Mark Knopfler BBC Breakfast 9th April 2024

John and S okay Carol thank you thank you thanks the legendary guitarist and singer Mark noler has been making music for decades selling hundreds of millions of Records in the process and now the former D Straits frontman is back with a new album packed with his signature sounds and toet tapping Rifts we're going to have him here on the sofa in just a moment to chat but first let's just remind ourselves of some of the classics and here his latest offering with the Su with the I'm [Music] swing that's the way you do it you play the guitar on the MTV that ain't working that's the way do it Money for Nothing CH free people don't use get to play in there more than a time or twice you had you a regular spot they were even advertising name better than the usual thing you got staying just ahead of the game ahead of the [Music] game are you on uh we're on Mark join just checked Hi how are you hello nice to be back it's so lovely to have you back here nice to be in Manchester again I know I noticed when Carol was doing our weather you had a very close eye on the northeast looking very closely at your hometown yeah I know um I have a little weather app on my phone you know and I don't know whether you do but I use mine all the time yeah and there we are shining on you the British have always been interested in the weather haven't they yeah yeah and I think sometimes we always have one of the places that we love in our lives on that app even if we don't necessarily live there that's right you're still rooted musically in the Northeast as your latest work show yeah and I'll be wondering if it's raining in Whitley Bay you know yeah I will be um yeah well I suppose life it involves a few cities for me uh it began in Glasgow when I was a little fell listening to the radio on the floor and and because BBC had it had a thing called children's favorites on listen with mother and stuff like that and are you sitting comfortably was that yeah are you sitting comfortably well I am but well remembered yeah and are you sitting comfortably then I'll begin and yeah and and I I remember my mom telling me I used to listen really intently and I think it what I was listening to the words as much as the the the music you know because I can still sing all the words to to I mean if you take a song like the Big Rock Candy Mountain was actually was actually a hobo song but I didn't know what a hobo was I couldn't even walk but I liked it you know I like the music and I think that that I think that my love for song SS began there and it has carried on hasn't it through the decades and it's still there now with this latest work that you're sharing with us this morning that includes a reworking of perhaps one of your most famous pieces of music tell us about that oh well that was a lovely experience that was just for the teenage cancer trust and and to share with teen cancer in America as well which is an it was a nice sharing um and someone suggested that we do an instrumental version a new instrumental version of going home from the Local Hero music soundtrack and which we often used to finish the set with and um and then it just got bigger and bigger and bigger and I don't know I'm not sure uh how it happened but um I think Mike Reed might have had something to do with it there were some definitely some mischievous people behind it all but look at these names and hear the music I mean you're in the middle but surrounded by all these glamorous assistants they were all fantastic everybody who played on it was ridiculously good and and uh there was one after the other and I'd come in and Bruce Springstein would have sent sent a piece over from the state you know and it would be there was everybody would be on it it started Pete Townson came through the door because with teen cancer and teenage cancer you know the obviously Rog adultery has spent his life involved with it and Pete's been involved with it too so he came through with a guitar and an amp and started when when Pete townzen plays chords on your tune you you know it's they stay played and he's one of my favorite guitar players and then was Eric Clapton came in I think the next day and then there was David Gilmore and and they'd all played beautifully on the song one after another and and um I said to guy you know because guy is a trained recording engineer so I mean he's guy you work yeah guy Fletcher I'm sorry yeah had guy Fletcher from D Strait so we go Back 40 odd years working together me and gas said gas cuz that's why I call him gas I said gas this thing is going to be 20 mil long if we're not careful um and can you can you edit it and you know can you keep Ed can you and he and bless him you know he's a great editor and and he just kept working on it and he might have had to we might have had to double up some verses and but he did some great editing on it and we managed to fit I think everybody in and there was some inspired playing from people and even Joe Brown who uh you know I remember seeing outside Newcastle I remember seeing him in Newcastle City Hall when I was a little kid and just getting interested in rock and roll and Joe it was plays a beautiful mandolin section on the tune you know and he's still he's still exactly the same and as un believable that Joe hasn't CH I think music just keeps you young yeah yeah it's interesting you mentioned D straight obviously it's a huge part of your story and you guys still working together in different ways can I ask you the question that I know everybody asks you all the time is there any chance that you'd perform together as D trits again I don't think so uh just because there for a number of reasons uh one of them being is that I've built my own Studio which I really love being in and I haven't had a bad day in there and it's given me the chance to um to really push I mean this last album i' I've done far too many songs and um and I asked management about that and they said well that's good it's good to have these I mean if you wanted like one last even just one last show one last gig people would pay a fortune they'd be queuing around the country to get in not tempted though they could get you a job somewhere doubt that I'll take 10% come on let's do seriously though you I don't it we'd be useless no I don't think so um no it's always been be I've always loved I love D Straits and I love doing all that but what I wanted to do was just to expand and work with different players and have a bigger lineup you know the the last time I had the band in and that's the high point for me and you've got yeah I I would probably have had about six or seven guys in you know would be bigger than a little four piece that was stripped down than when we had it and that was great for and I loved it I had I had an absolute ball for as long as it lasted until it got so big that I didn't know the names of all the Ries it was just getting big like family uh it got so big we were actually leap frogging stages and that's what you have to do when it gets to a certain scale it's not the easiest thing but the the the new album um is well we talked about going home and that's going home in a way as well isn't it yeah that's that that the going home thing is it's like a circular a circular moment for me which music's given me a lot of um I should mention that Hank from the Shadows was also played on the cancer record the te teen cancer record and because often he'd come and join us on stage back as D straights early because the Shadows recorded it as well and that was always play he's a great player yes ank is a great player don't make no mistake about it and um but yeah well the whole thing has been lovely but yes what happened really with me in recently it's just like four buses coming along at once and it wasn't planned that the the teen cancer record happened with the album happened and then there was something else was me and Brian Johnson messing about on doing things on on film and and whatever else so it's been busy but it's kind of good to be busy course it certainly is thank you for letting us get on your busy bus it's great to have you here here fantastic thanks very much whose new album one Deep River will be released this Friday do

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Published: Tue Apr 09 2024