Bad news...
I remember recently watching a video from a Willy de ville concert, playing "Storybook love" live, and introducing the song with not very kind word to Knopfler. I recall him telling he was now "nobody" and before he was "money for nothing and chicks for free"
I found that video
It seems that the Miracle sessions were very very difficult to him and he never was happy with that, I recall reading a story about him singing just for fun "Material girl" by Madonna, and Knopfler going crazy "You have to record that" and Willy told him something like "Leave me alone, I wanna make my damn record"
There is a video from that period, with subtitles in french, which shows MK with Willy
