The focus of Dire Straits is on Mark Knopfler. Former Dire Straits leader, vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and producer Mark Knopfler starts a career as a solo artist. Mark is both singer and guitarist on this track and is backed by his Duolian Stringpickers partner Steve Phillips (guitar) and the Silverheels rhythm section, Dave Johnson (bass) and Paul Granger (drums). It is the first CD album to sell over a million copies and to outsell its vinyl counterpart. He owns a local pub, the 80), released in September. This album is co-produced by Jimmy Iovine and Dire Straits leader, Mark Knopfler. The role of Knopflers guitar work is acknowledged in the bands first logo: a Fender Stratocaster guitar with the words Dire Straits inscribed across it in cursive script. This tale of a sculptor who finds fame after his death raises some eyebrows: And now all the vultures are coming down from the trees / Hes gonna be / In the galla, galla, gallery. Reportedly, the song is inspired by Leeds sculptor Harry Phillips, the father of Steve Phillips the guitarist who was Mark Knopflers partner in the Duolian Stringpickers. His companions in this project are: Phil Palmer (guitar), Chris White (saxophone) and Steve Ferrone (drums). Introduced to lead singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler by Mark's brother, David Knopfler, Illsley was one of just two original band members remaining when it broke up in 1995. He attends Lawrence Weston Secondary School. He and his California-born wife, Laura, have two children, Max and Leon. Illsleys new book is a celebration of the bands achievements and of his enduring friendship with Mark Knopfler. When John Illsley was writing and demoing for his imminent eighth solo album, the last thing on his mind was to chronicle his remarkable past as a co-founder of one of the biggest bands in rock history. He was born on June 24, 1949 and his birthplace is England. Jack Sonni goes on to work for Line 6, a digital technology organisation for musicians. Two more songs are lifted from On Every Street as singles but only for European markets. Rockpile has a rather unusual existence, providing backing on solo albums by group leaders Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe. Together with the children from his first marriage, James (born in 1982) and Jessica (born in 1988), John Illsley is the father of four children. Guy Fletcher takes on this role in 1984. Former Dire Straits keyboardist and guitarist Guy Fletcher tours with former Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry in 1996. The title track, Brothers In Arms (UK no. 45, AUS no. Only one album is actually credited to Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure (1980) (UK no. From 2000 to 2007 Terry Williams runs a blues club in Swansea, Wales. The third Dire Straits album, Making Movies (1980) (UK no. When he is 14, Sonni switches to guitar. Theres not an accent on the music, theres an accent on popularity. Its great to realise your still touching people in all four corners of the world.. But first John, who used to own a driving range in Borehamwood, so knows Watford well, is keen to share the music from Testing the Water, which he worked on with Mark and Straits keyboardist Guy Fletcher as well as some old classics such as Romeo and Juliet. Both Love Over Gold and the closing track, It Never Rains, give free rein to Alan Clarks delicate piano work though It Never Rains expands into something more elaborate in musical terms. Their first live performance was at a 1977 punk festival, held outside their flat, on the Farrer House lawn we were the odd onesout, laughs John, themisfits, doing our own thing! They used local band Squeezes PA, and their flat as the dressing room. 16, AUS no. 38, AUS no. In addition to those musicians already mentioned, other guest musicians on Brothers In Arms include Chris White (saxophone) [who will soon come to join the group], Randy Brecker (trumpet), Neil Jason (bass) and Tony Levin (bass). Chuck Berry made a huge impression, adds Mark, referring to the 1950s rock performer who combined singing, twangy guitar parts and songwriting. Mark Knopfler and John Illsley are the only people who are in every Dire Straits line-up. An additional live EP, Encores (UK no. John is originated from England. Although this is not the first time Mark Knopfler has written in the voice of a different persona (e.g. Other acts to whom Alan Clark lends his services include Splinter, Gallagher & Lyle and Lindisfarne. Other guests include Phil Palmer (guitar) [the nephew of Ray & Dave Davies of U.K. rock band The Kinks], Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar) [from The Notting Hillbillies] and Danny Cummings (percussion). My Life in Dire Straitsby John Illsley (Bantam Press) is out now. David adds, He was actually rather humble at that point[Bassist ] John Illsley and I pretty much dragged him to the altar all the way. It is hard to conjure a less likely rock star than [Mark] Knopfler, [who is] balding and outwardly taciturn., As well as being the frontman of Dire Straits, the bands lead vocalist and lead guitarist, Mark Knopfler writes almost every song the group records. Change). Name: John Edward Illsley. 