23 years since Mark Knopfler's accident, today.

[Brunno Nunes]

🔴 MARCH 8 2003

Mark Knopfler was injured when the Honda motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a Fiat Punto car. The 53-year-old singer and guitarist suffered a broken collar bone and six broken ribs in the accident which happened in London's smart Belgravia district in mid-morning traffic.

This unfortunate accident changed the course of things, the RPD Tour 2003 was cancelled and it seems that Mark never returned to his former guitar performance, although, up until the 2006 tour, he still easily impressed me on the guitar. Did this accident significantly affect his playing?

Anyway, 23 years have passed... Time flies.

[herlock]

Listening to Telegraph Road from Lyon 2005, I don't have the impression that this accident affected his playing... Not negatively, at least...

[Brunno Nunes]

I've come across some debates about whether the accident affected his playing in a negative way. In the medium term, it seems to me that he significantly lost some of his performance, this was evident on the 2008 tour, from then on he fluctuated, but never again reached the level he had until 2003. 2005, there was still notable energy in his playing, "nervous" and tasty licks, for me, the best tones of Sultans of Swing and TR from his solo career, returning to using the Fender Stratocaster, Boom Like That was his last great foray into a melancholic rocker sound, for me, these are three great highlights of 2005 live.

[quizzaciously]

Mark had problems with migrants in London long before it became mainstream.

[Rolo]

Every guitar player always try to get evolve as a player. Every time.
Sometimes it's about technique, sometimes is about like a 'all-wrong' and then a crysis about themselves.

Mark, as MANY others, maybe have been tired of his own licks and phrasing from a long time. I don't think that the his accident affected his playing. He was great in 2005 and absolutely flawless in 2011.

I think that the relashionship between Mark and his guitar player efforts fell off hugely. Which is normal for a any musician. He loves the guitar. However, he got a different perspective about the instument nowadays.

Robben Ford changed his playing on a drastic way between his album Truth (2007) and Bring It Back Home (2009). Then he changed all again since his new instrumental records.

And I am not talking about Jeff Beck.

[rmarques821]

🔴 MARCH 8 2003

Mark Knopfler was injured when the Honda motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a Fiat Punto car. The 53-year-old singer and guitarist suffered a broken collar bone and six broken ribs in the accident which happened in London's smart Belgravia district in mid-morning traffic.

This unfortunate accident changed the course of things, the RPD Tour 2003 was cancelled and it seems that Mark never returned to his former guitar performance, although, up until the 2006 tour, he still easily impressed me on the guitar. Did this accident significantly affect his playing?

Anyway, 23 years have passed... Time flies.

No. I think his playing was always going to change even if he hadn't had the accident. He was already writing different kinds of songs by then.

[Banjo99uk]

I wonder if his clear mobility issues are a result of the accident.

[Pottel]

Mark had problems with migrants in London long before it became mainstream.

this misses an ironic smiley!

[Pottel]

I wonder if his clear mobility issues are a result of the accident.

2nd that

[ds1984]

Well you forgot Saturday 25th October 1986 when Mark broke his collarbone after crashing in a celebrity car race before the Australian Grand Prix.

So, to take on uncle's Ed view, we are speaking about things we are not fully informed about.

[wayaman]

I wonder if his clear mobility issues are a result of the accident.

The accident was in 2003, since then me made several tours in which he was in a great physical shape, 2005, 2006, 2008, then in 2010 he has some back issues and turned to good shape in 2013 and 2015 and then something happened in 2019.

Many many years later than the car accident and with plenty of in good shape tours in the middle.

[Robson]

...and then something happened in 2019"

I don't want to talk about MK's health. These are too personal topics but it's no secret that he got seriously ill twice with covid.

[wayaman]

...and then something happened in 2019"

I don't want to talk about MK's health. These are too personal topics but it's no secret that he got seriously ill twice with covid.

COVID was in 2020, so whatever happened to him in 2019 was before COVID.

[ds1984]

Every issue Mark got with his health are not public domain.

We know two of them only and we are speculating based on one of these two.

[Banjo99uk]

I wonder if his clear mobility issues are a result of the accident.

The accident was in 2003, since then me made several tours in which he was in a great physical shape, 2005, 2006, 2008, then in 2010 he has some back issues and turned to good shape in 2013 and 2015 and then something happened in 2019.

Many many years later than the car accident and with plenty of in good shape tours in the middle.

Injuries that he seemed to sustained can come back to haunt you in later years unfortunately.