hit. then m.t.v. started out with their increasingly mainstream sound the band fit perfectly to the station's us american music profile. mark knopfler solo career has now lasted longer than his time with dire straits two very different chapters of his life. you can't really compare them i think both and a lot of ways because the first achieved so much of the dream stuff that you want to you know to actually get there. was very important you know that just it was brilliant it was great you know and i loved it. i loved the whole thing it until it became so big that i just stopped enjoying it. in the eighty's the