12, AUS no. 1) is the fourth Dire Straits album. It is released on 20 September. It got very edgy. The bassist explained that Knopfler was The recordings here come from the On Every Street tour, specifically shows at Les Arenas, Nimes, France, in May 1992 and Feijenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, also in May 1992. Although Mark had petitioned for a Fender Stratocaster like Hank B. Marvins instrument, that is a bit beyond the familys budget at the time so he has to content himself with a Hofner Super Solid guitar bought for him by his father. Fender Stratocaster guitar) in 1977, the whole thing changed, though the lyrics remained the same. It is not clear exactly when John Illsleys marriage to his first wife, Pauline, ended but it was probably sometime around 1988. In September 1988 Mark Knopfler announces the dissolution of Dire Straits. Instead, an animated version of a large, brutish workman mouths Knopflers lyrics while his skinny offsider lip synchs Stings harmonies. 69); All The Roadrunning (2006) (UK no. Knopfler explains, The lead character in Money For Nothing is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television / custom kitchen / refrigerator / microwave appliance store. The Honky Tonk Demos, released as an EP on 18 April 2015, is the clutch of songs disc jockey Charlie Gillett first heard from Dire Straits. At some point, Guy Fletcher also marries. Dire Straits play five songs including a cover version of the 1964 Chuck Berry song Nadine. His last proper job was as trainee manager at a timber yard in Erith, Kent. As the song nears its climax, it sounds like Knopfler is borrowing from Bruce Springsteen (whose keyboardist Roy Bittan appeared on Making Movies) for lines like these: But believe in me baby and Ill take you away / From out of this darkness and into the day / From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain / From the anger that lives on these streets with these names / Cos Ive run every red light on memory lane / Ive seen desperation explode into flames / And I dont want to see it again The title track, Love Over Gold, suggests that art is more valuable than commerce. Mark and David both attend Gosforth Grammar School. Secondly, Money For Nothing is written in character. 1, AUS no. Knopflers songwriting was always as important as his guitar playing, so his focus was not so strongly on his instrument. In 2000 Mark Knopfler is awarded an O.B.E. Neither Sid McGinnis nor Roy Bittan becomes an official member of Dire Straits; they just play on the recording sessions for Making Movies. These are all comments on the work of guitarist Mark Knopfler of the British rock group Dire Straits. Unlike its predecessor, Comfort And Joy, Cal is a full-length album. Through this connection, Iovine obtains the services of pianist Roy Bittan from Bruce Springsteens backing group, The E-Street Band, to play on this album. With the tour concluded, drummer Chris Whitten resigns from Dire Straits in 1992, concluding his relatively short stint as a member of the group. The Dire Straits Fender guitar logo on the back cover is designed by Geoff Halpern. The three formed a band with Marks pal, drummer David Pick Withers. Comfort And Joy is a three song, twelve-inch EP issued on 27 July 1984. It may be just the shock of the new, that Sultans Of Swing is so unexpected, but it still stands as the highpoint of the groups output. In addition to being lead vocalist, his guitar playing is the groups most distinctive characteristic. Guy also learns to play both keyboards and guitar. 53) on 10 January 1983. He was a champion of up-and-coming bands, in a different way to John Peel, says John. Dire Straits On Location tour winds up on 6 July 1981 in Luxembourg. Jacks wife does not remain on the scene and so he raises the two girls as a single parent. Mark Knopfler also plays some gigs with a band called Silverheels. Local Hero is also the first solo album by Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler. Many years of medical treatments follow. Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler produces Bob Dylans album Infidels (1983) (US no. Session guitarist Elliott Randall (perhaps best known for playing on the 1972 Steely Dan song Reelin In The Years (US no. 8) is perhaps the closest thing to a ballad yet assayed by Dire Straits. Illsley fronted a Sky series called Guitar Heroes and appeared on Rick Steins Secret France, but like the rest of Dire Straits, he never courted celebrity. / Yeah, buddy, thats his own hair / That little faggots got his own jet airplane / That little faggot, hes a millionaire. Not every listener understands that Mark Knopfler is writing in the voice of an assumed character, so Money For Nothing gives rise to some controversy about homophobia. 10) which Sting wrote. The Dire Straits bassman reflects on the glory days of huge world tours and his latest solo album, Long Shadows, as well as giving us a look at a few choice pieces from his guitar collection. 47), is released on the same date as the album with songs that were also recorded in May 1992. 