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Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: twm on May 06, 2012, 04:09:52 PM

Title: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: twm on May 06, 2012, 04:09:52 PM
I always thought that Dire Straits was amongst her favorites but look at this:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/night-copy/princess-diana--childhood-record-820718

I won't say who is there and maybe she only got Dire Straits on CD but the presence of you-know-who was a surprise to me.
Title: Re: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: Fieneke2 on May 06, 2012, 05:06:23 PM
They are talking about her childhood collection! Diana was born in 1961 and watching her favourite list and especial all those classic number,s this was her music she listened to as a child!  ;)

I think later when she grew up she got interested in all the other bands like Dire Straits; Duran Duran; Elton John, Bryn Adams; Phil Collins; Level 42 etc
So the fact that DS aren't mentioned in the list of 19 albums doesn't mean she didn't have those albums or those of other great artists!  ;) I mean she might have had 100 albums and now only 19 will be sold!

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Title: Re: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: twm on May 06, 2012, 05:10:16 PM
Well, "Hard Rain" came out in 1976 and I wouldn't have thought it typical fodder for a 15-year old.

As it happens, i agree with you. I suspect that she got DS on CD rather than LP.
Title: Re: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: dmg on May 07, 2012, 02:17:05 PM
Well there is one DS number in the list: Romeo and Juliet! ;D
Title: Re: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: tunnel85 on May 08, 2012, 04:25:55 PM
Well, "Hard Rain" came out in 1976 and I wouldn't have thought it typical fodder for a 15-year old.

As it happens, i agree with you. I suspect that she got DS on CD rather than LP.
I think I was around 15 when I bought my first Dylan album.
Title: Re: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: Pottel on May 08, 2012, 04:47:04 PM
hard rain is a strange choice as a first BD album...imho..
Title: Re: Princess Diana's record collection
Post by: twm on May 08, 2012, 05:05:39 PM
I can recall hearing DS's "Romeo and Juliet" played on BBC Radio Scotland's folk music programme "Travelling Folk" back in the mid-1980s or late-1980s. I thought it a strange choice at the time, perhaps less so now. The programme was a bit more eclectic back then, as they also played a couple of tracks from Mary Chapin Carpenter's first album - before it was released in the U.K., as I recall.