Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler – review

Arena, ManchesterQuite why the former Dire Straits frontman and the 20th century pop colossus who only last week added runner-up in the Nobel prize for literature to his accolades are touring together is, at first glance, a mystery.But their collaboration in fact stretches back to 1979, when Dylan caught Knopfler's fast-rising band live in Los Angeles and asked him to play guitar on Slow Train Coming.Four years later, Knopfler produced another Dylan album, Infidels, and played on the hallowed B...

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