35) (on the Mercury label) is also available in one and two disc versions. Illsley splits his time between a home in Hampshire and southern France with his wife Stefanie and four children, including Harry, who is just starting out in music too. In 1977 we had no roadies, and Mark and I were humping bins [speaker cabinets] into the Hope & Anchor. The marriage of Dire Straits bassist John Illsley and his wife Pauline is described as being on [the] rocks in 1986 due to Johns relationship with Tracey Wallace, a former Penthouse magazine Pet of the Year. Whatever the stresses the couple may be experiencing, John and Pauline apparently reconcile sufficiently to have a second child together, their daughter Jessica (born in 1988). 5, US no. More directly, Romeo And Juliet is inspired by Mark Knopflers failed romance with Holly Beth Vincent of new wave band Holly And The Italians. Illsley, born in Leicester in the English midlands in 1949, reminisces in the book about his musical education and an early job with a timber firm, before a Sociology One night, he is stuck with performing with an old acoustic guitar with a badly warped neck and extra-light strings. Andy Canavan fills in on drums for a few gigs but, by the time Dire Straits embark on a world tour, Terry Williams is back on board. (It may be recalled that, in the mid-1970s, original Dire Straits drummer Pick Withers was the house drummer at Edmunds Rockfield Studio.) Dire Straits honed their craft playing the local Albany Empire and that same year recorded a five-track demo, including Sultans Of Swing, thanks to the 500 Johns grandmother left him in her will. Finally, Brewers Droop dissolves at the end of 1973. The music of Dire Straits is difficult to categorise. A second album, The Booze Brothers (1989), is recorded during 1973 but it is not issued until sixteen years later. 62) is rereleased as a single from this album and manages a modest showing on the U.K. singles chart. The demo recording is taken to MCA in Soho, but that record label rejects the group. 28); Wag The Dog (1998) [soundtrack]; Metroland (1999) [soundtrack]; Sailing To Philadelphia (2000) (UK no. That flat, in Farrer House on Deptfords run-down Crossfields estate, now sports a plaque saying, Dire Straits first gigged here, 1977. It is at a makeshift festival at the back of a council block in Deptford. In 1977 Pick Withers is briefly a member of folk rock act Magna Carta, a band fronted by Chris Simpson (vocals, guitar). The membership history of Man is long and complicated, with musicians leaving and returning again. Like almost all the bands recordings, this disc is issued on the Vertigo label. John marries his second wife, Stephanie, on 19 June 1999. The first and best single by Dire Straits is Sultans Of Swing (UK no. Porcaro is subsequently asked to tour with Dire Straits by declines due to his pre-existing commitments with the U.S. group Toto. He joins Dire Straits in 1985. After a while, though, the group just wasnt a good vehicle for the songs Id written, claims Mark Knopfler. Steve Ferrone was never in Dire Straits either; most recently he has been playing with U.S. rock band Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers.). Charlies music was kinder on the ears.. Jack Sonni is born John Thomas Sonni on 9 December 1954 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. It is known that, by 2011, Pick Withers is a widower. 9, US no. Bassist Malcolm Barrett leaves the band and is replaced by Derrick Timms. Although Mark is left-handed in all other ways, he plays guitar right-handed. 24), Slow Motion (1974), Maximum Darkness (1975) (UK no. 8, US no. 7, US no. We were what we were. 4, US no. This song was left off Love Over Gold but is reincarnated here with a lead vocal from U.K. singer Gerry Rafferty. John Illsley Personal Life, Relationships and Dating Illsley now lives in Hampshire, with his second wife Stephanie and his four children. Brothers In Arms has a more lavish production and overall sound than earlier Dire Straits albums. He tells Mark that the guitarist is harder to get hold of than Elvis. Heavy Fuel (UK no. Paul Franklin serves alongside Mark Knopfler in the 1990 Notting Hillbillies project before joining Dire Straits in 1991. In 2006, Sonni leaves corporate life behind and begins writing a personal memoir. Ive always worked since I was 14, says Mark Knopfler. Mark Knopfler wrote Sultans Of Swing after seeing a jazz band playing in the corner of a virtually deserted pub in Deptford, South London. Firstly, Money For Nothing (UK no. 66, AUS no. Brewers Droop (1971-1973) has a history before Mark Knopfler comes along. I wasconcerned about words. It has a steady rhythm framing the tale of a man who is High and dry in the long hot day / Lost and lonely every way. The guitar strains at the leash like it too wants the cool relief of Water Of Love. On the whole, Dire Straits second album continues to follow a similar vein to the first.. 