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Happy 69th Birthday, Mark Knopfler! 🎸 (Original Post)
Heartstrings
Aug 2018
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MontanaMama
(24,087 posts)1. Happy Birthday!
Listened to Brothers In Arms just last night while watching the meteor showers. Lovely.
LakeArenal
(29,855 posts)2. One hell of a musician. 🎂 🥂 🎸
CatMor
(6,212 posts)3. Happy Birthday!!!
one of my favorites.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)4. 69?????
Jesus...where does the time go...
So easy to get lost in his music.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)5. Nice, thanks for posting
Back in a golden age of friendships, one of the guys I jammed with would play that song. I miss those days and that friend and get misty every time I hear this song.
ProfessorGAC
(70,625 posts)6. A Day The Music Died
When Mark bought that crappy distortion box.
He lost his singular voice and that tone was rotten
LakeArenal
(29,855 posts)7. So, you're saying you don't wish a happy birthday?
Or just being a buzz kill.
ProfessorGAC
(70,625 posts)11. Both!
He's a "me, me, me" punk
Has been so for 25 years
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)13. So name me one musician, with similar talent, who isn't?
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)8. Really?
What an odd remark to a birthday post.
ProfessorGAC
(70,625 posts)10. Ok
I was a big fan before he did that and kicked his own brother out of the band
That all seemed very Republican to me!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)12. Now that's just funny,
seeings how he's a Scottish born Brit.....
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)9. Happy Happy Birthday!!
You made it another year! Well done so far. Bravo.