Video hit Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler - True Love Will Never Fade

Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British songwriter, film score composer, guitarist, and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his brother, David Knopfler, in 1977.

After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler went on to record and produce seven solo albums, and, as with his previous tenure, produced many hit songs.

He has composed and produced film scores for eight films, including Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), and Wag the Dog (1997).

In addition to his work with Dire Straits and as a solo artist and composer, Knopfler has recorded and performed with many prominent musicians, including Chet Atkins, Chris Botti, The Chieftains, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Emmylou Harris, Jools Holland, Sonny Landreth, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Sting, and James Taylor, sometimes working as a session musician. He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman.

Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums to date.

A four-time Grammy Award winner, Knopfler is the recipient of the Edison Award, the Steiger Award and the Ivor Novello Award, as well as holding three honorary doctorate degrees in music from universities in the United Kingdom.

The lyrics:

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

I wonder if there's no forever

No walking hand in hand

Down a yellow brick road

To never never land

These days I get to where I'm going

Make it there eventually

Follow the trail of breadcrumbs

To where I'm meant to be

To where I'm meant to be

I don't know what brought you to me

That was up to you

There's so many come to see me

Who want their own tattoo

I fixed a needle in a holder

Laid my hand upon your spine

And there upon your shoulder

I drew the picture as your sign

When I think about us

I see the picture that we made

The picture to remind us

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

I worked the rowdies and day trippers

Now and then I think of you

Any which way we're all shufflin'

Forward in the queue

They like to move my operation

They like to get me off the pier

And I dream I'm on a steamer

Pullin' outta here

When I think about us

I see a picture that we made

The picture to remind us

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

True love will never fade

Video hit Dire Straits feat.Sting, Eric Clapton, Elton John & Phil Collins

Dire Straits feat.Sting, Eric Clapton, Elton John & Phil Collins- Money For Nothing (Live)

Dire Straits perform Money For Nothing live with Sting, Eric Clapton, Elton John, & Phil Collins at the Prince's Trust Concert on Wembley Arena in 1986.

“Money for Nothing" is a single by British rock band Dire Straits, taken from their 1985 album Brothers in Arms. It was one of Dire Straits' most successful singles, peaking at number one for three weeks in the United States, and it also reached number one for three weeks on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart. In the band's native UK, the song peaked at number four.

The recording was notable for its controversial lyrics, groundbreaking music video and cameo appearance by Sting singing the song's falsetto introduction and backing chorus, "I want my MTV."

The video was also the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network started on 1 August 1987.

"Money for Nothing" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1986 at the 28th Grammy Awards.

Mark Knopfler described the writing of the song in a 1984 interview with critic Bill Flanagan:

The lead character in "Money for Nothing" is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television/​custom kitchen/​refrigerator/​microwave appliance store. He's singing the song. I wrote the song when I was actually in the store. I borrowed a bit of paper and started to write the song down in the store. I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real....

Notable performances

When Dire Straits performed "Money for Nothing" at the 1985 Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium, the performance featured a guest appearance by Sting.

Knopfler performed "Money for Nothing" using his Pensa-Suhr signature MK-1 model guitar with a pair of Soldano SLO-100 tube/valve amplifier heads and Marshall speaker cabinets during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute and Prince's Trust concerts in 1988, as well as the Nordoff-Robbins charity show at Knebworth in 1990 and the On Every Street world tours in 1991/1992. These versions featured extended guitar solos by Knopfler, backed by Eric Clapton and Phil Palmer.

"Money for Nothing" and "Brothers in Arms" were performed at the 1997 Music for Montserrat concert, with Clapton on rhythm guitar, Sting performing background vocals and Phil Collins on drums.

The lyrics:

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

We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup

Yeah buddy that's his own hair

That little faggot got his own jet airplane

That little faggot he's a millionaire

We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchens deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's

I shoulda learned to play the guitar

I shoulda learned to play them drums

Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera

Man we could have some fun

And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?

Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free

We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord

Now that ain't workin' 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 your chicks for free

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (live)

Brothers in Arms is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the closing track on the album of the same name.

There are two studio recorded versions of this song: the album version which is 6:55 minutes, and the shorter version which is 6:05 minutes and features slightly different (and shorter) solos at the beginning and end of the song. The version that appears on Dire Straits' greatest hits album, The Very Best of Dire Straits, is 4:55. The version featured on the live album On the Night contains an extra pedal steel guitar solo and is 8:55. The full-length, studio album version (6:55) was also included on the 2005 compilation The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations.

Mark Knopfler usually played the song on a Gibson Les Paul guitar, rather than his usual Schecter "Stratocaster", and a Les Paul appears in the distinctive promo video, which is in the style of a charcoal drawing, interspersing scenes of the band playing with scenes of war. During Dire Straits' 1992 "On Every Street" tour, Knopfler used his Pensa-Suhr MK1 for this song, like most of the others.

The song is reported to be the first CD single ever released, it was released in the United Kingdom in 1985.

In popular culture

The song was first used in the Miami Vice episode, "Out Where the Buses Don't Run".

Notably, it was used as the theme tune to Civvies, a British TV series from 1992.

The song was notably used in The West Wing episode, Two Cathedrals.

The song was prominently used in the Due South episode, "I Coulda Been a Defendant".

The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 2008 Barry Levinson film What Just Happened.

The song was also featured in the 2001 film "Spy Game."

It was used as the theme tune to the 1992 Jason Isaacs TV series Civies.

It was also used prominently in Vince's death scene in A Mexican Fairytale

The title of Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy novel Baptism of Fire was apparently taken from the song's lyrics. The second stanza of "Brothers in Arms" is also the book's motto.

Cover versions

Gregorian covered the song for their album, Masters of Chant, Chapter 1-3 (Jubiläumsedition)

Folk singer Joan Baez covered the song for her 1987 album, Recently.

Serbian rock band Galija covered the song, with lyrics in Serbian language, entitled "Kad me pogledaš" on their 1989 album Korak do slobode.

Metallica covered the song on Bridge School Benefit 2007 (27 and 28 October).

The Finnish Symphonic power metal band Northern Kings covered the song on their album Reborn in 2007.

Celtic Thunder: Ryan Kelly covered this song as part of their 2007 DVD and during the 2008 tour.

Romanian rock band The Edge has covered this song live.

The Finnish a cappella band Club for Five covered the song on their album You're the Voice in 2009.

Nina Persson (of The Cardigans) and Georg Wadenius on his album "Reconnection" in 2009.

The lyrics:

These mist covered mountains

Are a home now for me

But my home is the lowlands

And always will be

Some day you'll return to me

Your valleys and your farms

And you'll no longer burn

To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction

Baptisms of fire

I've witnessed all your suffering

As the battle raged higher

And though they did hurt me so bad

In the fear and alarm

You did not desert me

My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds

So many different suns

And we have just one world

But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell

And the moon's riding high

Let me bid you farewell

Every man has to die

But it's written in the starlight

And every line on your palm

We're fools to make war

On our brothers in arms