Il grande Mark Knopfler oggi compie 68 anni. In suo onore vi posto il brano dei Dire Straits, Tunnell Of Love, con testo e video.
Mark Knopfler, leggendario chitarrista, cantante, compositore, leader dei Dire Straits, è nato a Glasgow (UK) il 12 agosto 1949.
In attività dal 1965, Mark Freuder Knopfler è uno dei più importanti chitarristi del rock, anche se definirei riduttivo inserirlo in un genere solo, perchè nella sua musica c’è blues, jazz, folk.
Straordinari e poetici sono i suoi testi, dove le persone umili, l’ amore, i problemi sociali vengono cantati dalla sua voce non dotata, ma capace di emozionare dando risalto ai temi dei suoi brani.
La sua tenica chitarrista, che non prevede l’ uso del plettro, è una caratteristica del suo sound.
Raggiunse la notorietà mondiale con i Dire Straits, esordendo con la bellissima canzone “Sultan of Swing“, autentico capolavoro rock che portò la band ai vertici delle classifiche mondiali.
Dopo lo scioglimento del gruppo nel 1995, Mark Knopfler ha proseguito come solista collaborando con artisti di tutto il mondo, mettendo al loro servizio la sua grande abilità musicale.
Per celebrare il suo 68° compleanno, ho pensato di postarvi la stupenda hit Tunnell of Love, contenuta nell’ album Making Movies del 1980, con testo e video.
Testo: Dire Straits – Tunnell Of Love
Getting crazy on the waltzers but it’s the life that I choose
Sing about the six blade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo
And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam
And I don’t know where I’ll be tonight but I’d always tell you where I am
In a screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light
She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night
I put my hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll
I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I’m just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
It’s just the danger when you’re riding at your own risk
She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let’s keep it like this
It’s just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say
Hey mister give me two give me two ‘cause any two can play
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I’m just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
Well it’s been money for muscle another whirligig
Money for muscle another girl I dig
Another hustle just to make it big
And rock away rock away
And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I’m just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
And now I’m searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
To rock away rock away from Cullercoats and Whitley bay out to rock away
And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
Like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
Girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
Like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
Video Youtube: Dire Straits – Tunnel Of Love
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