Mark Knopfler - Interview Sky News 2009-11-15

[callerz1]

He's an idol of mine and I learned to play 27 years ago coz of Mark. I was super lucky once and got to work in his house when he lived in Nottinghill.......He was in Australia though !! Damn. never gonna meet him now

[insomniac5150]

Mark is awesome, the interviewer is a political guy, doesn't know who the hell he's talking to. what a wasted opportunity, twat.

[fIRsTRATmAN]

Man I'd love to bump into Mark on the train, meeting him is a dream. I hope I get lucky some day.

[Maudit1972]

Dogswede thank you very much indeed for the transcription!!! :D It was very kind of you... Andrea from Italy.

[MrIanbrooks]

Why try and pressure Mark into stupid journalistic questions? Do you really think you are gonna get a rise out of a man that has written the music he has? Why bother? What a prick!!!!

[Panzon300]

Thanks, Swede...We get nothing on MK in the US...Just garbage: (Lady GaGa...Black Eyed Peas....Pink.....Li' Wayne...(Rolling Stone hasn't even reviewed "Get Lucky" yet! The world needs more like Mark Knopfler, that's certain. Keep 'em comin' brother!

[radkid06]

Well said. I agree whole heartedly.

[BluesPickerGuitar]

Can someone explain me what he means easily ? (I'm French and He talks too fast for me).

Thanks all.

[DogSwede1]

Do you want to know about the complete interview or just a part of it? :)

[BluesPickerGuitar]

Thanks for answer.

I'll be glad to know what he means in the whole interview if you have a little time.

Thank you.

[DogSwede1]

Here you have,, I couldn't understand a few words.

AB: To me sort of rock 'n' roll means kind of 'peace not war', and was it a big step to for you to get so involved with the British Legion?

MK: Not really Adam, because there has been a bit of a history of that with me with "Brothers in Arms" and with the Falklands campaign as well, and I just think the whole issue of treatment of veterans has been in the news for a while now and maybe that could have even been a factor and lead me to write ->

[DogSwede1]

-> "Remembrance Day" in the first place.

AB: I mean.. rising and supporting the British legion, does that in the end mean you supporting the army in whatever they being asked to do.

MK: Well, you don't necessarily have to equate, you know, the invasion of Iraq with the mission in Afghanistan, that two entirely seperate things and you can have seperate opinions about them.

AB: So what is your opinion; That you're against Iraq and support Afghanistan?

[DogSwede1]

MK: Well, broadly speaking, that's correct yeah.

AB: You've also written a song about the, ? 1940, about your grandfather, is it?

MK: It was uncle Freddie, actually. My mother's brother who was killed in France in the age of 20. He was a piper in the ? Scottish ? allied with the Black Watch, and.. I've always ment to try writing something and it took years, and just somehow with this album it seem to eventually, it seem to come together. And it just connects somehow with "Remembrance Day", ->

[DogSwede1]

so I sort of put them together as a, into, as a single for the legion.

AB: A lot of nostalgia from your earlier life in Glasgow and Tyne-side, isn't it in "Get Lucky"?

MK: That's right.

AB: Now you're in Chelsea, when do you go home?

[DogSwede1]

MK: I do go home, I do go home as much as possible. I've started taking the train up quite a bit. I think it's a special feeling coming from Tyne-side. In fact, on the first Dire Straits album I was writing about crossing the River Tyne every single time, you get the same old feeling. And in fact, it connects with that first album quite a bit, because even the first song on the first song on the first Dire Straits record was "Down to the Waterline", ->

[DogSwede1]

-> I was imitating the foghorns and talking about being on the Tyne.

AB: Mark Knopfler, thank you very much indeed.

MK: Thank you.

[demonstrator4freedom]

why is he pro-afghan war? That was a shock to me.

[TomMarvan]

DogSwede, another great find, you are truly one of the best MK archivists!

[diabuuu]

always nice to see him!

[DogSwede1]

He always sounds so intelligent

[diabuuu]

true that.

[dergrossen]

That's cause he is!  Please note too that he is HUMBLE! Also note that he is GENEROUS and KIND HEARTED!

[prompen3]

Short, but great as always..