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    not on the album. The Notting Hillbillies reunited several times for charity gigs. In May 1997 the Hillbillies went on an 11 show tour in the UK. The...
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  • Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time is a studio album by the Notting Hillbillies, released on 6 March 1990 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by...
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    Dire Straits (category Juno Award for International Album of the Year winners)
    The Notting Hillbillies' one album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time, with its single "Your Own Sweet Way", was released in 1990. The Notting Hillbillies...
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    Phillips was later to rejoin Knopfler in the short lived side exercise from Dire Straits, The Notting Hillbillies. Upon graduation in 1973, Knopfler moved...
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  • released a self-titled album in 1992. Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune described the Notting Hillbillies' Missing ... Presumed Having a Good Time as a Traveling...
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    Brendan Croker (1989) EP by Brendan Croker & the Five O'Clock Shadows (1989) "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" from UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack...
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    backing band; The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies. During the late 1980s, he was an auxiliary member of The Mekons and...
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    Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and...
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  • him and the band at work on the album. Guy Fletcher, John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick and Greg Leisz are shown to be part of the band. The first three...
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    Guy Fletcher (category The Notting Hillbillies members)
    best known for his position as one of the two keyboard players in the rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution, and his subsequent...
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  • Marcus Cliffe (category The Notting Hillbillies members)
    member of the jazz trio PBD with fellow Manfred musician Mike Hugg. "The Mafreds Official Website". Retrieved 11 March 2016. "The Notting Hillbillies Songs...
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    Steve Phillips (musician) (category The Notting Hillbillies members)
    maker (under the name "N.S. Phillips") and painter. He is mainly renowned for being part of the supergroup The Notting Hillbillies along with the Dire Straits...
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  • Ed Bicknell (category The Notting Hillbillies members)
    drums in The Notting Hillbillies formed in 1990 by Mark Knopfler. They recorded one album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time, toured the UK and performed...
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  • but it did not chart at the time. Following its re-issue in January 1979, the song entered the American music pop chart. Unusually, the success of this...
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  • making this a perfect album for a rainy Sunday morning. Like his Notting Hillbillies side project, it isn't entirely unplugged, yet there is an emphasis...
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  • Theme of the Local Hero" is an instrumental rock track by Mark Knopfler, and the closing track from the 1983 film Local Hero soundtrack. It was the debut...
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    Paul Franklin (musician) (category The Notting Hillbillies members)
    Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits, Barbara Mandrell, Rodney Crowell, Notting Hillbillies, Sting, Peter Frampton, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Faith Hill,...
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  • became known as the Mason–Dixon line and has been used since the 1820s to denote the border between the Southern United States and the Northern United...
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    David Knopfler (category Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol)
    band toward the end of recording sessions in August 1980, and does not appear on the final release as his contribution was re-recorded. There are, however...
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  • Local Hero is the debut soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released in April 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally...
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  • 9, 1985. Event occurs at Closing credits. NBC. "Candice Bergen/The Notting Hillbillies". Saturday Night Live. Season 15. Episode 20. May 19, 1990. Event...
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    Chris White (saxophonist) (category The Notting Hillbillies members)
    reunion gigs in London and Beaulieu Abbey. In May 1990, he joined The Notting Hillbillies, a country rock project formed by Mark Knopfler. In 1991, White...
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  • the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The album peaked at 105 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. Following the...
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  • and Duck Baker, the Insect Trust and The Notting Hillbillies. He died in Warrenton, Virginia. Komara, Edward; Lee, Peter (2004). The Blues Encyclopedia...
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  • musician (The Notting Hillbillies). Nico Ladenis, 89, British cook and restaurateur. Sir Ian Wilmut, 79, British embryologist, creator of Dolly the sheep...
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  • Get Lucky is the sixth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 14 September 2009 in Europe by Mercury...
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  • concert. The boxset also includes a documentary DVD, A Life in Songs, and a numbered art print. The Super Deluxe Edition Boxset does not include the five-track...
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  • concluded that "This is not only a fine collection for fans because of its wonderful sequencing, but the best introduction to the man and the band that one could...
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  • Tracker is the eighth solo studio album by the British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 16 March 2015 (17 March 2015 in North...
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  • Shangri-La is the fourth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 28 September 2004 by Mercury Records...
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