{"id":3569,"date":"2013-09-17T04:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T04:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/mark-knopfler-signs-a-worldwide-deal-with-universal-music-group\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T04:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T04:40:39","slug":"mark-knopfler-signs-a-worldwide-deal-with-universal-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/mark-knopfler-signs-a-worldwide-deal-with-universal-music-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Knopfler Signs A Worldwide Deal With Universal Music Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/12\/Markknopfler20061.jpg\/220px-Markknopfler20061.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"104\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>Universal Music Group announces a worldwide deal  with legendary musician and songwriter Mark Knopfler. Knopfler&#8217;s new  record Privateering will debut on UMG&#8217;s Verve Records on September 10  (globally) after a 35 year relationship with Warner Brother Records.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> Max Hole, Chairman and CEO UMG International comments, &#8220;Mark has long  been one of the most innovative and successful artists in music and  we&#8217;re thrilled he&#8217;s decided to sign to Verve so that we are now working  with him everywhere across the world.&#8221; The new music is Knopfler&#8217;s first  double album of new music in his entire recording career. &#8220;The older I  get, the more I want to write,&#8221; Knopfler notes. &#8220;I&#8217;m enjoying the  process more than ever, writing, recording and playing live, I enjoy all  of it. I&#8217;m almost tripping over songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Recorded at Knopfler&#8217;s award-winning British Grove Studios in West  London,Privateering is a collection of tough tales of real people,  living hard lives in difficult times. The record features musicians  Knopfler has been working with for years &#8211; Guy Fletcher (keyboards),  Richard Bennett (guitar), Jim Cox (piano), Glenn Worf (bass), Mike  McGoldrick (whistle and flute), John McCusker (fiddle) and the recent  addition of Ian Thomas (drums). Special guests include Paul Franklin  (pedal steel), Kim Wilson, (harmonica), Tim O&#8217;Brien (mandolin), and  rising singing star Ruth Moody, who is also a member of the leading  roots group The Wailin&#8217; Jennys.<\/p>\n<p> Of the new release, Knopfler explains, &#8220;I chose to make a double album  this time just because of the sheer volume of material. I didn&#8217;t want to  separate songs into genres and I didn&#8217;t want to leave too many songs on  the shelf. I just wanted it to be a reflection of the fantastic  sessions we had. With a great bunch of players, it&#8217;s the same as a great  group of actors reading a script from the page, the thing can come  alive in ways it just never has before. This is the band I have been  working towards my whole life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> A multiple Grammy award winner as the lead singer\/songwriter for Dire  Straits, Knopfler combined his wry lyrics with his guitar prowess to  create such major hits as &#8220;Money For Nothing,&#8221; &#8220;Sultans Of Swing,&#8221;  &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221; and &#8220;Walk of Life.&#8221; He has collaborated with artists  such as Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Emmylou Harris and Van Morrison, as  well as scoring several films including Cal, Local Hero, Princess Bride  and A Shot at Glory.<\/p>\n<p> New album privateering to be released via Verve Records September 10, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: Universal Music<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Universal Music Group announces a worldwide deal with legendary musician and songwriter Mark Knopfler&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}