{"id":29417,"date":"2024-05-01T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/mark-knopfler-reveals-he-almost-made-an-album-with-jeff-beck\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:02:53","slug":"mark-knopfler-reveals-he-almost-made-an-album-with-jeff-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/mark-knopfler-reveals-he-almost-made-an-album-with-jeff-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Knopfler reveals he almost made an album with Jeff Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-01\/Getty_MarkKnopfler_050124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mairo Cinquetti\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Mark Knopfler<\/strong> reveals in a new interview that he and the late guitarist\u00a0<strong>Jeff Beck<\/strong> almost made an album together.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He shared the news while talking to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarplayer.com\/news\/mark-knopfler-jeff-beck-collaborative-album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Guitar Player<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">magazine about his recent charity single <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which features a contribution from Beck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Knopfler calls Jeff\u2019s playing on the track &#8220;beautiful,&#8221; noting, \u201cJeff was just something other, y\u2019know?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn fact, we\u2019d just begun some talks, through management, about doing an album together,&#8221; he added.\u00a0&#8220;I\u2019m really sorry we didn\u2019t get to work together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beck&#8217;s contribution to <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0was\u00a0said to be his final recording before his death in January 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0was released in March and raised money for the U.K.&#8217;s Teenage Cancer Trust and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1 s2\">Teen Cancer America<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. In addition to Beck, it featured contributions from more than 60 artists, including\u00a0<strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong> and <strong>Roger Daltrey<\/strong>, <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Peter Frampton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Queen<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Brian May<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Rush<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Alex Lifeson <\/strong>and<strong> Ringo Starr<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mairo Cinquetti\/NurPhoto via Getty Images Mark Knopfler reveals in a new interview that he and the late guitarist\u00a0Jeff Beck almost made an album together.\u00a0 He shared the news while talking to Guitar Player magazine about his recent charity single Going Home (Theme From Local Hero), which features a contribution from<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/mark-knopfler-reveals-he-almost-made-an-album-with-jeff-beck\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}