Despite the monumental success of tracks like Sultans of Swing and Money For Nothing, Mark Knopfler says his favorite ever guitar solo from his repertoire is a solo he recorded on a cheap electric guitar and that was far from perfect.
Penned as the theme of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 comedy-drama film, Local Hero, Going Home is up there as one of the greatest instrumental guitar tracks of them all. The song lives on as the walk-out music for soccer team Newcastle United, of whom Knopfler is a childhood supporter, and was the subject of a bumper charity re-release last year.
