Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler: A Musical Legend In The Studio! 🎸 

I love how MK always looks grumpy and then he surprises everyone with a smile.

Don't think this country has produced anyone better than Mark Knopfler he's an amazing singer/songwriter/musician, great in Dire Straits and now as a Solo artist. Absolutely love his solo records he tells such great stories with beautiful melodies and he is always so down to earth and interesting to listen to.

MK a national treasure, there aren’t many left

As an MK fan, I’ve heard all these anecdotes 100 times, but am always keen to hear them again. He’s a living legend and his latest album is magnificent.

The most humble genius. Love him

I got the first album on import in Australia, the best thing I had ever heard. But I couldn't understand how the radio stations hadn't picked it up, it took 6 months. Such a talented and good hearted man with his feet firmly planted on the ground. Thanks Mark.

Chris did a great job interviewing Mark here. First heard Dire Straits as a teen in the 80s and have loved Mark's music ever since. A brilliant tasteful and classy songwriter and musician. One of our best!

I think Chris is remembering a preview of Dire Straits tour in 1985 when they played in Israel. Paula Yates interviewed Mark as a special on the tube. They were on camels. Not actually playing in the desert, but they were there. I'm 59 and have been lucky enough to have lived through this guys career. Mark, you have enriched my life with your incredible music. I owe you such gratitude. And that Mandela 70th birthday gig at Wembley , my God, what a performance that was. If you haven't seen it, please do. Thanks, guys, and thank you Chris.

Mark on Alchemy Live, untouchable. Master songwriter and virtuoso guitarist.

We all get older, we all start to get slower, we all know that one we will have to stop, but we don't all get to be legends like Mark Knopfler and leave behind a legacy that will still be loved and listened too for longer than he ever made music.

Mark is such a nice guy ! my hero !

This is the best interview with MK I’ve seen, nice one Chris! I went to Christie’s for the auction preview 2 days before the sale, I found myself standing next to Mark, I still can’t believe it happened. His music, well, I don’t really have the words to describe what it means to me.

The world is a better place due to this fella, MK is a fine gentleman and one hell of a singer, songwriter and guitarist.

What a legend

I was hanging on every word, even after 45+ years as a fan.

My 27yr old son recently learnt to play Sultans of Swing, and has Telegraph Road on his 'Nostalgia' playlist as a result of me playing them in the car :) Telegraph Road is still my all time favourite track!

He certainly inspired me to learn guitar. Night after night, practising...trying to play along with his songs. You Sir, are indeed an inspiration. And arguably the greatest guitarist in history. No question.

Since I first heard the voice and guitar of Mark Knopfler at the age of sixteen, I began to dream day and night of looking him in the eye. I would stand in front of the poster pasted inside the door of my closet and, looking into his eyes, I would say "Mark are you going out? Come to me?" After 16 years, he entered my shop in Venice 💜 A fairy tale that has come true 🌹 From my book “I will Meet Mark K.”

Mark Knopfler golden heart❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤lots of love

The real number 1, legend ever.

It's always a pleasure to hear and see Mark Knopfler tell all his stories. I love it.

Love M.K. Dire Straits and have all his single albums.......but somehow his interviews are always interesting and fresh

What a great interview! The most relaxed and funny I've seen Mark in an interview in a long time. Really enjoyed it. Will be tuning in to more of these Virgin clips from now on. Well done Chris and team. BRILLIANT chat👍👍👍

Love Glen Campbell too...Jimmy Webb got his wish to meet him and then WOW even got to write songs for him and became very good friends!!❣️

Excellent interview, MK as humble as ever...what an Amazing talented musician

I am a fan of many different musicians who are quite excellent in their own ways. Knopfler has always been my favorite. Just got the total package right there. His songwriting is so vast and varied and his guitar playing...don't even get me started. No one plays guitar like Knopfler. If I ever meet him I don't want an autograph, I just want to say thank you.

Kudos to this interviewer! Very perceptive and Mark is obviously fully engaged in the conversation as are all of us!

❤❤❤ . Thanks for the briliant Dire Straits Mark , unbelievable Band

My guitar hero! Legend! I enjoyed that so much it flew by!! felt like 10 mins lol.... i could listen to Mark for hours on end, but at least when he is not doing interviews i have his music 🙂

Awesome interview - I can listen to MK for hours....thank you for such a great interview!!!

