Teenage Cancer Trust /Buddy Holly Fundation charity project

[holaknopfler]

Wow, so much hate thrown at my husband. I hope the rest of the AMT people enjoy the new track, and as another poster pointed out, for a very worthy cause.

Most certainly, absolutely no hate. He’s done a great job for a great cause. Some people will find anything to moan about. Something like little birds who can’t get enough food to eat.

[Robson]

When the box appears, I will definitely order and buy it.

https://markknopflersguitarheroes.tmstor.es/
pls order ;-)

  Thank you

[Love Expresso]

Me wants the vinyl 

LE

[hunter v2.0]

Wow, very cool! I'm not disappointed as I never had a clue in the first place whether it was going to be one track or a full album. Given the amount of artists, a full album would have been too much to handle anyway. Great initiative by Mark and Guy.

But why Local Hero, I wonder? (Or even a song of Mark's for that matter?) At any rate I am really curious as to how they have arranged everything. The whole thing on repeat for 9 minutes? Or changing dynamics?

[JF]

did you notice that in the "video" snippet, the pic shows Rudy's Music Shop, while the "official" cover sleeve is Hank's shop in London

maybe Rudy's music shop is for Teenage Cancer America, and Hank's Shop for TCT (which is english, right ?)

[dustyvalentino]

One time I was looking in the window at Hank's and Leo Sayer was doing the same.

Some sort of film crew came along and Leo started speaking to them to try to get involved with the filming.

They didn't get him involved in the filming.

[quizzaciously]

Imagine how much microphone movement is involved when recording 60 guitar players. No wonder it took a whole 2 years

[JF]

Imagine how much microphone movement is involved when recording 60 guitar players. No wonder it took a whole 2 years

 

[dmg]

Too many cooks spoils the broth.  If it wasn't for a worthy cause I'd probably pass on this as I'm never keen on these multi-artist things and also out of protest.  Also not sure I'll retain concentration for a full 9 mins.  Totally underwhelming after being well and truly led down the garden path, pictures and signed guitar et al.

Good thing is it's a nice legacy for Mark and my cynical mind says it gets him in the news in time for the new album release.

[TJ]

Sorry, but I honestly laughed out loud when I saw it's just the one song.

[El Macho]

We had a hint with the lot 123 at Christie's auction. Mark's signature is followed by "Going home" !

[dustyvalentino]

Good thing is it's a nice legacy for Mark and my cynical mind says it gets him in the news in time for the new album release.

This is harsh IMO. It's taken him years to get it together, he's given up loads of expensive studio time for free as well and now he is promoting it on behalf of the charity. It makes sense all round for him to merge all three projects (auction/album/charity single) around the same time period, especially considering his age and possible health issues.

[Billy’s Tune]

A shame John Illsley isn’t on it, after all he was on the original.

[Dutchessy]

Reading this, it seems like Bruce is on the same track with Sam, Sting and Mark, and lots of others too, I wonder if there are several songs by individual artists and a group song with lots of them It will be interesting to know if this is a new MK song or a Buddy Holly song? Buddy Holly songs are not that long though.


https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/18625548/sam-fender-bruce-springsteen-charity-track/

The signs were there in 2022 already. Sam Fender (and others) recorded a charity single(!!)... and we kept expecting a whole album haha.

[quizzaciously]

A shame John Illsley isn’t on it, after all he was on the original.

No Tommy Emmanuel either, though he loves to participate in projects like this. Apparently, Tommy's not one of Mark's guitar heroes, but Tony Iommi and Ringo Starr are.

Again, Mark's way...