As Dire Straits’ seminal album Brothers in Arms celebrates its 40th anniversary, legendary six-stringer Mark Knopfler looks back on the songwriting process of the record's key tracks in an exclusive interview with Guitar World, and how four notes can make – or break – a song and its legacy.
Starting with Walk of Life – undisputedly one of the band's biggest commercial hits – Knopfler recollects, “Walk of Life came from a big spell of listening to Cajun music –that’s the accordion lick, played on a keyboard by Guy Fletcher – combined with a rockabilly guitar rhythm. That would have been played on my red ’83 Schecter Telecaster.”
