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"Once I’ve played those four notes, then I can start to improvise”: Mark Knopfler on the Dire Straits song he's come to accept that he has to start in the same way every time

Monday August 11, 2025. 06:39 PM , from Keyboard Magazine
'People have bought tickets,' he says
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