Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Romeo And Juliet (Real Live Roadrunning | Official Live Video) 

Anyone else listening to this masterpiece in 2024

I was 76 years old when I was diagnosed with stage 4 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. A dear friend recommended that my wife and I listen to Mark Knopfler’s music. I had never heard about Mark Knopfler before and so I’ve started listening to him and it was amazing how how he kept me out of my head and put me straight into my heart through the process of simply listening to his words and music. It helped me take care myself I spite of cancer and after 6 months I was cancer free. I’m still listening to Mark Knopfler and I will listen to him for the rest of my life.

This was my first love song, I met a swiss girl in summer in spain, and when she cames back to switzerland I wrote for her letters of love while I was listening this song in my room. Her name was Juliette. I was 14 years old, now I'm 50. And thiss song made me remember her... ❤

I’m 26 years old and own every album on vinyl and cd. One of the greatest musicians of all time . And I will keep this music alive by sharing it with my children.

Mark : "I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be"... Also Mark : writes one of the greatest love songs of all time.

About 20 yrs ago I was talking to an English guy in a pub in California. He mentioned that he was on his way to see Mark Knopfler in concert and asked if I was a fan. I replied that I was a casual fan of Dire Straits etc. The look of incredulity that came over his face, I'll never forget. He then goes to the jukebox and plays 5 or 6 Knopfler tunes back to back and says nothing while they play. At the end, looks at me and says, are you a fan yet? Well, here I am writing about it 20 yrs later.

The best beautiful intro... That piano... Oh man... This is a masterpiece ❤

Dire Straits was the soundtrack to my teens. I'm now 61. I hope I'm not alone in that putting headphones on and listening to the skill, art and absolute magic of Mark and his guitar transports me to a place....there is nothing but the raw emotion this song evokes. I will be forever grateful.

Mr Knopfler at his peak. This is my favorite live version of this timeless song.

I'm 70 years old and I was never a big Dire Straits fan, frankly never listened to enough of their music. About two years ago this song kept popping up on my RU-vid suggestions. I finally listened to it even though I didn't even know who Mark was. So glad I did, I have become a bit obsessed with his music ever since. I know some people here loved this music when they were 3 days old. All I can say is better late than never.

Jeans, a comfortable shirt, no distractions just musical genius. What a privilege to have grown up with artists like Mark Knopfler

One of the most beautiful songs ever made.

Cried my eyes out to this in 82, battered by unrequited love as a teenager. 40 years later I still have a tear in my eye, and can sing it word for word 💕

This is not a song. This is a prayer.

I remember coming home when I was about 17 (2001) singing this and my mum was so chuffed! "you've discovered real music" she said. RIP Mum, one of a thousand memories x

" Singing up at people like that." What a class line.

I seriously think not enough people realize how special and important this mans music is and has always been

I once heard Mark Knopfler in an interview acknowledge that there is no way he would have made it in the music business today. That says more about the rotten state of the music business than it says about the creative guitar genius who wrote songs as graceful and poignant as this, Romeo and Juliet. Thank God my generation had the taste and ability to recognise what is distinctive and timeless.

Mark Knopfler on guitar makes me teary and I don't know why. It's just so...beautiful.

Probably the best line ever written, "all I do is kiss you, through the bar s of a rhyme " Then says it all again through his guitar. This is why Mark is such a genius. ❤

What A God Given Gift, the ability to create music is.

Half the world loves mark ...the other half hasn’t found him yet

It's 2023 and it's definitely one of the best songs of all time, a total masterpiece. It never gets old.

I lost my husband last month and listening to this amazing plangent melody provides real balm for the soul. Beyond beauty- the real music of the spheres. Thank you forever guys ❤

How Dire Straits did not have more number ones is criminal! What a magnifcent talent Mark Knopfler is.

Mark Knopfler just stands there as relaxed as someone taking a leak - no puffed up egotistical jerk there...that is raw talent and a humble modest artist - the likes we seldom see.

Reminds me of when my husband & I used to listen in the car to this over & over-I lost him in 2020 to cancer at age 58. Wait for me my Gareth. Love you always & forever xx ❤️

Certainly one of the most beautiful songs of all time.

In addition to boundless thanks to Mark Knopfler for his genius and humility, I'll offer a shout-out to the audio engineers who captured this live masterpiece in all its glory so that we mortals can enjoy it forever.

