My husband Gareth & I played this on cassette in the car over & over. We were together for 34 yrs. l lost him in 2020 to pancreatic cancer at 58 yrs old. This reminds me of you Gar & those times. All I do is miss you..... Love you always Gar
Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. And you'll meet again in the afterlife to be together forever. God knows the truth in your heart.
Hey Mark, if you happen to be sitting at the computer some day or evening and looking down at the comments. . . . Back in the day I had a paper route. First thing I did with the money was open a bank account. Mother made me. Second thing I did was buy a Dire Straits album. Played it til the tape fell out of the cassette. Now here I am an older dude, still listening. And I've got my own Juliet. A decade later and she still haunts my dreams. This is one of those songs where I stop playing along on my guitar and just listen. Take care, man. Great work, as always.
I had a paper route. Saved up for Love Over Gold. Glad I did. I still love him and have no gold! My Juliet loves me anyway. Music. Nothing else comes close.
You only have to listen to the very end to see the respect from the audience. No anticipatory Whooping or clapping, just attentive awe, then eventually the heartfelt applause. Epic.
IMHO - The best version of this song I have ever heard. Mark did it again in bringing a tear to my eye. He is simply like no other guitarist in the world.
@@bucstart I am not sure what Brothers in Arms has to do with discussing live version of Romeo and Juliet. Although the On The Night version of BIA is also the best out of all live performances of the song in my opinion.
I always feel this song is hugely underrated. Hardly hear it on the mainstream radio. If the Beatles wrote this song it would be considered one of the greatest ever written. A masterpiece
This song hurts my heart every time I hear it. The early rendition came from the longing and pain of a young man. The older Romeo sings from a deeper, lingering remembered and still felt ache...
This song takes me to thoughts of my Romeo ~ except he’s got the writings of a King 👑🫵🏻💞 and I can feel his words serenading my heart ❤ I am so grateful for his love ❤️💘
My wife passed away in February at 32 years old (way too soon). I miss her a whole lot and listen to this song thinking of her. Dire Straits has been one of my favorites since I can remember hearing music and this song is a major reason why
The power of Mark's music and lyrical poetry is unmatched...there's just no comparison, he can take your heart right out of your chest and pull a lifetime of your deepest memories out of you in ways you are helpless to resist. This is artistry of the highest order...thank you...just thank you for continuing to share this with the world.
In the section between 3:20 and 3:45, the song slows to a softer beat, and Mark’s demeanor seems to suddenly become more somber. His voice takes on a huskier tone; his eyes grow softer and more contemplative; and the moment when head slightly tilted, his mouth strains with nearly uncontrolled emotion. This is what I love most about Mark Knopfler. He doesn’t just mouth words, he lives them. There are only a number of musicians I regret not having had the chance to go see perform live. Mark is on the top of that list.
I'd read that he wrote the song about his girlfriend of the time who heartlessly dumped him and hurt his heart... but when he's singing the song these many years later he seems to be feeling the lyrics emotionally, getting teary-eyed. My take on that is not that he's remembering the girl from almost 20 years before, but likely that he was going through a painful divorce at the time.
I had the opportunity to see Mark and this band (mostly) perform here in Winnipeg at our Concert Hall. I went with a few friends and my wife. To this day we talk about that experience and agree it was the best live concert we've ever attended, bar none.
@@katiezee2 The girlfriend at the time was Holly Vincent. He does get very emotional when he sings this song, and I agree it can't be about the break-up from 20 years ago. So you make a good point that he might have been going through a painful divorce with his ex-wife, Lourdes. Does anyone know why they got divorced? I remember reading at the time they supposedly had a solid marriage so people were surprised about the divorce. I am happy for Mark that he certainly seems to have a happy marriage with Kitty. He is awesome and deserves to be happy.
