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He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved with his family to Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid 1950s. He learned to play the guitar as a teenager, and after completing tertiary education and working for the Yorkshire Evening Post and then Loughton College, he became a full time musician in the 1970s. He is noted for being left-handed, but playing right-handed, and for fingerpicking instead of strumming or using a plectrum; fingerpicking is usually associated with the acoustic guitar, but Knopfler usually (but not always) plays an electric guitar, particularly the Fender Stratocaster.

Knopfler and his associated bands have sold over 100 million albums, and performed live to audiences totalling many millions. He has twin sons (Benji and Joseph, born 1987), and two daughters Isabella ( 1998) and Katya ( 2003); he holds a degree in EnglishIn literary criticism, the term English studies is occasionally used to refer to the critical study of English literature. The only thing distinguishing English studies from the broader category of academic literary criticism and literary theory is that i from Leeds University, and has been awarded an honorary music degree from Newcastle University.

1 Albums

• with Dire Straits
  • see list at Dire Straits
• solo
  • Golden Heart (1996)
  • Sailing to Philadelphia2000 albums 2001 albums Sailing to Philadelphia is an album by Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) released in 2000 on Mercury Records. Track listing #"What It Is" #"Sailing to Philadelphia" #"Who's your Baby Now" #"Baloney Again" #"The Last Laugh" #"Do Ameri ( 2000 in musicSee also 1999 in music, other events of 2000, 2001 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music' Events January 14 Rolling Stone magazine reveals that the two children of Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, were fathered by David)
  • The Ragpicker's Dream ( 2002 in musicSee also 2001 in music, other events of 2002, 2003 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music' Events April The White Stripes records Elephant which was released on April 1, 2002. April 23, 2002: Wilco's critically acclaimed fourth album, ")
  • Shangri LaShangri La is a 2004 album by Mark Knopfler. It continues his recent storytelling style of songwriting. Boom, Like That", which started receiving airplay in some areas of the US in September 2004, was inspired by Ray Kroc's autobiography "Grinding It Out" (2004)
• soundtrack
  • Local Hero
  • CalCal can mean multiple things: Cal is the nickname (short for California of the University of California, Berkeley, dating from the days when it was the only University of California campus (1868-1927), prior to the creation of UCLA. It is still frequently
  • The Princess Bride
  • Last Exit To Brooklyn
  • Metroland
  • Wag The Dog
  • A Shot at Glory
• others
  • Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time (Notting Hillbillies(The Band is with his friends))
  • Neck and Neck (with Chet Atkins)