On November 21st Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler wrapped up their 2011 European tour in London, performing a rare duet of “Forever Young” at the Hammersmith Apollo. Even though Knopfler had constantly joined Dylan’s band on stage playing guitar, the fans had to wait until the last song of the last show of this tour to enjoy them singing a song together.
Mark Knopfler had collaborated with Dylan for the first time more than 30 years ago, playing guitar on the album “Slow Train Coming” (with the hit single and Grammy-awarded “Gotta Serve Somebody”), and producing his album “Infidels” in 1983 including the beautiful classic outtake “Blind Willie McTell”.
The YouTube-user “Knopflermania” created this nice split-screen video version based on two previously uploaded audience cam videos. Thanks, and enjoy!
Have you been there? Post your opinion on the performance!
may your song alwaaaaays be sung…….
Great work of a terrific moment
thanks for this fine cut. great performance. breath taking
beautiful.
Goose bumps when Knopfler acknowledged Dylan midway.
I was in Glasgow (both), in Berlin and in Padua during this particulare tour, but not in that special night in London. I am a long time fan of both and I appreciated a lot this fine double video.
Great idea! Thank you!
What a beautiful performance to watch on Thanksgiving morning!
What a great way to end a great tour for two heroes of music! I was at the show in Florence and considered even this week-end to pick-up three tickets for the last three dates in London and book a quick return flight with EasyJet or some other low-cost. In the back of my mind, after all the critique of HM’s Voice, the thought that Bob may be considering throwing the towel when it comes to touring live, and that this Monday’s show could well be the very last ever, since there are no shows planned at all for the moment. But after Florence I felt that that was a great show and sufficient for me for this year, hoping for other tours to come in 2012 or after. After seeing this clip and seeing the moving way Mark honored the Master of Lyrics and also seeing the way Bob returned the same favor at the end and seeing that they closed the whole tour with the song with which my wife and I once announced the birth of our daughter to the whole world, Forever Young, one of the most beautiful lyrics ever written, I now know I most certainly should have been at this show, no doubt! These closing 6 minutes would have worth the cost of traveling there by plane and paying for the last show of the tour for me without any hesitation. A very memorable moment and as good as it gets! May Bob’s song always be sung! I’m pretty sure it will be….thanks for posting, Hans in France.
after all the uncountable heartfelt tributes and accolades by so many people over so many years to Bob Dylan, this 1 second gesture from Mark Knopfler just seems to sum up so much. really very moving
The best song from this whole tour and if only Bob would show a bit of emotion and not be so mechanical then maybe he would adhere himself to more people who fork out a lot of money to see him:)!
Too beautiful to understand!!!
Overwhelmingly touching moment, a real joy to be there.
Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I so love it when Mark sings May your songs always be sung, pointing at Bob!!!
Tony Garnier looks to be having such great fun!!
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a hair standing on end moment for sure
wonderful video and thank you for posting
Impressive publish! STICK WITH IT!
Great!
MK´s guitar and voice are perfect for this song and this tribute to MUSIC!