1985s Brothers In Arms sold more than 30million copies worldwide. Lady Writer, the brooding News and the title track, Communique, all reflect Mark Knopflers past career as a journalist. And if I could have afforded the rent, I wouldnt have needed a flatmate who turned out to be Glasgow-born social worker and rhythm guitarist Dave Knopfler, a friend of a friend, who needed a place to live. Upcoming Birthday. 42), is downbeat and lovelorn though the pace picks up a bit in the final stretch after the vocals conclude on this piano-based tune. It is there in 1978 that Jack Sonni first meets Mark Knopfler when the visiting British guitarist looks over the shops wares. Inspired by the Beatles, he saved his pocket money for months to buy a Rosetti Lucky Seven guitar. Sultans Of Swing (UK no. Although Guy Fletcher is added to Dire Straits in 1984 as a second keyboardist, his talents as a guitarist and backing vocalist are also put to use by the band. Born John Edward Illsley on 24th June, 1949 in Leicester, England United Kingdom, he is famous for Dire Straits. Profil: Born on 24 June 1949, in Leicester, Illsley was the bass player for the British rock band Dire Straits. It was a moment of madness, he grins. He is the son of Erwin Knopfler and Louisa Mary Knopfler. Brothers in Arms, released in 1985, was the first album to sell a million copies in CD form and is the eighth bestselling album in UK history. Brothers In Arms (1985) (UK no. The group plays fifty-one dates in that country. Although future Dire Straits colleague Mark Knopfler also later works with Brewers Droop, Withers and Knopfler are not both in Brewers Droop at the same time. misfits, doing our own thing! They used local band Squeezes PA, and their flat as the dressing room. 22 Sultans Of Swing (Mark Knopfler) (21 October 2008) via 5 (above) [Sultans Of Swing song], Communique Sleeve notes by Mark Cooper (Vertigo/Mercury Records Ltd, 1996 reissue) p. 2, amarkintime.org posting by jbaent (3 August 2015) [how Mark Knopfler met Holly Vincent and Lourdes Salomone], Written in my Soul by Bill Flanagan (1986) Mark Knopfler interview via 5 (above) [Money For Nothing song] and members.tripod.com (The Interview of Interviews), Love Over Gold Sleeve notes by John Tobler (Vertigo/Mercury Records Ltd, 1996 reissue) p. 2, Sunday Mail (U.K. newspaper) Loud Rock Music Wrecked my Hearing, says Dire Straits StarNow iPod Generation is at Risk John Illsley interview conducted by Bonnie Estridge (26 July 2009) (reproduced on dailymail.co.uk), Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia, newspaper) No Money for Nothing in Move from Bass to Brush John Illsley interview conducted by Samantha Selinger-Morris (27 July 2005) (reproduced on smh.com.au), oneverybootleg.nl as at 9 August 2017 [format of Mark Knopflers Comfort And Joy soundtrack], reneejohnsonwrites.com Jack Sonni Rocker, Writer, Gentleman Chef interview conducted by Renee Johnson (15 April 2015), The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time Rolling Stone magazine (February 2004) p. 66, propertyobserver.com.au Dire Straits Guitarist John Illsley Lists Australian Bolthole as Point Piper Loses Some of its Pop by Jonathan Chancellor (31 January 2013), St Cloud Times (Saint Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A., newspaper) no author credited (27 October 1986) [Mark Knopfler race car crash], upi.com Rock Singer Hurt in Race Crash no author credited (25 October 1986) [Mark Knopfler race car crash], Rolling Stone (U.S. rock magazine) Mark Knopfler interview conducted by Rob Tannenbaum (September 1988) via 5 (above) [Dire Straits], direstraitsexperience.com as at 30 September 2014, revolvy.com David Knopfler References Buffalo News (Buffalo, New York, U.S.A., newspaper) David Knopfler Performs Sunday at Sportsmens Tavern by Dan Herbeck (1 May 2013), The Daily Telegraph (U.K. newspaper) John Illsley: Four Kids, Two Dogs, a Pub and a Guitar interview conducted by Anna Tyzack (30 June 2015) (reproduced on telegraph.co.uk), The Liverpool Echo (U.K. newspaper) Preview: Jade Wright on an Evening with Pick Withers at the Green Room Liverpool (5 January 2011) (reproduced on liverpoolecho.co.uk), i-d.vice.com Staz Lindes, the Tumblr-Superstar who Stole our Hearts in Moschino Staz Lindes interview conducted by Stuart Brumfitt (8 April 2014), cataloguemagazine.com.au Staz Lindes Discusses Music, Modelling and Body Image no author credited (2014) [confirms mother is Mary Lindes], instantcheckmate.com as at 15 August 2017 [Misha Lindes is 26], dazeddigital.com Introducing Saint Laurents New Indie Kid Muses re: Staz Lindes and Misha Lindes by Ted Stansfield (2016), hero-magazine.com Meet SadGirl, the L.A. Evangeline Lindes is a model and actress who appears in My Life in Venice Beach (2014), Bad Little Fairies (2016) and Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017). In My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History, bassist and founding member John Illsley goes behind the music with never-before-told stories tracing Dire Straits rise from the spit-and-sawdust pubs of London to the best-known venues and concerts in the world, and inside the studio recording some of the The best of these is the closing track, the triumphal Going Home.
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