Mark Knopfler

Mark and @EmmylouSongbird performing 'Red Dirt Girl', taken from the Real Live Roadrunning a concert film recorded live on 28th June 2006 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Watch the complete performance on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=dCiRap…

The official Shangri-La documentary accompanied the release of Mark's fourth solo studio album in 2004. Here Mark talks about how his songwriting and invitation to work at Shangri-La studio in Malibu brought the record together. Listen to the album: markknopfler.lnk.to/Shangri-La

Mark and his band performing 'Get Lucky' live on the French TV Show Taratata in October 2009, featuring Danny Thompson on bass. See the full performance on YouTube now: youtu.be/a9P_h3azE2k

The Notting Hillbillies performing 'The Next Time I'm In Town' live at The Late Show broadcast in March 1990. Watch the complete performance: youtu.be/3mDva-Hsu-o

Mark and Chuck Ainlay continue their detailed tour of British Grove Studios, including the versatile, double-height, live room in Studio 1. Watch the complete studio tour on YouTube, recorded around the release of Mark's 2009 album Get Lucky: youtu.be/_kpskHaVnVw

Mark in Newcastle at the launch of the all-star recording of 'Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)', released in 2024 to support @TeenageCancer and @TeenCancerUSA. Listen back to the track here: youtube.com/watch?v=kNKvoV… Photo by Simon Godsave

Watch: Mark performing 'Rüdiger' - the third single from his 1996 debut solo album Golden Heart, on German TV show Geld oder Liebe. See the full performance: youtu.be/HFnIgP4Hgwc

But it's written in the starlight And every line in your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms

Watch: Mark Knopfler and band performing 'Let It All Go' from his album Kill To Get Crimson at the AVO Session in Basel, Switzerland on the 12th November, 2007.

Mark and Emmylou Harris performing 'Red Staggerwing', taken from Real Live Roadrunning - a concert film recorded live on 28th June 2006 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Watch the complete performance on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=dCiRap…

Mark performing 'Money For Nothing' alongside Eric Clapton and an all star band at The Prince's Trust Rock Gala in 1988. Watch the complete performance on YouTube now: youtu.be/sVXFWME063c

Mark Knopfler performs with his 1982 Schecter Telecaster on the Shangri-La Tour in 2005. Photo by Theo Wargo

Originally broadcast on NRK1 TV in Norway on 3rd November 2000 as part of a special feature titled 'A Meeting In Holland Park', Mark speaks about key figures that formed the soundtrack of his life.

Watch: Mark performing 'True Love Will Never Fade' from his solo album Kill To Get Crimson at the AVO Session in Basel, Switzerland on the 12th November, 2007. See the complete performance on YouTube: youtu.be/3cOmNY0tgmQ

Mark speaking about his experience working with Steely Dan on their Gaucho album during a Channel 4 interview originally titled 'The Other Side of the Tracks', broadcast in April 1984.

Mark pictured in the studio playing a Gibson ES-5 as he trials guitars during a recording session for Down The Road Wherever. Also pictured: an orange Gretsch 6120, a green Gretsch 6196 and two Guild guitars.

The band line-up Mark enlisted to record his 2004 solo studio album, Shangri-La, came to be affectionately known amongst fans as the '96ers'. Listen to the album: markknopfler.lnk.to/Shangri-La

Mark playing the 'Mark Knopfler Special' guitar, later called the Pensa-Suhr MK1, during Eric Clapton's 1987 tour.

Mark on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine's November 1985 issue.

Mark photographed at soundcheck with the Notting Hillbillies in 1990.