Director: Bob Smeaton
Year: 2010
Runtime: 60 min
Language: English
A Life in Songs [...] is a documentary which takes a meandering look at Knopfler’s career, from his beginnings in the north-East of England to global superstardom in the mid-80s. Using a mixture of archive performance footage and intimate interviews with the man himself, it shows us how Dire Straits was forged in the late 1970s on the back of a handful of demo songs (one of which was Sultans of Swing), and how his own distinctive bluesy guitar-playing and drawling vocal style matured. The programme also touches on his second career as a producer and composer of film scores (he wrote the soundtrack for Local Hero and The Princess Bride, among others).
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