An absolute musical genius. My late father called Mark Knopfler the greatest music writer and guitarist of his generation. I'd be close to saying THE greatest. I have so many great family memories and in alot of them I can clearly remember dire straits setting the background ambiance. Even lying on his death bed dying from cancer my father had his portable stereo beside him playing dire straits till his end. I believe it kept him in a state of peace. And at his funeral he was walked out to Why Worry. So thank you Mr Knopfler for blessing us with your music. I truly do appreciate it. I hope to one day save enough money to buy a guitar good enough to do your music justice and learn to play sultans of swing. I'll go sit with my dad and play it to him.

This song never gets old... masterpieces rarely do. Guys and girls you gotta listen to Mark playing his instrumental Going Home, I lived with end stage heart failure from 42 until 52, and man that song listened to really loud felt like I was finally going home and rest and peace were within my grasp......I incredibly received a heart transplant 4 and a half years ago.... Going Home still brings a tear to my eye and joy to my adopted heart!! Peace and love to you all.

Ah, the keyboard work... He can surround himself with such superb session musicians. Lovely man.

This must be the most beautiful version of Romeo and Juliet. One of few songs that actually makes me cry, especially this one

This song is without doubt one of the greatest of the 20th Centuary and probably of all time .

My husband turned me on to Mark many years ago but when he turned me on to Romeo & Juliet my heart melted! I lost my husband to diabetes in 2019 and I can close my eyes while I listen to this song and he is right next to me. “And all I do is miss you……….”

I listen to Romeo & Juliet every night before bedtime & I go to sleep smiling thinking about how you can have a love you just can't forget. Thank u for this special song Mark Knoffler Knopfler!

"All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme." Best line ever written.

I could not get enough of the first single, "Sultans of Swing", from 1978. Godspeed Mark. From a drafted, disabled, and Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68.

Thank you Mark Knopfler for showing us what grown-up music and musical genious looks like. What a gift.....

8 years old. I didn't know. 13 years old, I heard Brother's in Arms. cable had not even trenched MTV into my house yet. rebellious. drugs. truant. a fan. 2024. 51 years old. Thank you. I love you.

What a privilege it is to be alive in the same era as Mr Knopfler.

Sitting with a beauty way out of my league. My sweet wife of all these years. She is graceful, wise, and gorgeous, and funny, and just dumb enough to love me. Moved by this music.

Mark, I honor your many years of service. I am 82 and still love every minute of your songs. God Bless You.❤

No one has ever touched the strings with the same love that you have over the years, Mark. It has been a privilege to witness that love over the years. It has kept me playing and searching for that passion for 50 years and counting. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Oh lordy...21 years old and at Sussex University and madly in love with an American who had to head back home...and this killer hit was played everywhere.. still hits where it really hurts ..40 years later ( though I m married with adult children)...music does that to you.

It’s 4/22/23 and I’ve watched this performance 100s of times. Never fails to bring joy, melancholy, peace and happiness to my soul.

I'm listening again and again!! I'm 68 & Love Mark"s Songs. Chills down My Spine, weaping for My lost Romeo. God Bless You Mark for the BEST LOVE SONGS EVER.

This is the most romantic song ever written ❤

The opening piano is just amazing, I can't stop replaying it

I don't care what anybody says, Mark is the most under appreciated musician of his era. People think about "money for nothing" and songs like it when there are so many gems like this that are so much more...He is such a talented and yet humble man. He is like the father in law every kid wants to have. You know you'll never measure up and you're kind of ok with it.

This song hasn't aged a day. It still makes me think of one person in particular. A shot I never had the courage to take. She introduced me to this song and we both loved it. Bittersweet and beautiful.

One of the Greatest Song Ever Created. Sir Mark is the best guitarist ever. Amazing. Masterpiece ❤

"All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme..." Such a beautiful line.... This song is an all timer for me and this particular version is near the top!

I am a 65 years old korean when I watched his concert at france via televised HBO 30 years ago. He got me totally. Best musician, guitarist in century. Love to see him in 2022. My family still listening his song on our vacation.

Thanks to my musician boomer Mum, I’ve been listening to Mark my whole life. I’m now lucky enough to own one of the best headphone rigs available and this song, especially the intro is one of the best live demonstrations available! Even in crappy 320kbps YT format. The guy’s a god.

