Dire Straits: “Telegraph Road” (I dio)

Kao i pjesmu “Sailing to Philadelphia”, Mark Knopfler je pjesmu “Telegraph Road” napisao inspiriran knjigom. Telegraph Road ili Route 24 je vrlo poznata autocesta u američkoj saveznoj državi Michigan, a Knopfler je putovao tom cestom kad je čitao knjigu “Blagoslov zemlje” norveškog pisca Knuta Hamsuna. Spojivši iskustvo putovanja dugačkom i ravnom autocestom te čitanja knjige, za koju je Hamsun 1920. godine dobio Nobelovu nagradu za književnost, Knopfler je napisao pjesmu koja, u prvom dijelu, govori o naseljavanju i razvoju područja uz Telegraph Road, dok u drugom dijelu govori o ispraznom životu pojedinca u velikom gradu punom tvornica i nezaposlenih ljudi. Pjesma se nalazi na albumu “Love over Gold” iz 1982. godine i dugačka je gotovo15 minuta.

” … in fact, I was driving down that road, and I was reading a book at the time, called The Growth of the Soil and I just put the two together. I was driving down this Telegraph Road … and it just went on and on and on forever, it’s like what they call linear development. And I just started to think, I wondered how that road must have been when it started, what it must have first been. And then really that’s how it all came about, yeah, I just put that book together and the place where I was, I was actually sitting in the front of the tour bus, at the time.”
Mark Knopfler

Dire Straits: “Telegraph Road” (II dio)