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Mark Knopfler – One More Matinee Lyrics	17 years ago
I can't help thinking of Christopher Biggins when I hear this song, oh for the days of panto dames !!!

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Mark Knopfler – Sucker Row Lyrics	17 years ago
Early Vegas there are lot of gambling and Western references through the whole album

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Mark Knopfler – Silvertown Blues Lyrics	17 years ago
I'm actually thinking it is a song that shows the disgraceful waste of money that was the millenium dome and how a wealthy area such as Canary wharf is right next to tower hamlets./ It highlights the paradox of this.

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Mark Knopfler – Do America Lyrics	17 years ago
Easy this one, it is about the rise of manufactured boy bands. I like the reference to Birmingham and Bristol which relates to daytime BBC shows which the boy bands always appeared on first.

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Mark Knopfler – Baloney Again Lyrics	17 years ago
Inspired by an old black guy who Mark knew who explained that touring the Southern states in a choir required a certain sacrifise to apartheid

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Mark Knopfler – 5.15 A.M. Lyrics	17 years ago
I think it follows most of the album regarding gambling and neferious activity. Most of Shangri La has a West Coast feel though this is clearly about up north

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Dire Straits – Heavy Fuel Lyrics	17 years ago
It is actually a song based on a character in a Martin Amis novel

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