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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Henry Yates

“Being called a guitar hero was just awkward. Whether I’ve written a good song or not, that’s what counts to me”: Mark Knopfler on 40 years of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms – the guitars, the riffs… the pressure of learning to play in time

Mark Knopfler plays his Fender Stratocaster live in 1985, wearing a cowboy shirt and red terry headband.

Behind an unmarked door in a nondescript West London street, you’ll find the recording studio of the world’s most reluctant rock god.

Do this job long enough and you’ll learn to spot the artists who project a carefully cultivated aura of false modesty, often blended with a phoney man-of-the-people vibe. With Mark Knopfler, you can tell, it’s absolutely genuine.

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