This is the most emotional version i've seen....everything seemed scaled back just a touch and the song was more powerful for it. Bless his heart you could see he had stuff on his mind while this was filmed. The face he pulls when his voice breaks a little at 5:03 is just so telling. Beautiful beyond words.
Not only is Mark the greatest guitarist of all times he is a poet as well. When you listen to the words carefully you can learn and realize further meaningful lyrics. His reference to There’s a place for us , just like the movie song, is reference to West Side Story. Almost all of his songs include reference to the past. Songs like Brothers in Arms, Sailing to Philadelphia, All the Road Running, If This is The End, and on and on have profound meaning. He is the greatest of my lifetime.
The best thing about Mark is that he's this unbelievably gifted master song writer, but seems so approachable as if you could sit down in the pub with him for a pint.
About 1977 i was in the local laundrette in Deptford & asked a bloke sitting reading a book if he had any change for the machine. We got talking & mentioned line of work. He said he was a musician in a band & mentioned the name. Thought it was unusual, didn't think anything of it.. A few months later saw the band on TOTP
As Mark plays it's clear that everyone in the room is thinking about past lovers, "and the way they used to be." What a great song, our shared experience.
There are some songs that can just take your soul back to a very specific moment in time... and you are right back to that place, that feeling, that pain, that passion, that loss. This is one of those . I can hear the opening notes and it is like 35 years have stood still -- frozen.
many times have I watched this video with my eyes closed... Just letting the music take me back to those golden moments of life - the beautiful ladies that built the embers & flames of my heart... One night or a hundred nights until the day I found my Juliet.. a thousand nights, ten thousand dreams, ten million thoughts that make this life and our love impossible to describe.
Its because he lived it. He wrote this song to a lover who used him to try to gain a name inthe music industry and the dumped him.. After all these years it still bothers him.
One of the legends in the history of music. Few can make a guitar sound the way he makes it sing. His lyrics are about real life. I hope to see him perform again soon.
We will have the pleasure in june, on his upcomming 2019 tour. Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorites. Besides, i just love the sound of his "National" steelguitar. This lovesong is an evergreen.
My absolute favourite song EVER!!! I have loved this song from the first moment I heard it!!!❤️ Everytime I listen to it, it moves me... still to this day! Thank you MK for perfection! 👌😊✨
@Jody White I think its the National steel guitar that makes it special. If that had been done on an accoustic or god forbid an electric it just wouldnt hace been so wonderfully emotional.
By far my favorite song of all time as well....I like the version The Indigo Girls do too but the original by Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits is nothing short of a masterpiece!
The song is part of our lives, the man is *unreal* : writes outstanding lyrics, sings in his own personal and irreplicable style, entertains the audience, and I have *no words* for his astonishing guitar skills, he can make his pensa sound like a *violin* ... absolutely mind-blowing... unrivalled
Grateful for every emotion this song puts me through, it is so, unbelievably beautiful and sad. The decades have passed me and this song keeps me in the same place i once fell in love and watched it slip away. This song is my bittersweet corner of the world.
Mark Knopfler is in my top 3 musicians of all time. Most folks don't even know who he is. Saw him in concert at a small venue in St Augustine, FL 2 yrs ago. Fantastic.
Everything that can be said about this beautiful song and touching performance has been said; I can add no more... except to compliment the pianist on his heartfelt playing. I am truly moved. Thank you all.
I think the pianist adds so much to their songs. Take nothing away from anything else, but the piano makes it so much more emotional. At least to me. Cheers
This song actually makes me cry endlessly like a baby.. I have so many memories that come up to my mind every time I listen to this song... Mom I love you. Forever and always. ❤️
"...and all I do is miss you, the way we used to be..." How many times has he sung that line and yet you can see that someone is still clearly on his mind when he sings this. Powerful emotive stuff here... a true master.
Yes, you know that he's got a specific Juliet who still haunts him. Seems like I read that he married his third wife--who he is still married to today in 2019--in 96 or 97. I know I have a Romeo--more than one, for sure... That song just busts me up inside!
