That is probably not the case. In 1968 Mark is hired as a junior reporter in the Leeds office of the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper. Dire Straits world tour winds up at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia on 26 April 1986. Tunnel Of Love, a tale of romance in a seaside carnival, is also interpreted by some as Dire Straits own story of their rise to fame: And the big wheel keep on turning / Neon burning up above / And Im just high on this world. Tunnel Of Love showcases a new dynamism in the bands sound and is less laid-back and melancholy. However, in August 1980 David Knopfler, younger brother of group leader Mark Knopfler, quits the group. John Illsley's memoir walks fans through the history of Dire John Illsley is an English musician who rose to fame as the bass guitarist of the critically acclaimed band Dire Straits . The first seven tracks on this set were recorded for BBC Live in Concert on 22 July 1978; the eighth track, Tunnel Of Love, comes from The Old Grey Whistle Test on 31 January 1981. I was building a democracy, and Mark was making an autocracy, says David. By any commercial standard, Brothers In Arms is huge. Private Investigations (2005) (UK no. 6, AUs no. Secondly, Money For Nothing is written in character. By contrast, during the first months of recording, drummer Terry Williams is found unsuitable. Session musician Omar Hakim plays drums on most of the album. Only one album is actually credited to Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure (1980) (UK no. Mark Knopfler goes on to record Neck And Neck (1990) (UK no. Private Dancer is given away to Tina Turner and becomes the title track of her 1984 album. John Illsley: Money is great, but I prefer love over gold - The Times The roadies had to weld baseball bats to keep the mob at bay. 3, US no. Hendrix died in his 20s and Clapton, though he shied away from his earlier, more extravagant fireworks, carried his blues legend status with him. The group amends their name, changing from Brewers Droop to, simply, The Droop. 6) (from which comes the single Your Own Sweet Way) before dissolving. Although future Dire Straits colleague Mark Knopfler also later works with Brewers Droop, Withers and Knopfler are not both in Brewers Droop at the same time. He studies literature at the University of Connecticut before abandoning that to attend the Hartford Conservatory of Music. 62) is rereleased as a single from this album and manages a modest showing on the U.K. singles chart. Had Mark and I been 18 and not 29 we might have been seduced by the glamour, but we knew the deal Virgin were offering wasnt great.. Aside from Chris White, the only member of The Dire Straits Experience who has some history with the band to whom they are paying tribute is Chris Whitten who played drums on Dire Straits 1991-1992 tour. He is one of four children. Born in Bahrain in 1962, Kitty Aldridge was previously married to Neil Sundstrom. The show is headlined by new wave band Squeeze but, aside from Dire Straits, all the other acts on the bill are punk rock bands. It is at this time that Mark Knopfler joins the band as lead guitarist. His height is 1.83 m. Tall, and weight is 85 kg. His zodiac sign is Cancer. Perhaps the most interesting of the remaining songs on the debut album is In The Gallery. The 1985-1986 world tour to promote Brothers In Arms kicks off in Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) on 25 April 1985 almost a month before the album is released. 10) which Sting wrote. Andy Canavan fills in on drums for a few gigs but, by the time Dire Straits embark on a world tour, Terry Williams is back on board. Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (1984) (UK no. Pick Withers is born David Withers on 4 April 1948 in Leicester, England. 1, AUS no. He sparkled, but to his parents horror, John quit to become a full-time sociology student at Goldsmiths. By the time he is 11, David has a guitar, piano and drum kit. Dire Straits bassist John Illsley releases his first solo album, Never Told A Soul (1984). He tours with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel in 1979 and 1981 and with Roxy Music on the tour to promote their album Avalon (1982) (UK no. Knopfler explains, 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. 41) with country rock singer Emmylou Harris; Real Live Roadrunning (2006) in concert with Emmylou Harris; Kill To Get Crimson (2007) (UK no. Mehr Bilder. 