It was quite something special to be in Mark Knopfler’s studio and talk with him about wonderfully evocative memories such as plugging his first electric guitar into a radio and blowing its amp! Plus, childhood memories of songs such as The Big Top Candy Mountain, the electrifying joy of seeing at the age of fifteen, Chuck Berry, “playing his guitar and doing the duck walk,” his “pilgrimage” to the USA to see the places Blind Willie McTell had lived and played, his love for The Shadows, specifically the lead playing of Hank Marvin, and how all this, and so much more fed into his own art. He also talks about the roots of songs such as Money for Nothing, and the phenomenally popular album Sultans of Swing. To end, Mark Knopfler talks about his latest album at the time, Sailing to Philadelphia. Heaven for musos! He even talks about working with the enigmatic Scott Walker!