I fell in love with this song sometime in the early 80's when I actually heard it on German radio somewhere in the Frankfurt area, I fell in love with so many of his/their songs over the years. I waited until my late 30's to find the right woman, my Juliet... 8 years later, after I came down with a life altering degenerative nerve disease it came to an abrupt end. I had discovered this version just a week or so before we split... This version is so beautiful, so mournful, so gut wrenching if you have lived it. I miss her every waking moment of every day, but the time was truly wrong for us...
This is about his “relationship” he had years ago with Holly Beth Vincent of “Holly and the Italians” band. She treated him really bad. She used him to help her fame, then dumped him, over the phone while he was on tour in the USA. She did an interview and was asked about her relationship with Mark and she said “I had a scene with him but it got to the point he couldn’t handle it so I broke up with him”. That’s where the verse in Mark’s song “yeah I had a scene with him” originated from.
This version of Romeo and Juliet is so emotional. I've watched it since released and it's just as potent now as then. Around 3:10 is when I can't hold back any longer. At 3:28 when his lip quivers and all that emotion. ...oh man..... what a love song!!
This is such a beautiful song , what it was written about and played for I suppose is JUST PART OF THE WALK OF LIFE , so yes life and the walk with many bring you pain and some may just use you for what they need to till they are done in getting what they need , do not want to judge another or who caused who harm , it is just such an amazing and beautiful song till you find out what the lyrics are truly about . Your music is just awesome , you a humble person and you made it through all that pain and yes it was not the right time of Your Walk Of Life for that relationship as painful as it was , I salute you for your music and always writing and playing about something and not nothing , Great guitarist , great solo player and one of the best bands ever , Dire Straits
Mark this Romeo and Juliet is such an awesome song. You are so Awesome. You are the best of the best. Been a fan since I was 13 years old and I am still a Fan. Stay safe Mark a fan for ever
I always thought this was the best version of this song, live or studio, and I hadn't heard it in a long time and just listen to it and I still think that. Between the incredible sound and tone of that old national he plays, and the feeling he puts into this, together, it just all works right!
Festival hall sometime back in the 80s and not one sound from the audience while Mark was on fire with this song . Will go to my grave with the memory of the best performance I have ever seen/heard from anyone .
It's me or something's up with that gorgeous fantastic cello player? Must be me. But I love this song since the 80s. It will resound in the fabric of the Universe for a long time. Thank you Mark.
This song is so perfect musically you just become mesmerized by it. The piano and the guitar intertwined with all the band. The singing - kind of talking - style of Mr. M. Knopfler. The lyrics. The orchestration. It's amazing.
My favorite version and cast of players. I'm in awe every time I listen. This is a cultural legacy coming from a man who has tremendous talent and humility. Thanks, Mark!
One of the only songs written in the last 50 years that brings me to tears every time I hear it. I think that’s the greatest compliment a songwriter can ever have.
Even after all these years Mark Knopfler sings this song with the same feeling and it feels so fresh. I just cannot imagine the pain he must have gone through while writing this song and playing those tasty licks. Especially 5:08 part hits me right in the feels everytime. He is my God.🙌
I came here because the message came from Mark Knopfler, and because I hadn't listened to this song in ages. I still knew all the words though. Fantastic stuff.
Beautiful song mark. My very best friend has just told me the story behind this, it’s funny how the words of songs mean so much , sometimes we can all relate to them , when we think of the special people in our lives .
It's Friday, 10 April 2020 ... and I see only 725k views for this masterpiece? Merci, it should be 725mil. One of the most beautiful performances ever. 😍
Can't put into words how moving this song is too me, after all these years. It's just the best song ever written, your performance is truly magical. Thank you 🙏🏼💙
Look at 3:00 to 3:35 too, where it fades to a different camera. The song is about Holly Vincent, an old flame, you can see there is still a lot of emotion there, this is probably the only video of this track where it's really apparent.
