Metroland soundtrack mark knopfler biography

1999 soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler

Metroland is the seventh soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 23 March 1999 by Vertigo Records internationally and Warner Bros.

Records in the United States. The album contains music composed for the 1997 film Metroland, directed by Philip Saville.^[1]

Composition

The instrumental tracks, specifically composed and recorded for the film by Knopfler, effectively help to create the mood and highlight the distinct personalities of the principal characters,^[2] with the soundtrack changing the atmosphere as the film flips back and forth between Paris in the early '60s and suburban London in 1977.^[3] Parisian flavour is augmented by the music of Françoise Hardy, Django Reinhardt and Quintette du Hot Club de France, with some late-70s classics from The Stranglers, Dire Straits, Hot Chocolate and Elvis Costello that are appropriate for