1) is the fourth Dire Straits album. Charlies music was kinder on the ears.. Guy Fletcher appears on many of the solo albums by former Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler. On the other hand, they had a liberal bias for letting us follow our own path. 1985s Brothers In Arms sold more than 30million copies worldwide. When Dire Straits go on tour in 1983 to promote both Love Over Gold and the ExtendedancEPlay EP, they are joined by Tommy Mandel (keyboards) to help ease the burden on keyboardist Alan Clark. Erwin Knopflers Hebrew background and anti-fascist politics led to him fleeing Hungary in 1939 to avoid the spread of Nazism across Europe. He stayed at a friends Deptford flat, coming home to find the front door had been kicked in and the whole place had been smashed to pieces, including some of my favourite records, there was blood on the floor, ceiling and walls, The angry boyfriend of a student John had slept with had inflicted the damage. After Brewers Droop calls it a day, Mark Knopfler plays with local pub bands. Eventually, he settles in with a band called Caf Racers. 35) (on the Mercury label) is also available in one and two disc versions. Porcaro is subsequently asked to tour with Dire Straits by declines due to his pre-existing commitments with the U.S. group Toto. Subsequently, John Illsley releases the following solo albums: Streets Of Heaven (2010); Testing The Water (2014); Live In London (2014); and Long Shadows (2016). WebDiscover Glass by John Illsley released in 1988. In an era of strong images and the quest for new sounds, Dire Straits defied the odds, dominated by its non-pop star leader Mark Knopfler and a low-key blues music clearly rooted in the past. Their accessible, traditional blues-based music made them perfect for the massive, mature, relatively wealthy strata of the public that likes its music tightly performed and relatively digestible., Song lyrics copyright Rondor Music (Australia) Pty Ltd. with the exception of Money For Nothing (Rondor Music / Virgin Music). 25), The Welsh Connection (1976) and Alls Well That Ends Well (1977). He excels at third person narratives but his writing is less often personal. 116, AUS no. Different jobs, building sites, factory, warehousing, farming, a lot of manual work.. Less than a fortnight later, on 12 November Mark Knopfler releases his soundtrack for the movie The Princess Bride (1987). The Dire Straits Fender guitar logo on the back cover is designed by Geoff Halpern. It was never just about music. And Dylan like Berry is a well-regarded lyricist. Guy Fletcher first works with Mark Knopfler in 1983 on the soundtracks for Comfort And Joy and Cal. It first breaks through in Holland, then Germany, then Australia. A (non-charting) EP, Live At Knebworth, is released in 1990 to mark the occasion. In the U.S.A., Badges, Posters, Stickers And T-Shirts (recorded when Pick Withers was still with the group) is added as a fourth track on this EP. The boy takes an early interest in music learning first piano, then trumpet. John and Pauline go on to have two children together, James (born in 1982) and Jessica (born in 1988). A total of fifty-five shows are played during this tour. The line-up of this group is: Alice Spring (vocals), Hal Lindes (guitar), Mick Howard (bass) and Paul Varley (drums). Rockpile has a rather unusual existence, providing backing on solo albums by group leaders Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe. The One That Got Away: John Illsley of Dire Straits and the Aston Industrial Disease (US no. The computer animation was used in large part because Mark Knopfler wasnt enthusiastic about appearing in a video. 26) features a smoky saxophone part by Michael Brecker. 1), is released on 7 October. Dire Straits saxophonist Chris White releases a solo album, Shadowdance (1991). The title track, Brothers In Arms, is the first CD single though it has a very limited run. An exceptionally gifted guitarist, virtuoso guitar playing, plays a Stratocaster with the understated emotion of a young Eric Clapton and one of the new guitar heroes. When it becomes clear that Jack Sonni will have to raise his children alone, he resigns from Dire Straits in 1988. Vocalist Jimmy Nail also makes a guest appearance at one of these charity shows. The water metaphor is also present in the moody opening track Down To The Waterline. Emerging from a sonic fog like the light atop an incoming ship, Mark Knopflers guitar illuminates a couple on the wharf with No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn / Your hands are cold but your lips are warm. Supposedly, Down To The Waterline is inspired by Mark Knopflers younger days in the port city of Newcastle. This necessitates another membership change for Dire Straits. When Mark Knopfler is 7 and younger brother David is 2 the family moves to England. The fifth song, Sacred Loving, is written by guitarist David Knopfler. John Illsley Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family An additional live EP, Encores (UK no. Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni left the group in 1988. Through this connection, Iovine obtains the services of pianist Roy Bittan from Bruce Springsteens backing group, The E-Street Band, to play on this album. Subsequently, he works with such country music singers as Vince Gill, Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. Sonni must have made a good impression because, in 1985, Knopfler invites Sonni to join Dire Straits. It is said that the brothers had an explosive argument leading to Davids exit. On the other hand, Romeo And Juliet (UK no. Erwin Knopfler is an architect and chess-player. Producer Jimmy Iovine had previously served as a recording engineer for U.S. rock star Bruce Springsteen. The boys are born into a middle-class household. Apparently, they do not follow their fathers religious faith. Bassist John Illsley says, Sting used to come to Montserrat to go windsurfing, and he came up for supper at the studio. In April 1977 Mark moves out of his Buckhurst Hill flat and moves into a flat where his brother, David, is living. It all happened very quickly, says John. Chuck Berry made a huge impression, adds Mark, referring to the 1950s rock performer who combined singing, twangy guitar parts and songwriting. Paul V. Franklin is born on 31 May 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Franklins speciality is pedal steel guitar, the instrument that provides the weeping sound long, keening notes most often associated with country music. He was a champion of up-and-coming bands, in a different way to John Peel, says John. John Illsley: My Life in Dire Straits After a few months of rehearsals and a show at the Rock Garden, Dire Straits make a demo recording. Mark is both singer and guitarist on this track and is backed by his Duolian Stringpickers partner Steve Phillips (guitar) and the Silverheels rhythm section, Dave Johnson (bass) and Paul Granger (drums). Im still able to get up there and lay it down fairly well so Im happy about that. It is at a makeshift festival at the back of a council block in Deptford. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); sonicnet.com Dire Straits no author credited as at 28 August 2001, Friday On My Mind by Ed Nimmervoll (Five Mile Press, 2004) p. 147, The Rolling Stone Rock Almanac by the Editors of Rolling Stone magazine (Papermac, 1984) p. 296, The Illustrated Rock Handbook edited by Roxanne Streeter, Ray Bonds (Salamander Books, 1983) p. 63, 131, wikipedia.org as at 26 July 2017, 3 January 2019, buddharadioprep.rzero.com Sultans of Swing: The Untold Story of Dire Straits by Paul Rees as at 30 July 2017, The Daily Telegraph (U.K. newspaper) Mark Knopfler: How Did We Avoid Disaster interview conducted by Neil McCormick (5 September 2012) (reproduced on telegraph.co.uk), Internet Movie Database imdb.com as at 1 August 2017, The Sunday Mail (U.K. newspaper) I Really Was in Dire StraitsBut Now Ive Beaten the Cancer I had for 15 Years: John Illsley Tells for the First Time how he was Saved from Chronic Leukaemia interview conducted by Alice Smellie (18 May 2014) (reproduced on dailymail.co.uk), The Watford Observer (U.K. newspaper) Former Dire Straits Bassist John Illsley Opens up about Finding Out he had Leukaemia and Writing his New Album in Hospital interview conducted by Laura Enfield (2 October 2014) (reproduced on watfordobserver.co.uk), TVE (Madrid, Spain) John Illsley interview (5 May 1992) via 5 (above) [John Illsley], davidknopfler.com via 5 (above) [John Illsley], Dire Straits Sleeve notes by Charlie Gillett (Vertigo/Mercury Records Ltd, 1996 reissue) p. 2, allmusic.com Dire Straits by Stephen Thomas Erlewine as at 31 July 2017, Guitar World 100 Greatest Guitar Solos: No. 2). John Illsley - VIII (Album Review) March 04, 2022 in Album Reviews, Classic Rock, Singer-Songwriter For many, John Illsley will always be the imposing figure standing next to Mark Knopfler as Dire Straits left the London pub circuit behind and achieved worldwide domination via their fifth album Brothers In Arms'. In the second half, Knopfler is joined by Guy Fletcher (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), Chris White (saxophone), John Illsley (bass) and Danny Cummings (drums) to play some Dire Straits songs. Other guests include Phil Palmer (guitar) [the nephew of Ray & Dave Davies of U.K. rock band The Kinks], Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar) [from The Notting Hillbillies] and Danny Cummings (percussion). It was a one-night stand, I had no idea she was attached Father-of-four John now lives Illsleys new book is a celebration of the bands achievements and of his enduring friendship with Mark Knopfler. When John Illsley was writing and demoing for his imminent eighth solo album, the last thing on his mind was to chronicle his remarkable past as a co-founder of one of the biggest bands in rock history. The music of Dire Straits is difficult to categorise. He is the son of Erwin Knopfler and Louisa Mary Knopfler. Rocker John Illsley reveals Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler was I did a couple of gigs with Marks band because the bass players girlfriend was having a baby. 17, US no. Romeo And Juliet is, of course, named after the star-crossed lovers of William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet (1597). Mercifully the surgeon reattached it. and later settled in Hampshire with his four children and his wife, Stephanie. 