Mason/ Dixon sighting

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http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=48165

Off the Straits and narrow
"As well as giving up the cigarettes, Mark Knopfler has had his fill of
playing giant stadiums with that icon of Eighties excess, Dire Straits. His
new solo album even has a song inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel (...)"



----- Original Message -----
From: A. Scott Chesnick- <chesnics at zeus.nhlbi.nih.gov>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:41 PM
Subject: Mason/ Dixon sighting


>
> Hello - I thought this may be of interest.
>  There was an odd mention of Pynchon and" Mason and Dixon"
> this morning's  NPR Morning Edition show
> Host Bob talks with guitarist and singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler   about
his new
> album, "Sailing to Philadelphia." Its Knopfler's C-D in his solo career.
In the 70s
> and 80s he was the front man of the band Dire Straits, best known for his
songs
> "Sultan's of Swing" and "Money for Nothing."
>  His latest CD and song by the same title he sings with James Taylor
> "Sailing to Philadelphia" was based upon his reading of Pynchon's Mason
Dixon at the
> time.
> Dowloads avaialble clip
> http://www.mark-knopfler.com/main.htm
>
> And so it goes...
> Scott Chesnick
> NIH
> Bethesda, Md
>