“It was quite a thing to own an instrument in those days, to have a guitar. “It was such a thing to have an instrument like that around that friends would come round just to play it,” said David. Related: “McGear: Two McCartneys, No Waiting”
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In lieu of an amp, which they couldn’t afford, the boys figured out how to plug the guitar into the family radio. David, younger by four years, was forbidden from playing it but would sneak it out when Mark left the house. In high school, students were offered the option to take a Scandinavian cruise as part of a learning excursion, but Mark declined in favor of something far more interesting: a bright red, imitation strat, Hofner Super Solid. He received a much more appropriate drum kit at age 11. As they got older, they began to pick up different musical instruments to try out, including a banjo kept under their grandmother’s bed, which David used to hit like a drum.
Though born in Glasgow, Mark and David moved with their parents to Newcastle at an early age.
But before all that, came a pair of brothers working in offices and classrooms by day, and strumming guitars by night. “It was all good, it was all insane - the speed at which it took off,” he said.ĭire Straits, founded by David and his older brother Mark, released their debut self-titled album in 1978, featuring the monumental hit “Sultans of Swing,” which sent the band touring across the world. We’re sitting with cappuccinos in a secluded room of a wooden pub in the south of England, chatting about the whirlwind that has been his musical career. Unlike the singer in Dire Straits’ “Expresso Love,” David Knopfler does, in fact, want sugar in his coffee.
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