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Mark Knopfler

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mark Knopfler – born in Glasgow, Scotland on August 12, 1949 – is best known as the founder and leader of British rock band Dire Straits. The son of an English mother and a Hungarian Jewish refugee father, Mark Knopfler spent his early years in Scotland before his family moved to Blyth in the northeast of England. Inspired by Shadows' guitarist Hank Marvin, he took up guitar and joined various school bands before training as a journalist, a career he abandoned to commit to music. He played guitar with groups such as Café Racer and Brewers Droop, ...