Did Bruce Springsteen and Mr. Knopfler ever share a stage at some point ?

[2manyguitars]

Bruce is probably still pissed off that Mark nicked the melody from jungleland for r&j  😉

[JF]

Roy Bittan's interview circa 80-81 :


- JOURNALIST: “Romeo and Juliet” could have been on any Bruce album. Long and articulate stories reminiscent of “Incident on 57th Street” or “Spirit in the Night”

- ROY BITTAN: Yes there were a lot of similarities between them two at that time

[JF]

There is an 80s interview with MK and TBone Burnett where MK says he loves I’m On Fire.

Beyond My Wildest Dreams sounds like Bruce.

I love "I'm on fire". Mark has a very good taste 

the first line of Beyond My Wildest Dreams' verse is very similar to the one in "My hometown"

[quizzaciously]

I love when artists collaborate, it nearly always creates something way bigger than the sum of the parts. Pity artists barely collaborate, especially artists like Mark. If I were an artist, I would collaborate all the time with everybody. Only with collaboration power, we can get beautiful things like this:

[MagicElliott]

I love when artists collaborate, it nearly always creates something way bigger than the sum of the parts. Pity artists barely collaborate, especially artists like Mark. If I were an artist, I would collaborate all the time with everybody. Only with collaboration power, we can get beautiful things like this:

One of my colleagues went to see Ed Sheeran at Wembley Staudium and complained that Pavarotti came on part way through which was not what she paid to see…..until I told her that Pavarotti has died a number of years before and perhaps she meant Andrea Bocelli?!?

[dustyvalentino]

Ha!

[qjamesfloyd]

I found it sad that Mike Oldfield was once asked why he didn't collaborate much, and he replied, "no-one asks" If I was a musician I would ask him to contribute his wonderful guitar, or anything else. There is of course a lot more to it than his reply, knowing his history.

[quizzaciously]

I found it sad that Mike Oldfield was once asked why he didn't collaborate much, and he replied, "no-one asks" If I was a musician I would ask him to contribute his wonderful guitar, or anything else. There is of course a lot more to it than his reply, knowing his history.

That's pretty understandable. I think you need to be a real snob to "force" collaborations, it usually happens almost by accident. And people who can theoretically "hire" Mike Oldfield as a duo partner, I think have a broad choice anyway.

I think Mark gets asked for collaborations a lot and unfortunately too often can't say "no" and we have a decent amount of "collaborations" where Mark's contribution was just to slap his recognisable name on someone else's record.

[dustyvalentino]

MK has collaborated a LOT over the years.

Jbaent put together a massive Spotify playlist of all the collaborations and he did a lot of live collaborations as well.