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Mark Knopfler est un auteur, compositeur, guitariste, et chanteur britannique, né à Glasgow en Écosse le 12 août 1949 d’un père hongrois d'origine juive et d’une mère anglaise. Il grandit à Newcastle et est surnommé « L’homme tranquille du rock ’n’ roll » dans les années 1980.

Fondateur durant l'été 1977, avec son frère David, du groupe Dire Straits — qui vient de l'expression anglaise « to be in dire straits » qui signifie « être dans une situation désespérée, dans la dèche » —, il poursuit depuis 1996 une carrière solo. Ses mélodies sont particulièrement fines et adaptées à son style de guitare très aérien, un style blues-country-rock virtuose mêlant le phrasé de Bob Dylan à l’élégante décontraction de J.J. Cale. Mark Knopfler, avec Dire Straits et en solo, a vendu plus de 120 millions d'albums et est considéré comme l'un des plus grands guitaristes de rock de tous les temps.

Il est classé 27° dans le classement des meilleurs guitaristes de tous les temps par le magazine Rolling Stone.

✵ 12. août 1949
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Mark Knopfler: Citations en anglais

“Getting crazy on the Waltzers, but it's the life that I choose.
Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo.
And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam,
And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am.”

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Tunnel of Love, written with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)

“Lady writer on the TV
She had all the brains and the beauty.
The picture does not fit
You talked to me when you felt like it.
Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place.”

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Lady Writer
Song lyrics, Communiqué, (1979)

“You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory.
Well the word is out and I learned.
I got the latest side of the story:
You're pulling out before you get burned.”

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Setting Me Up
Song lyrics, Dire Straits (1978)

“A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade;
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made.
Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade
'N' says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"”

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Romeo and Juliet
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)

“Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay.
He got the action, he got the motion
Oh yeah the boy can play.
Dedication, devotion
Turning all the night time into the day.”

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Walk of Life
Song lyrics, Brothers in Arms (1985)

“Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.
Money for nothin' and chicks for free.
Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger;
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.”

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Money for Nothing, written with Sting
Song lyrics, Brothers in Arms (1985)

“The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
They're refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most.
The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas.
And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease.
There's panic on the switchboard, tongues are tied in knots.
Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots.
Some blame the management, some blame the employees.
And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease.”

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Industrial Disease
Song lyrics, Love over Gold (1982)

“Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong.”

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Industrial Disease
Song lyrics, Love over Gold (1982)

“Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms.”

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Brothers in Arms
Song lyrics, Brothers in Arms (1985)

“I'm tired of being in love and being all alone
When you're so far away from me.
I'm tired of making out on the telephone
Because you're so far away from me.”

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So Far Away
Song lyrics, Brothers in Arms (1985)

“She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll station
And a rock n roll dream.
She's making movies on location.
She don't know what it means.
But the music make her wanna be the story.
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was.
Rollergirl don't worry.
D. J. plays the movies all night long.”

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Skateaway
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)

“And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright.
He can play the honky tonk like anything,
Saving it up for Friday night.
With the Sultans… with the Sultans of Swing.”

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Sultans of Swing
Song lyrics, Dire Straits (1978)

“Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.
There should be sunshine after rain.
These things have always been the same.
So why worry now?”

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Why Worry
Song lyrics, Brothers in Arms (1985)

“Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.
’Cause if you wanna run cool,
If you wanna run cool,
If you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel.”

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Heavy Fuel
Song lyrics, On Every Street (1991)

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