to be paid for: “I was just happy to be asked”
Knopfler was happy to end the project without earning a penny.
How BB King became a “turning point” of Mark Knopfler’s career
“Struck with the relationship between the guitar and the voice”.
The only reason Mark Knopfler survived the rigours of rock ‘n’ roll: “I’d have been dead”
“That means everything.”