Dire Straits



They lost me with Love Over Gold.

Finally got round to listening to whole of Brothers in Arms for first time, this week. Walk of Life aside, it’s not a bad album.

As we were leaving a big lunch do a few years back, I whispered to my wife that the guy standing next to her was Mark Knopfler. She said angrily “I don’t care who he is, I didn't get any f*ing pudding.” Strange thing about it is that she loves his solo records.
 
Lord Potts said:
Not Dire Straits but Knopfler did do that cringe worthy song with James Taylor about the Mason Dixon line.
What was it?... "I am a Geordie bakers boy with a tape measure in me hand" or summat .
Awful. What Taylor was doing singing on it I can't imagine. Try some of the lyrics out for size.....

"Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forests of the Iroquois"

"baker's boy" and "Iroquois" should have won a feckin prize :rolleyes:
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Leaving For Philadelphia.
Some bands from the eighties have stood the test of time. Tears For Fears have just toured and sold out every venue incl 20k at the O2, 15k at Brum, 13k at Leeds and are doing open air shows this summer. Still sound great.
 
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