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Given his success, it’s easy to assume that all the sidesteps are part of a strategy designed to keep his creative instincts alive-and keep fans hungry for the next Dire Straits album.
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Rather than rush out Dire Straits albums on a regular schedule, the singer-guitarist has often taken sidesteps into other projects that, while interesting on an artistic level, certainly don’t offer the commercial rewards of another Dire Straits package.Īmong the sidesteps just since the last Dire Straits tour ended in 1986: He produced an album for Willy DeVille, wrote the scores for two films (“The Princess Bride” and “Last Exit to Brooklyn”), toured as a member of Eric Clapton’s band and worked on a duet album with guitarist Chet Atkins.Īmong his earlier outside projects: producing albums or tracks for such varied artists as Bob Dylan and Tina Turner, as well as writing and performing the scores for the films “Cal” and “Local Hero.” By nature, the Englishman is a somewhat retiring, self-effacing man who was mature enough by the time he had his first hit (he was 29) that he was never seduced by the cult of personality so rampant in the rock world.
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Knopfler’s relative low profile in rock and his slow pace with Dire Straits are no accident. One remarkable thing about the sales figure is that Dire Straits had sold almost 40 million of those records before “Brothers in Arms,” the 1985 blockbuster that spawned “Money for Nothing,” the satirical hit single about rock stars’ getting “money for nothin’ and chicks for free.”Ī second remarkable thing about Knopfler’s success is that five years have gone by without another Dire Straits album-a lapse that flies in the face of the old pop rule about striking while the sales chart is hot.