Don’t need to turn the volume up, this man is the greatest musician I have ever known. So many wonderful compositions, all telling a story often about his life experiences. I listen at least twice a week to the Wembley concert 1985 where he does a sixteen minute version of Tunnel of Love with the most amazing outdo you’ll ever hear. An incredible wordsmith too, a few lines from Romeo and Juliet for starters: “I can’t the talk like their talking on the TV and I can’t do a love song , the way it’s supposed to be, I can’t do everything but I’d do anything for you, can’t do anything but be in love with you” purely genius. Thank you Mark my inspiration my hero.

Completely agree with Chris about Sir Roger Daltry.

Fell in love with Mark's steel guitar Romeo and Juliet...thank you Mark Knopfler love your sense of humour!!❣️🤣😂

Sultans of Swing alone us one of the most important things in my life.

Made my day listening to Mark, congratulations on a great enthusiast interview!!🥰♥️👏👏

What a great man, fabulous musician. SF

Beautiful interview of a great muso aging like fine wine.

Here's another guy who became a guitarist because of the inspiration by MK. There was always a Dire Straits tape playing in our family's Trabant car in the former GDR - God knows where Dad got the tape from as that kind of music was not officially available in the GDR. The first MK concert I went to was in Munich Olympia Hall on the Sailing to Philadelphia tour in 2001, the day after my 22nd birthday. I had gifted the tickets to my Dad for his 50th birthday. By then, I had bought a Fender Stratocaster, not in red but in sunburst with a white scratch plate. Four more concerts followed, Dublin 2010 and 2011 (the latter with MK + Bob Dylan), the blistering hot Bad Kissingen open air in July 2015 and Leipzig 2019. Every time after a concert, I say that this was the best concert I have been to, and every time, the next concert is even better. My favourite MK tune is Sailing to Philadelphia. MK and JT, my two favourite musicians and songwriters, in the same song is just wonderful. I have since ticked a James Taylor concert off my bucket list. Thank you, Mark Knopfler, for writing the soundtrack of my life. I wish you good health, happiness and lots of inspirations to write many more of the songs that we all love. Greetings from Germany.

Proper humble man was great listening to the show this morning keep.up.the good work Chris 👏 🙌 👍

Now thats an interview that was so different, what an amazing person!

Lovely interview. We didn't really buy music when I was growing up. I remember my dad buying "Mull Of Kintyre" (we're Scottish. I think he was delighted that Paul McCartney had deigned to live here) and an Abba album (yes, he probably fancied both Bjorn and Benny ;)). It was either taped off the radio or you'd borrow a cassette from the library. I still remember hearing "Private Investigations" on our Hitachi radio/cassette in the kitchen after I'd just brought it home and being stilled in my tracks by its magic. I was about 10. The flamenco. The dour narration. The match strike. Perfect film noir on audio.

It's been a big year for our Mark. He's very old and not that well, but his star power is brighter than ever. A new album, a charity single with every one of the world's best and most famous guitar players, a guitar auction at Christie's with world record prices and a quarter of the profits donated to charity and a six part documentary with Brian Johnson coming soon. Wow!

Chris Evans is right; Mark Knopfler should have been knighted a long time ago! But it is never too late isn’t it???!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

I just love Mark Knopfler. I love his Amp story, what he did to the family radio. Now, this is a compliment: as a little girl, my favorite cartoon characters were Mr. Magoo and Elmer Fudd (the rabbit killer), so now, l know why MK is my hero ,not only does he have amazing talent And is a good person But the little child in me Is so happy to watch him ❤❤🌬❌️❤️

An absolute gem 👍😊

MK. Saw him at Sheffield Arena in 92 and again on the Road running tour. I'd love to have met him. Straits head since I was 12. Long live the legend that is Mark Knoofler. Thanks MK

Legend, written some wonderful songs!

Mark has written to soundtrack to so many of our lives …

Love it! Just a plug for Agustin Knopfler’s wonderful RU-vid videos of Mark’s 2019 “Farewell” tour. They basically form my Exercise machine playlist and I’m still working my way through them as they are added. Thanks Mark and the band and Agustin 🎸🍾❤️ ps and Chris!