This man captures the heart of humanity. Thank you Mr. Knopfler.

when i was young i was in childrens homes and in care,, since i was 8... back in the 80's this mans music helped me through some pretty tuff times in my life,, and kept me moving on with my life,, in my eyes hes my hero,, on stage and on that guitar,, always be my hero.

Knopfler’s guitar playing is so clean and restrained but still so powerful. Sad to see the music industry moving away from true musical artists such as him.

In this age of hip hop and all the other crap that passes as music these days, i am so pleased to have music like this around. This is so good, it actually makes my heart ache, but in a good way. Thank you for this master piece. 🙏

This was the song playing as my mum passed away. We put an Emmylou playlist on as that was her favourite artist and this song came on and she passed just as it ended. Hopefully it was dad walking her into heaven.

People like Mark (and also David Gilmour) they don’t have a clue on how important their music end up being on our lives. We just have to thank them for putting their gift to such a good use for the world. 🖤

How can you listen to a song 1000 times & fall in love with it every time like you just heard it for the first time??? 💯🔥🌹

"I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you. I can't do anything except be in love with you" I remember when I first heard this song and this lyric specifically. What an incredible feeling and thought to have for another. This is the ultimate compliment to give someone.... I hope to feel this way one day.

That resonator riff is a doorway to paradise. Heaven lies just beyond.

This song is utter genius. The opening few bars - the blend of instruments. They don’t do it like this anymore - this track will live forever…

Mark Knopfler mastered the paradoxical art of restrained passion. His songs are so cool and understated, yet brimming with passion and emotion. And he's one of the great guitarists of all time.

THAT PIANO!!! Who is that genius behind it? Such perfectly arranged accents (besides the intro). What a joy to listen to❤

One of the most beautifull lovesongs of music history - for sure!!!!!!!!

Mark Knopfler: I can’t do a love song, like the way it’s meant to be Everyone: You just did.

I cannot speak highly enough about this man and those who stand on the stage with him. He is one of the very few artist's who doesn't have the need to stand front and center. He simply doesn't have that kind of ego. He allows those talented folks who back him to shine in their own brilliance. Don't see a great deal of that. Having said that, I'm of the opinion that every note he plays and every lyric he sings are wrapped in such passion and emotion. One does not just listen to his music.....they feel it. He draws me so far into his music and it's a place I choose to stay for a while. Simply my Mark Knopfler loving opinon::)) !! I'm forever grateful for his existence and the beauty he shares with us. He is on a level all his own! Now should I tell you how I really feel about this genius:::))) He shines brilliantly in my eyes.

Never stopped listening, regardless of the year

I first heard Dire Straits in high-school after a break up, amazing how your music helped with a broken heart. Now 36 years later your music helped with other heart breaks, marriage, divorce, marriage again, the births of my daughters, and the deaths of my mother and then my sister. Thank you for helping me, inspiring me, and inspiring my children.

Probably the greatest love song ever written, by one of the greatest songwriters to ever have lived. Such insight into the human condition, reminds me of the greatest poets and composers of the past. Thanks Mark for what you have given to us.

"Can't do a love song" my ass. This is one of my favorite love songs. Brilliant.

How a song can reach deep inside you , so much so that words can’t express what music like this does for our souls , what a gift to be able , to give us all these wonderful emotions ❤

One of the most beautiful love songs that have ever been and will ever be composed, painfully beautiful! His language transcends any time and place, and speaks the universal language… Lyrics and music go straight to heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

All my failed relationships in the 80s summed up in one bittersweet track. One moves on, but one never forgets, and music takes us right back there like it was just yesterday... Knopfler is one of the few whose solo career surpassed and grew way beyond his rockband existence; his songwriting really blossomed. But this is one from the 80s that I'll never forget...

Every note is intentional. Every tone is pure.

We said goodbye to my dad just over a year ago. He was a massive Dire Straights/Mark Knopfler fan; looking back he probably wanted to be him.. We recently scattered his ashes in his hideaway in Spain and one evening I was sat next to the open bbq alone for a few minutes after a few beers and this version of Romeo and Juliet came on my RU-vid and I wished he was there to hear it; being the grumpy old technophobe, I know he wouldn't have heard this version before. What I do know though, having been passed his musical ear and the emotions that go with it, when that guitar tone comes in at 7:25 he would have been sat round that fire with me thinking the exact same thing and how wonderful it is. A lovely memory, and reminded of whenever I listen to it. I don't think you will read this Mark, but thanks for creating a moment in time.

