NEW TV DOCUMENTARY

[dustyvalentino]

Part 1 is now here:

The other three parts are uploading now and should appear on YouTube over the next few hours. I'll post the links to them here later in the morning in case anyone has trouble finding them.

Also, if nobody beats me to it, I'll try to get the DVD of this uploaded somewhere tomorrow (any suggestions? dime, perhaps?). It's taken directly from the raw .mpg capture, not re-encoded.

Welcome to the best Mark Knopfler forum in the world piper, and many thanks for your efforts!

Dime is good, although they can be funny about stuff with official material (like this!).

Alternatively we have a dedicated Knopfler tracker here:

http://tracker.knopflertk.net/index.php

Thanks again!

[knopflerized]

I've just watched the First 30 minutes on Youtube waaaaaaawww
Looking forward to watch the rest !!

[Knopflerfan]

It was absolutely amazing, watching the young Knopfler via old family photographs turn into the legend that he is!! I absolutely loved the 'unplugged' versions of various songs being played at British Grove and then the song would merge into the one played on the 'Get Lucky' tour... Some lovely footage of the 'Get Lucky' tour rehearsals too and just to confirm I can do DVD copies for those who would like them. I want NO money just a contribution towards postage.

PM me!!

[herlock]

Just watched the first 2 parts as well.
Very nice the see photos never seen before, to hear Mark talk about his parents, and, above all, to hear him talking about the Spanish City and TOL which he does not play anymore but which obviously he has not disowned !
I am shomehow (so far) a bit disappointed with the live footage, it is almost all taken from official DVDs: Alchemy, On the Night, RLRR... except for "Going Home" with Henk Marvin in Wembley 85 ! which is telling us one interesting thing: BBC still has the Wembley'85 tapes ! so, please, BBC, go and release this gem ! Best versions ever of SoS, BiA (very rocking), Going Home, TOL, PI.... and the one and only video version of MTS ! Please !

[herlock]

Fantastic documentary!   Recognised some people in the audience at a Get Lucky concert!   I'll have to have a closer look tomorrow!
Unfortunately, the only down side was NO SULTANS on Jools, but it was a great night anyway!  Thanks BBC!

So, was there anything more on this Jools show than on the "A Night in London" DVD ?

[superval99]

Fantastic documentary!   Recognised some people in the audience at a Get Lucky concert!   I'll have to have a closer look tomorrow!
Unfortunately, the only down side was NO SULTANS on Jools, but it was a great night anyway!  Thanks BBC!

So, was there anything more on this Jools show than on the "A Night in London" DVD ?

MFN was played, which wasn't on the DVD!    The original television programme was 2 hours long and last night's programme was 70 mins!   Obviously, something had to go and  SOS was too long!    Anyway I already transferred my VHS to DVD, but it would have been nice to have had a better recording.   

[Love Expresso]

Hey, pipertotheend,
that is indeed a great way to introduce yourself to this forum! Thank you so much! I was logging in this morning with hopes that someone could tell me where to get it, and there it was! Great!

And the show itself is really great, too! Love the pics from Mark, he was very good looking from the day one on, wasn't he? And some of them are really
heart warming and nice, I like that one on the motorbike f.e., really cool.

LE

[herlock]

MFN was played, which wasn't on the DVD!    The original television programme was 2 hours long and last night's programme was 70 mins!   Obviously, something had to go and  SOS was too long!    Anyway I already transferred my VHS to DVD, but it would have been nice to have had a better recording.   

Thanks Superval ! It would be nice to see MFN, it don't think this version is available on Youtube.
I doubt, though, that it would be nearly as nice as the Montserrat version one year later, with Eric Clapton and Sting at the RAH - this one is an absolute killer for me !
Do you know what the hell they were thinking when they removed SoS and MFN from the DVD ?? Fear of competing with the "Live Aid" DVDs (released at the same time) which featured these two songs ? (awsome version of SoS with sax, so-so version of MFN with a less-than-inspired Sting)

[Love Expresso]

There was big talk about this decision when the release was made. I think the DVD had the focus on MK's solo stuff because  "A Night in London" was released in 1996 to push the Golden Heart album. So the decision to take off some older stuff is not too strange. Also I remember that it was said that Mark was not happy with Sultans from that night because of a mistake in the beginning.. I could have lived with that mistake on a DVD for sure.

I am eagerly waiting for part 3/4 and 4/4 on YouTube from the documentary right now...   

LE

[herlock]

There was big talk about this decision when the release was made. I think the DVD had the focus on MK's solo stuff because  "A Night in London" was released in 1996 to push the Golden Heart album. So the decision to take off some older stuff is not too strange. Also I remember that it was said that Mark was not happy with Sultans from that night because of a mistake in the beginning.. I could have lived with that mistake on a DVD for sure.

I am eagerly waiting for part 3/4 and 4/4 on YouTube from the documentary right now...   

LE

But what was released in 1996 was the VHS tape, -not- the DVD (it would take another 3 years at least for DVDs to come...), and the VHS tape *does* have MFN and SoS ! The DVD was released in 2004 - I really doubt it aimed at boosting the sales of an album released 8 years earlier, the thing to push at the time would have been Shangri-La...
Can't see any mistake at the beginning, but this would explain why Mark wanted it removed... anyway, the Live Aid version is awsome on DVD, don't you think ? not as good as Wembley 85, but still very nice. And all this mess on stage... these were the days

[herlock]

Arghh... Seems that part 3 of 4 was blocked on Youtube because copyrighted content from WMG. Damn... strange enough, parts 1 and 2 are not affected... any clue ?

[Justme]

Argh! That stupid music industry filter strikes again, I hate that! Perhaps streetfire.net or dailymotion.com is better for this purpose than youtube?

EDIT: By the way, many thanks to the uploader of course! I have been so annoyed by these stupid filters that I forgot to thank you.

[markknopflerfan1985]

I have just watched the first part.... Amazing,thank you very much for sharing! Can

[dmg]

It's amazing how the show completely omitted the LOG album when taking us through the DS catalogue.  It also skipped rather quickly through his solo career but the whole show could've lasted two hours as far as I was concerned.  In any event I thought it was a very good documentary, possibly the best ever;  I've never seen Mark as open regarding his family or early life before.

It would have topped it all off had they shown the Wembley '85 show afterwards instead of the rather depressing, uninspired "Later" show but c'est la vie.

[Dutchessy]

UK people can download it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xz0zx/Mark_Knopfler_A_Life_in_Songs/