He turned up outside the studio one day with a little keyboard under his arm and said ‘Hello’, and we just got started on the Cal soundtrack. Speaking of Guy in an interview Mark said: “Yeah, well Guy Fletcher’s been on everything I’ve done since Cal really, which was when I met him. Guy provided keyboards for Mark Knopfler’s Golden Heart solo album and subsequent promotional tour. More recently, Guy has toured with Jimmy Nail and has also worked with Tina Turner, Aztec Camera, Chet Atkins, Wille De Ville and Randy Newman. Guy was also on television when Ferry performed on the Danny Baker Show which featured Ferry and his touring band playing, amongst others, the hit Jealous Guy. So Guy opted for the Ferry project and went on tour once more with Roxy Music in 1994/5. The next newsletter, four months later, explained how the Daltry tour was being pushed back so far that it ended up overlapping with the Ferry rehearsals. After the tour Mark and Guy waded through the tapes of the concerts that had been recorded and the final outcome was the 1993 live On The Night album, which Mark and Guy co-produced, Guy also working on the post-production.Ī while after the OES tour a Dire Straits Information Service newsletter reported that Guy was possibly going on tour with Roger Daltry and afterwards was to team-up again with old chum Bryan Ferry. The following OES tour was large, even by Dire Straits’ standards. In 1991 Mark re-called John Illsley, along with Guy and Alan Clark, to put together a new set of songs for the Dire Straits On Every Street album. This culminated in the Neck and Neck album of 1990 on which Guy was not only credited with playing keyboards, but also bass, drums, and as recording engineer in the studios at Nashville and London. During this time Mark was also picking with Chet Atkins whom he had admired for a long time. What started as a small tour to promote the album quickly escalated into a much larger tour than anyone had anticipated. So began the collaboration which led to the formation of the Notting Hillbillies. Mark was originally to produce an album for long time friends Steve Phillips and Brendan Croker and called on Guy to help with the technical side of production. Guy performed on, and co-produced with Mark, the Notting Hillbillies 1990 album Missing….Presumed Having a Good Time.
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Guy collaborated with Mark’s old pal Brendan Croker to produce music for the Granada TV series On The Big Hill and is also credited on Brendan’s Brendan Croker and the 5 O’Clock Shadows album of 1989 “for services beyond the call of duty.”
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Dire Straits came together again to headline the 1988 70th Birthday Concert for Nelson Mandela when Eric Clapton, a ” tricky little inside left”, stood in for Jack Sonni on second guitar. Dire Straits embarked upon the enormous BIA world tour of 1985/86 which touched almost every corner of the globe but still found time to perform on-stage at Wembley for Live Aid in ’85.
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Recognising his great talent, Mark invited Guy to join Dire Straits as a full time band member for the recording of the Brothers In Arms album, the phenomenal success of which is now well documented. Further soundtrack work has included Metroland and Wag The Dog both of 1998.
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Two years later, Guy performed on Last Exit To Brooklyn. This was followed by The Princess Bride soundtrack of 1987. Guy first met Mark Knopfler in 1983 when they worked together on the recording of the Cal and the Comfort and Joy soundtracks released in 1984. Eventually coming to the attention of Bryan Ferry, Guy joined Roxy Music for their 1981 Avalon tour.
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He became involved in studio engineering in the 1970s and also began to develop his skills on the keyboard. Among his early musical influences were The Beatles and Deep Purple. Guy Fletcher was born into a musical family on 24th May, 1960, in Maidstone, Kent.