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MARK KNOPFLER

The frontman for Dire Straits is also a skilled composer, tuneful singer, 

and one of the most celebrated guitarists to emerge in the 1970s and '80s.

The most celebrated British guitar hero to emerge in the 1970s and '80s, Mark Knopfler rose 

to fame as the leader of Dire Straits, and his songwriting and incisive guitar work played a decisive 

role in making them an international success story. At a time when punk and new wave 

were making technique for its own sake seem irrelevant, and metal was taking the guitar solo

in noisier and unpredictable directions, Knopfler's clean but dexterous picking proved 

there was still room for traditionalism and chops in mainstream rock & roll. 

But even without considering Dire Straits, Knopfler has accumulated an impressive résumé 

as a producer, sideman, songwriter, and film composer, working alongside 

some of the best and best-known figures in the music business

"GET LUCKY"

2009     BOX SET     MERCURY RECORDS      2708675

MADE IN EU       ORIGINAL  PRESSING

LIMITED EDITION 

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 6 02527 08675 0

Label Code: LC00268

LABEL:  MERCURY VERTIGO

Catalog on sticker 2708675

On Box front: DELUXE LIMITED EDITION

On Box rear: www.markknopfler.com

? © 2009 Will D. Side Limited...........a Universal music company. 

Unauthorised copying..........Made in the EU.   BIEM/SABAM   LC00268  2708675

LP tracklisting

Side A: BORDER REIVER - HARD SHOULDER - YOU CAN'T BEAT THE HOUSE - BEFORE GAS AND TV

Side B: MONTELEONE - CLEANING MY GUN

Side C: THE CAR WAS THE ONE - REMEMBRANCE DAY - GET LUCKY

Side D: SO FAR FROM THE CLYDE - PIPER TO THE END

CD tracklisting: same tracks of the LP

Bonus CD tracklisting: PULLING DOWN THE RIDE - HOME BOY - GOOD AS GOLD

DVD tracklisting: GET LUCKY - CLEANING MY GUN - REMEMBRANCE DAY

MARK & BAND - STUDIO TOUR - CONTROL ROOM

Visual Documentary DVD tracklisting: ALFIE USA - FRONT OF HOUSE

MR. SAGGERS IN KETTERING - MONITORS - BACKSTAGE - STAGE AND MERCHANDISING

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With the release of Get Lucky, Mark Knopfler has made as many solo studio albums as he made group studio albums with Dire Straits, which may be a signal that it's time to stop comparing his two careers and simply accept them as separate entities. Of course, since Knopfler was the lead singer, chief instrumentalist, and songwriter for Dire Straits, there are obvious similarities, even if he has taken a deliberately different path as a solo artist. Basically, he's a lot quieter. "Border Reiver," the first song here, begins with a pennywhistle and a piano, then strings join in. Soon enough, Knopfler's distinctive conversational baritone begins calmly intoning lyrics, and eventually there are examples of his melodic fingerpicked guitar style on both acoustic and electric. He even works up to a smoldering swamp rock shuffle, à la J.J. Cale, on "Cleaning My Gun." But that's as close as he comes to really rocking out. More typical is "Hard Shoulder," a ballad that employs a twangy guitar sound and comes across as a number that Glen Campbell could have had a hit with back in his late-'60s "Wichita Lineman" heyday. The tunes support Knopfler's story-songs and musical character studies, as he describes or embodies truck drivers ("Border Reiver"), itinerant workers ("Get Lucky"), guitar makers ("Monteleone"), and sailors ("So Far from the Clyde"), among others, painting a portrait of pastoral and blue-collar life in the British Isles some time in the past. This Glasgow-born guitarist comes by the Celtic influence honestly, of course, but he seems to be trying to create his own pseudo-traditional repertoire of what often sound like old folk songs. That's certainly one of the things he was trying to do in Dire Straits. "Remembrance Day" here is similar in tone to Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms," but then so is much of Knopfler's solo work; old fans still may lament that there isn't much that sounds like "Sultans of Swing" or "Money for Nothing."...(AllMusic)