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The lead song from Knopfler's eighth solo studio album ‘Tracker’ released March, 2015 is about novelist Beryl Bainbridge.
""Beryl Bainbridge was a marvelous writer, as many people know, but the fact that she was a self-deprecating, working class girl from Liverpool," Knopfler said.
Beryl was nominated for the Booker Prize five times but she never won. She died in 2010. Knopfler decided to give a retro Dire Straits style for this track to match the era he was singing then.
