Rock Legends: Mark Knopfler
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A personal tribute to my favourite musician: Mark Knopfler.
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Rock Legends: Mark Knopfler
- 1. Mark Knopfler What Makes Him a Rock Legend By Andrea Cavallucci 2015
- 2. His eternal songs Brothers in Arms Telegraph Road Private InvestigationGoing Home Rudiger Why Aye Man Tunnel of Love Once Upon a Time in the West Sultans of Swing Get Lucky Hill Farmer’s Blues BluebirdThe Long Highway Are We in Trouble Now Basil Lights of TaorminaRiver Towns
- 4. His technique No matter which guitar he plays, the sound can’t be mistaken. It’s his A unique fingerstyle Picks and strums played at the same time
- 5. The unique sound of his guitars With the National style “O” memorable songs like “Romeo & Juliet" His unmistakable Stratocaster sound Thanks to his fingerstyle technique the Gibson Les Paul too has a distinct sound
- 6. His Voice Not a very powerful voice, but very deep and melodic. A voice that reaches your soul.
- 7. http://www.google.it/imgres? imgurl=http:// files.sharenator.com/ Skye_Scotland- s1280x853-359108.jpg&imgr efurl=http://wallpaper- kid.com/celtic-landscape- wallpaper.htm&h=853&w=12 80&tbnid=uUXb6SYDzniL1M :&zoom=1&docid=rYLiP18b 30vO7M&ei=_VjrVN6uJYrtUti Ag9AF&tbm=isch&client=sa fari&ved=0CCkQMygKMAo "Haul Away" It was a windless night when you left the ship You never were a steady bold one I gave my hand, ah, but you did slip I'm a living man and you're a cold one Haul away, haul away for home My love's as fair as a girl can be My wedding ring is a heavy gold one Now you lie alone in the deep dark sea I'm a living man and you're a cold one Haul away, haul away for home The morning brings, Lord, a fresh young breeze To fill our sails and end the doldrums Our lucky ship speeds across the sea I'm a living man and you're a cold one Haul away, haul away for home “There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones” From “Brothers in Arms” His lyrics
- 8. http://www.google.it/imgres? imgurl=http:// files.sharenator.com/ Skye_Scotland- s1280x853-359108.jpg&imgr efurl=http://wallpaper- kid.com/celtic-landscape- wallpaper.htm&h=853&w=12 80&tbnid=uUXb6SYDzniL1M :&zoom=1&docid=rYLiP18b 30vO7M&ei=_VjrVN6uJYrtUti Ag9AF&tbm=isch&client=sa fari&ved=0CCkQMygKMAo The themes of his songs They had a last supper the day of the beaching She's a dead ship sailing skeleton crew The galley is empty, the stove pots are cooling With what's left of the stew The time is approaching, the captain moves over The hangman steps in to do what he's paid for With the wind down the tide She goes proud ahead steaming And he drives her hard into the shore From “So Far From The Clyde”
- 9. http://www.google.it/imgres? imgurl=http:// files.sharenator.com/ Skye_Scotland- s1280x853-359108.jpg&imgr efurl=http://wallpaper- kid.com/celtic-landscape- wallpaper.htm&h=853&w=12 80&tbnid=uUXb6SYDzniL1M :&zoom=1&docid=rYLiP18b 30vO7M&ei=_VjrVN6uJYrtUti Ag9AF&tbm=isch&client=sa fari&ved=0CCkQMygKMAo Privateering Haul Away Piper to the End So Far From the Clyde Sons of Scotland His Celtic melodies Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes
- 10. http://www.google.it/imgres? imgurl=http:// files.sharenator.com/ Skye_Scotland- s1280x853-359108.jpg&imgr efurl=http://wallpaper- kid.com/celtic-landscape- wallpaper.htm&h=853&w=12 80&tbnid=uUXb6SYDzniL1M :&zoom=1&docid=rYLiP18b 30vO7M&ei=_VjrVN6uJYrtUti Ag9AF&tbm=isch&client=sa fari&ved=0CCkQMygKMAo Rock Country Blues Folk The colors of his music Mark Knopfler Side 145 rpm Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero
- 14. http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://files.sharenator.com/Skye_Scotland- s1280x853-359108.jpg&imgrefurl=http://wallpaper-kid.com/celtic-landscape- wallpaper.htm&h=853&w=1280&tbnid=uUXb6SYDzniL1M:&zoom=1&docid=rYLiP18b30vO7M His many collaborations Bap Kennedy Chet Atkins Emmy Lou Harris Bo Walton Bob Dylan Bob Dylan
- 15. http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://files.sharenator.com/Skye_Scotland- s1280x853-359108.jpg&imgrefurl=http://wallpaper-kid.com/celtic-landscape- wallpaper.htm&h=853&w=1280&tbnid=uUXb6SYDzniL1M:&zoom=1&docid=rYLiP18b30vO7M His many collaborations Jimmy NailEric Clapton Eric Clapton Tina TurnerRandy NewmanThe Notting Hillbillies