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I had the opportunity of talking to Keith Richards once and he joked how he still couldn’t play Scotty Moore’s solo on I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone. I think it was all recorded in a day or two. I mean they (the songs) are very short but beautifully constructed. Go and listen to the very first album he did when he was _ Oh my God_ around 18 or something. We are talking about the time when the Sun Sessions came out around 1955-56. Somebody was able to write things for Elvis which excited people much more than anything else that was going on around them. I think Elvis touched an awful lot of people quite quickly because I don’t think anybody had seen anything like what Elvis was doing. Years later, Dire Straits would come out with the song, Calling Elvis, one of the most heartfelt and innocent tributes ever. You write, “… the music went deep and stayed deep, and lodged in there for good”. In Mark we have somebody who could tell a good story.Īmong some of the memorable lines in your book is the description of what music meant to you when you were young. I think they’re the ones that tell the story best of all. I have followed Bob Dylan and people like Van Morrison when they first started because I love singer-songwriters. It’s lovely when everybody comes on the same journey with you because I have done that with other musicians and artistes myself. Things happen in life, and some people move on. Mark (Knopfler) and I were there from the beginning. So they have kind of like grown up with the music with the ever-changing people in the band. And those people in their 70s have been listening to the band pretty much ever since it started.
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It’s interesting because when I do shows now, the audience is full of all different ages, from sort of teenagers up to my age. Our musical tastes developed in sync with Dire Straits albums, growing as your music evolved. By the time it reached us we were in senior school or college. First album, 1978, we were in Class VIII. I also realised that for us music lovers born in the mid-60s in Calcutta, India, and fortunate enough to have been born in houses with a record player, Dire Straits was a band we literally grew up with. It’s about the music more than anything else and about the people who made that music. I think that for a lot of people who’ve been on that journey with us with the music, the concerts, the book would help them solidify some ideas about what it’s like from our point of view to do that.
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I am very proud of what we achieved and I think it needed writing down. What did it mean to me? What did it mean to other people? It’s (the book) a kind of celebration… of those incredible 16-17 years. It was interesting to go back and think about those days.
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I found that once I started talking about it, it started to flow and I managed to get it down in some kind of order. I did have to check a few dates and names.
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It’s quite difficult to get the right tone with some of these things, and I had to go back quite a long way to get my memory working again. John Illsley: I am very pleased you enjoyed it. Great fun to read, and it is very well written.
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In an interview with The Telegraph Online all the way from UK, Illsley talks about the music of the time, their incredible journey, the highs and the lows, and why, as Mark Knopfler says in a succinct foreword to the book, they were lucky not to have been teenagers when confronted with the professional music game. Several misadventures later Illsley finds himself in London only to become friends with the guys who would soon become Dire Straits, the name that we also discover is anecdotally connected to Lindisfarne, a popular UK rock band of the time. Put it back on please,” he told the surgeon who said he wasn’t sure whether to take it off or sew it back on. But not before starting off as a bank clerk and then moving to a new job at a soup factory where one day he found his right thumb hanging off just below the nail after a cleaning accident _ ‘I am a guitar player.
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At 72 Illsley, the band’s bassist and the only other founding member after Mark to stay the full 15-year course, recounts with understated humour and heartfelt love, their friendship, their ambitions, the discipline with which they went about things, and above all, the many people that crossed their paths and helped them achieve the pinnacle of success.Ībout his early beginnings in Middle England, Illsley writes: “…this is the world that shaped who I became, a small world that brought great comfort and security but a world that made me yearn for the distant shores of somewhere way more exotic.” That dream was fulfilled.