Oct 05. In the studio with Mark Knopflerhttp://www.inthestudio.net/index.asp (preview)
Featured Interview: Mark Knopfler
Redbeard: I was going to ask you about your thoughts of Michael Jackson and his career and his passing. Because you and I had talked at length about how you observed Elvis Presley, not only as a kid, but then as a professional musician.
Mark Knopfler: Well, it's just, they're just beautiful young people that get involved in the music business as well as they are getting involved in music. Ya know when you're getting involved in music, that's all very well, but you have to get involved in the music business too and they're two separate things. As Elvis found out. And of course with Elvis as well there was the movie business, and the movies that he loved. And the music, movie business which I'm sure he was kept at arms length from. And so when you get a beautiful young person who can sing and dance at the same time, which is a clever trick if you can do it, it's going to cause a little bit of a fuss, and especially when they're so young as Michael Jackson was. But then ya know when kids are de ified, and when kids are worshiped, it's not a healthy thing and it leaves its mark on any kid that's been worshiped, mass worshipped that way. Not worshipped by parents, ya know, which of course all children should be, but kids that have been involved in all this mess, ya know they're either movie stars, child stars, child singers, or child actors . there's always a price.
