Title:
My life in Dire Straits / John Illsley.
ISBN:
9781635769159
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Edition:
First Diversion Books edition.
Publication Information:
United States : Diversion Books, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
xii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Mark Knopfler -- The heart of it -- Night flight to Luxembourg -- Banjos, beatings, and bass -- Girls and gigs -- Timber and tenements -- Mr. Knopfler, I presume? -- Punks on the lawn -- Five hundred pounds -- Panic in the shower -- Off with the heads -- Wolverhampton woe to marquee magic -- Sessions in the sun -- Into the blizzard -- The night at the Roxy -- Into the arena -- Grim fairy tale of New York -- The big wheel keeps on turning -- Electric power -- Brothers and souls -- Jerusalem syndrome -- Live Aid union -- New worlds -- What now? -- Here we go again -- When the music stops.
Summary:
Starting with his own unlikely beginnings in Middle England, John Illsley recounts the rise of Dire Straits from humble origins in London's spit-and-sawdust pubs to the best-known venues in the world, the working men's clubs to Madison Square Garden, sharing gigs with wild punk bands to the Live Aid stage at Wembley until, ultimately, the shattering demands of touring on a global scale and living life in the spotlight took their inevitable toll.
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OCLC Number:
on1275441578
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