I started three years of teaching and also started writing songs. He got the job and said of it, “That was fantastic for me because it earned me more money than I’ve ever earned in my life and I could afford to get a motorcycle and then bought my dad’s old car. He also had a piano which he played boogie-woogie on and when I first heard it, which was three chords, I could really understand and I thought this is it for me.”Īs soon as Mark completed his education he headed for the music world, “The day I finished University I got a copy of Melody Maker,” he said, “and found the biggest ad for a guitar player and went to London the day after for an audition which I passed and I was hired by this band called Brewer’s Droop and we were promised £25 a week, which never actually materialised, but they were on their last legs so that only lasted two months and then I was back up north and out of work.” A friend’s mother heard of a vacancy for a college lecturer and suggested Mark apply. Kingsley had a harmonica and a banjo and he played Runaway Train for me on the harmonica and I was hooked. When asked on the Michael Parkinson show who his music heroes were, Mark replied, “Elvis Presley and my uncle Kingsley. Mark eventually followed in his mother’s footsteps by becoming a teacher. Three years after Mark was born, his mother had another son, David and the family moved to Northumberland in the mid-fifties. Mark Knopfler was born in Glasgow in 1949, his father was a Hungarian-Jew and his mother was English.
He just borrowed Willy’s names to tell the story of his own relationship breakdown.
It’s fair to say that the Bard wrote in a conventional style often using drawn out metaphors that anyone copying or trying to replicate would may well struggle with, but that was not Mark Knopfler’s intention when writing the 1980 hit Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? A famous line from the pen of William Shakespeare.
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