Who is Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film score composer.

Mark Knopfler is left-handed, but plays hig guitar right-handed, and fingerpicks (using a personal variant of the clawhammer style) instead of using a plectrum (i.e., "pick"). Fingerpicking is usually associated with the acoustic guitar, but Knopfler usually (though not always) plays an electric guitar.

Mark Knopfler has long favoured Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster style guitars. During the 1980s he came to appreciate the tone of the Gibson Les Paul and his original 1958 has been used regularly in the studio and on stage.