Heaven must consist of listening to this song over and over again… Thanks eternally Mark for your celestial creativity 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏🫶

Marc looks here like the cool dad chrashing his 16years old daughter's party with his guitar, and everyone (except his daughter) loves it.

I’m a generation younger than the true Knopfler era, but I love this with all my heart. He is so understated, the antithesis of the modern age of fame in a second. Just wearing jeans and a shirt, playing phenomenal music. Thank you Mark!

That piano intro at the beginning makes my heart melt. It's bloody beautiful 🥰

Amazing how Mark Knopfler can make a National guitar sounds like a mandolin.

For me, Mark is one of the best musicians, we have in the last and this century. He is always on the line, cool as cool can be. No allures, nor drama, no bad stories. Only focused on music, and one of the best guitar players ever. Thaks for the great music, thanks for all the wonderful moments.

I've listened to his music since 1978, when I was 18. His songs tell stories, and the stories have meaning. I finally saw him in concert last year, and had tears rolling down my face. He is a treasure.

4:54 ... MarkKnopfler am from Morocco, i do forget about English, but never forget the first time i've Heard this song, and the Album, i was 18 years old, a high school student ... now am 45 years old! still the same impressions, the same feeling;

2023: Mr. Knopfler is still one of the greatest musical geniuses in the world!

Mark Knopfler can be described perfectly with only two words: Absolute genius!

I'm 51 right now but everytime I hear this song I feel like I'm alive again and the world is full of the same magic that it used to have when I was a teenager. Thanks Mark ❣️ for all the incredible moments that you have provided to all of us throughout years, decades......I can't help but crying as I hear the first notes and, for a moment, I believe in life and love again.

I was driving pre-dawn to an early meeting and heard this for the first time. It was perfect with no cars on road. I was able to find it later that day and I sent it to my cousin Julia and her husband, very much in love. This was their song. She passed away on 2018 and I miss her every day.

Mamma che bella! L'assolo finale è straordinario per melodia, pulizia, dinamica, armonia. Credo sia una delle più belle versioni in assoluto. Mark dimostra una volta di più che sotto il profilo armonico, melodico è impareggiabile, portando la chitarra elettrica a livelli incredibili per le emozioni che riesce a regalarti.

"All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme." Goddamn, that's still a killer line after all these years!

Knopfler has such an expressive voice. I love the way he puts such emotion into his ballads. You can just feel it in your heart.

That piano intro is severely underrated! Would’ve loved to listen to that for longer even! Anyone knows if there is a longer version of it?

That guitar is absolutely beautiful.

Thanks for this moment Mark.😔 The love of my life , who' s 46, has been in hospital since February 1 after a massive brain bleed caused by an aneurysm rupture. We've been together for 22 happy years and I'm just lost without him. The bleeding affected his eyesight, his walk and he seems to have lost most of his memory ability, so it's almost like our story is now just a blank book. However, when during a video call a nurse asked him who I was, he answered: "A very special lady..." My heart melted and I cried. You will always be my Romeo, Bruno. I'm home waiting for you.

When it's 2 A.M. and you really should be in bed and this comes across as a suggested video? Sure, you've watched it a thousand times but you grab another beer, lean back and just become mesmerized...

Listening on 12 Nov 2023. My Dire Straits Week..startrd with all versions of Sultans of Swing and all Impressions then moved to Brothers in Arms..and now Romeo and Juliet. Mark Knopfler is a music genius. Period. His music just melts your heart

Great tune to sing, along with here’s the lyrics; A lovestruck Romeo sang the streets of serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade Says something like, "You and me, babe, how about it?" Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack" He's underneath the window, she's singing, "Hey, la, my boyfriend's back You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that Anyway, what you gonna do about it?" "Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start And I bet, and you exploded into my heart And I forget, I forget the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?" Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah Now you just say "oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him" "Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry You said 'I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die' There's a place for us, you know the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?" I can't do the talk like they talk on the TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you I can't do anything except be in love with you And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat and bad company All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme Julie, I'd do the stars with you any time "Juliet, when we made love you used to cry You said 'I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die' There's a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?" And a lovestruck Romeo, he sang the streets of serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade He says something like, "You and me, babe, how about it? You and me, babe, how about it?"