Legend and humble

Always the GOAT!!

For those who don't know much about this guy check out Telegraph Road live performance from Alchemy tour. Then you'll see just what an absolute genius this guy is. Oh and after that everything else. Fantastic interview from Chris as well here. Love his energy and enthusiasm for this great man

What a brilliant interview. An absolute pleasure to listen to. Well done both 👏 👍

What a fantastic interview

A big thank to you for this interview of our old pal good Mark

Absolute LEGEND

Inesquecível a sensação de ter pela primeira vez ouvido a guitarra e a voz de Matk Knopfler. Em 1979, com 15 anos ouvi o Mark pela primeira vez. Lembro e exatamente do som, de minhas mãos colocando o LP no toca disco. Incrível isso.

Chris is remembering the exclusive release of the brothers in arms video

Fantastic interview technique Chris!

Such a great interview!

Still as beautiful as on the first day. THANKS

This is just beautiful ❤❤

Great interview!

Mark can do more with two or three notes than a lot of other guitarists. Less is more and what he plays has always been quality to me.

So good to listen to 👍

If you haven't bought the new album One Deep River buy it! Let's get Mark to number 1 on Sunday. Currently number 2.

BRILLIANT ARTIST

They're such different characters, but you got to love em both.

If I could go back in time, I would make sure I was at Alchemy Live! 100% x

Tunnel 13 on the new album... fantastic.

I would love to hear Justin Hayward and Mark Knopfler do a duet on their steel guitars...Justin Hayward is rarely listed on great guitar heroes... he's my idol and met him twice up close and personal...once even live in the studios with him on Radio 2 ... Jameson's Guest Request Spot 8th April 1993...6 years earlier at Xmas Party celebrating 20 years Days of Future Passed!!... Yes Mark Knopfler and Justin Hayward should be Knighted!!❣️

New album is so good

Just great. Super guy.

Beautiful

I remember spotting his tremor and loss of fluid motion when he did the tribute at the racetrack for Stirling Moss. I keep spotting it here. Really sad as he is such a great player.

I went to see Show of Hands at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill a few months and they opened with Romeo and Juliet and at the end of the song Steve Knightley said "and all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme......... what an unbelievable lyric. The bas*ard. If I'd written that, I might have come here by helicopter today." As much as I love lots of other bands, including SoH, there is only one artist I absolutely can't do without and that's MK and has been for decades. He possesses a truly rare magic.

The concert in the desert was the Tube special in Israel with Paula Yates

Very good 🎶

Muy bien es una alegría verlo ❤❤❤❤❤❤

In the "desert" was the trip to Israel with Paula Yates interviewing..I think that's what Chris was on about...

100% certified LEGEND👍

1978 my best friend’s sister’s boyfriend was working on the Space Shuttle project in Germany and he was raving about a new band called Dire Straits .

I have not played guitar for years.... But you make me want to go out and get another guitar...... I am 66

Great interview. Evans is a consummate professional. But I think he means it here. Knopfler…words fail me.

Je t'aime

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Seria lindo a los reportajes traducido en español ❤❤❤❤❤❤

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MK is the sole reason guitar is my biggest passion 40 years +. Im sure im not on my own

#MarkKnopfler 😍💓❤

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I love when it Marks Polite . and allways a joy . It must take some doing . Xxx

Shame it was only half an hour, could have been 2 hours easily

Would have been a great interview if Chris would shut up a bit and stop trying to show off what he learned before the interview. Please let that absolute legend speak and shut up. Sorry. Love MK. X

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"I remember that I had to go and feed the fish". :) This got to be a meme of groundedness.

Lovely interview Chris.... Mark Knopfler is a good geordie egg.

The desert was the tube music show in the 80s they were in Israel

MK should get a knighthood for the Alchemy concert alone never mind all the charity stuff and epic concerts he's done, yep he's had bandmates along the way but what a musician one of the greats as for 27 on the list do me a favour. Also Chris is right to not put Glen on the list is ridiculous

Chris was great in this interview, obviously a proper fan but still manages to keep it interesting and relevant 😊