Mark Knopfler - A truly very great local hero on guitar

1983 büchste guitar virtuoso Mark Knopfler for the first time from his current lifestyle of line, and produced more or less single-handedly, the music for the film - Local Hero - the Scottish director Bill Forsyth. For this he mixed, in total contrast to its common band Dire Straits, Irish and Scottish folk music, New Age elements, country, Softjazz- and square dance music, as well as his usual warm melodies at a very diverse soundtrack together, in which for the first time a incredibly beautiful, but always musically differently interpreted melody like a red thread through the whole album draws.

These 14 very different pieces that the quiet moments of the film come enormously to bear especially in the wide landscape shots, and were a major reason that this for me but rather something inconsequential acting British comedy in the end a very big box office success was still , Unlike the film, which has been forgotten for a long time, heard the immortal melody of "local heroes" - Going Home - even today in many concerts Knopfler as dignified and anthemic finale concert.

With - Local Hero - Mark Knopfler has not only laid the musical foundations for his later solo career, but at the same time also very clearly proved that he can do much more to play than just commercial and radio-friendly rock songs.