A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Waterline Man on July 20, 2009, 01:14:35 PM
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I was just wondering do we know what famous people have been or are DS/MK fans - we know that Betty in the Rovers is a die hard :P.
Lady Di was a big DS & Duran Duran fan.
I heard an interview with Ignacio Guarrido last year (who???? :o) - Spanish golfer who played in the Ryder Cup a few years ago - & he said his favourire band was DS.
Any others????
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The legendary guitarist Dusty Valentino is a huge fan. :)
Seriously though, when you read interviews with other guitar players in magazines they very often cite MK as one of their favourites. Just off the top of my head I can think of people like Scotty Moore, Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer (both Fleetwood Mac), Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) and Steve Earle all saying that they are fans of MK. Seems he's a real "musician's musician).
Oh, and Geri Halliwell out of the Spice Girls was at one of the NHB shows in the late 90s.
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Joe Brown is a great fan too! :D
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tony joe white too
and chet
and gilmour was at a mk show last year (remember marky??)
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And Dan, how could you forget this famous fan????
(http://localhero.free.fr/2bgal/img/20060610/P1010064.jpg)
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Oh, and Glenn Close was at one of the gigs in the US last year.
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And Dan, how could you forget this famous fan????
(http://localhero.free.fr/2bgal/img/20060610/P1010064.jpg)
How could I forget that Sven Goran Erikson was a fan :o :o :o - he's aged a bit though,must be the England job :P :P
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How could I forget that Sven Goran Erikson was a fan :o :o :o - he's aged a bit though,must be the England job :P :P
Would mind some of Sven's money (or women).
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wouldn_'t you mean i guess.
also,...joan armtrading... and emmylou of course..
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Mats Wilander, great Swedish tennis player of the 80s has been quoted saying he was a fan, and Stefan Edberg (tennis player, 80s , Swede too, who now plays squash for my town's club).
And me of course, I am famous in my town, eeeer block, alright, house.
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Apparently Randy Quaid, since he was in the Heavy Fuel video.
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Well, Germany has a TV moderator /comedian called J
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I can't remember when it was but Bette Midler was at one of the shows a few years back (either '01 or '05 I think)
She is a big big fan!
I remember a few years back that Dermot O'Leary made a comment how Romeo & Juliet was one of his favourite songs ever (I think it was when he used to do a bit of the Big Brother Show)
Oh you also got Quentin Tarantino, Don Henley, Sachin Tendulkar, Alan Shearer, Jimmy Nail, Michael Owen and The Killers as fans!!!
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I remember reading Rowan Atkinson attended a NHB concert in the nineties which is not that surprising as he is a Geordie. Also remember reading an interview with Philip Schofield where he mentions Dire Straits as a favourite band (this was before MK had started a solo career). Even more randomly I remember Philip Schofield doing a little sketch on his kids show Going Live or Live and Kicking cant remember which era it was in with Gordon The Gopher dressed up as MK with guitar and On Every Street style headband.
I promise these are true memories and not caused by drug induced hallucinations.
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Oh forgot, Salman Rushdie was at the MK / Emmylou gig at Wembley Arena. In fact already mentioned but so was Jimmy Nail. As was John Illsley.
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Oh forgot, Salman Rushdie was at the MK / Emmylou gig at Wembley Arena.
I heard that Salman's voice wasn't great but he knew all the verses ;D ;D
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lol
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I like that one, Genius.
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Don't forget the the famous gbobmi "Mother of all Knopflerados". Well, according to rollergirl, anyway....
Other than that, I think you guys have done a stellar job of coming up with famous Knopflerados! Shall I solicit them for t-shirts?
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only now did i notice your arse gayle :-)
anyways, we should keep this as a list. god knows when we will be able to use it, however unimportant it might look like.
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only now did i notice your arse gayle :-)
it's difficult to miss though!
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:-*
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Chet Atkins--sadly gone; Brad Paisley; Keith Urban; Phil Everly; Waylon Jennings--also gone--; Jimmy Buffet; Sonny Landreth. Want more?
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Chet Atkins--sadly gone; Brad Paisley; Keith Urban; Phil Everly; Waylon Jennings--also gone--; Jimmy Buffet; Sonny Landreth. Want more?
Yes :P
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Dusty must have just missed you at that 2005 Dublin gig with Reilly Ace of Spies (Sam Neill) I spotted him too.
Oh yeah thread topic (obviuosly this is just where someone has specifically stated their love of DS/MK)
George Harrison (Q interview)
Chris Rea
JJ Cale (said MK goes way beyond what he does) - which I assume means the DS stuff huge orchestration and many songs outside of the blues domain
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still got that Q interview??
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I have a couple of Q issues.
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yeah,but i mean that particular one, strat61??
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Has Salman still got that fatwa hanging over his head?? I was at that Wembly concert and could of been killed by extremists???!!! :o ;D