22). Like her brother, Nastassia Staz Lindes combines modelling and music. John Illsley Wiki, Biography, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Family, Former Dire Straits guitarist Hal Lindes composes the soundtrack for the movie The Boys are Back (2009). Live In Les Beaux De Provence (2007) is credited to John Illsley with Cunla and Greg Pearle. Dire Straits officially disband in 1995. Guys mother, Barbara, was a session music singer. The music of Dire Straits is also kept alive by compilation sets and concert recordings. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. He did his bit there and then. Sting provides high harmonies and the opening wail of I want my MTV. This is a reference to the U.S. cable television network MTV (Music Television) that plays non-stop music videos. 27, AUS no. Mark was our standard bearer and ticket to being exceptional rather than merely good, claims younger brother guitarist David Knopfler. David Knopfler is already sharing his abode with John Illsley. 43); Knopfler produces Bap Kennedys The Sailors Revenge (2012); Privateering (2012) (UK no. John Illsley Around 1990, Hal Lindes marries Mary Lovett, a model who was the first wife of U.K. pop star Peter Frampton from 1972 to 1976. If I hadnt jacked in my job and gone to Goldsmiths College, I wouldnt have got a council flat, bassist John Illsley tells me. Between the release of the first single by Dire Straits and the launch of their debut album, the group begins their first full-scale tour as a headline act though the tour does not end until after the album comes out. Love Sculpture (1966-1970) is a group fronted by noted Welsh guitarist Dave Edmunds. Love Over Gold is an album of songs filled with lengthy, experimental passages. Note: Three additional songs are created for Love Over Gold but do not end up on the album. Bassist and founding member John Illsley - along with guitarist and frontman Mark Knopfler, the band's sole constant His first guitar was a Rosetti Lucky Seven - the same choice as Beatle George Harrison and Rolling Stone Keith Richards. Paul Franklins first notable gig is in 1978 as part of Barbara Mandrells touring band. Illsley now lives in Hampshire, with his second wife Stephanie and his four children. He owns a local pub, the East End Arms, located in the hamlet of East End between Lymington and Beaulieu, and which has been listed by critics as one of the Fifty Best Pubs Around Britain. At one point, the songs narrator sneers, See the little faggot with the earring and the make-up? The latter title, published by Blackwing Books, is a book of poetry. John Illsley of Dire Straits & His Band with Steve Picken Sat 11th Nov 2017 Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:00pm (Showtimes Approx) Founder member & Bassman of Dire Straits 18 Adv / 20 Door Playing songs from acclaimed new album Long Shadows plus classic Dire Straits. First single Sultans Of Swing went Top Ten in the USA, England, Canada and Australia, and their self-titled debut album went multi-platinum. Williams contributions to Brothers In Arms are minimal but he and Omar Hakim are both credited as drummers on this album. 75) is a humorous piece with a nod to Knopflers old band, Brewers Droop, as a doctor (played by Knopfler) remarks, Youve got smokers cough from smoking / Brewers droop from drinking beer. The opening track on the album, Telegraph Road (14:15), uses a sprawling musical epic to chronicle nothing less than the birth and growth of a city. In 2000 Mark Knopfler is awarded an O.B.E. Sting gest a co-writing credit with Mark Knopfler on Money For Nothing, not so much for I want my MTV but because he sings that line to the tune of the 1980 Police hit Dont Stand So Close To Me (UK no. Firstly, Money For Nothing (UK no. By that time, John and Stephanie are already the parents of a son, Harry (born in 1997) and a daughter, DeeDee (born in 1998). Chris White is born on 13 July 1955 in Bristol, England. When he starts college, John Sunni begins being called Jack. However he is also pursuing his interest in music. To make ends meet, Sonni also works at Rudys Music Shop, an instrument emporium in New York. As a 16 year old, Mark has a harmony duo with classmate Sue Hercombe and Mark and Sue appear together on a local television program.

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