This was like a gift from heaven. It’s getting harder and harder to come up with bands or acts I haven’t had on this feature, so I was glad to have this one dropped on me, so to speak. I was listening to my favorite internet radio station, Absolute Classic Rock out of London. As an aside, I highly recommend it, particularly the Ronnie Wood (yes, that Ronnie Wood) show. Anyway, this was not the Ronnie Wood show, but the disk jockey had former Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark on, and it struck me that Dire Straits has, to the best of my ever fading recollection, never made an appearance hereabouts. Clark, by the way, has formed a band called Straits, which includes many former members of the band, except the central figure, Mark Knopfler. He spent most of the interview having to restrain himself from venting about Knopfler’s refusal to join the reunion circuit, but let us let that pass.
Now, I actually wanted to break one of my rules for this one, and play the original MTV video, which seemed only appropriate, but if it’s on youtube at all it doesn’t make it to the first page of search results, so being a lazy guy, I decided to go with this version, which features a guest appearance from Sting, whining for his MTV. Personally, I think this is one of the cleverest songs ever written.
Hold on, I found it, the original video that played so heavily on MTV back when they actually played music videos. At least I’m pretty sure this is it. It’s only been about 30 years since I’ve last seen it.
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