My husband Gareth & I played this on cassette in the car over & over. We were together for 34 yrs. l lost him in 2020 to pancreatic cancer at 58 yrs old. This reminds me of you Gar & those times. All I do is miss you..... Love you always Gar
❤☮️🙏🏼
I know that feeling I lost mine a year ago of 34 years.
Sorry for your loss
Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. And you'll meet again in the afterlife to be together forever. God knows the truth in your heart.
God bless you 🙏
Perhaps the most perfect piece of music ever written.
Agreed
Agreed
Correct
I never heard this song until 2024, but I have to agree!
Hey Mark, if you happen to be sitting at the computer some day or evening and looking down at the comments. . . . Back in the day I had a paper route. First thing I did with the money was open a bank account. Mother made me. Second thing I did was buy a Dire Straits album. Played it til the tape fell out of the cassette. Now here I am an older dude, still listening. And I've got my own Juliet. A decade later and she still haunts my dreams. This is one of those songs where I stop playing along on my guitar and just listen. Take care, man. Great work, as always.
The good songwriters seem to help us tell our own stories, don't they? I remember saving to buy records.
Seems we have all had our Romeo's and Juliet's. That one you still think about. You still love no matter what. Mark captures that.
This song is so special to lots of people and it is to me also because i am waiting for him to call me.
Juliet loves Romeo♡x
Great comment
I had a paper route. Saved up for Love Over Gold. Glad I did. I still love him and have no gold! My Juliet loves me anyway. Music. Nothing else comes close.
You only have to listen to the very end to see the respect from the audience. No anticipatory Whooping or clapping, just attentive awe, then eventually the heartfelt applause. Epic.
So true. You can't hear a pin drop but only true respect from All. How can one not respect this Genius that gave US so much.
IMHO - The best version of this song I have ever heard. Mark did it again in bringing a tear to my eye. He is simply like no other guitarist in the world.
Right? I listen to this version relatively often and still it moves me every time.
The best version? Nah. Second best, but still miles behind On The Night. The piano&sax there were just absolutely magical
@@y.r._ Great comparison, but BIA has a personal impact on me as an X service member that lost dear friends.
@@bucstart I am not sure what Brothers in Arms has to do with discussing live version of Romeo and Juliet. Although the On The Night version of BIA is also the best out of all live performances of the song in my opinion.
I always feel this song is hugely underrated. Hardly hear it on the mainstream radio. If the Beatles wrote this song it would be considered one of the greatest ever written. A masterpiece
Amen
It is one of the most brilliant "lost love" songs ever written. Highly literate and passionate. Just gets better with time.
Underrated by who? Song old 40+ years, and still owesome and aprechiated
@@ivanabonacicdoric8537 not by the radio stations, ask most people to list their top 10 love songs and this won't be in it
My favorite rock ballad ever.
This song hurts my heart every time I hear it. The early rendition came from the longing and pain of a young man. The older Romeo sings from a deeper, lingering remembered and still felt ache...
Thank you, Marilynn.
It is, as you suggest, that it looks at how the passage of time touches us all. Nifty pieces of writing.
This song takes me to thoughts of my Romeo ~ except he’s got the writings of a King 👑🫵🏻💞
and I can feel his words serenading my heart ❤
I am so grateful for his love ❤️💘
Possibly the best version of Romeo and Juliet. Almost always brings a tear to my eye.
Great version, but nowhere near Alchemy-standard.
Dragonsneeze, I do so agree with you. These lyrics are sheer poetry, the song is timeless and goes straight to my heart.......
Mine too.
Dragonsneeze me too!
"Almost" Are you dead inside? Also use your real name? Are you like fucking 12?
My wife passed away in February at 32 years old (way too soon). I miss her a whole lot and listen to this song thinking of her. Dire Straits has been one of my favorites since I can remember hearing music and this song is a major reason why
Sorry for your wife. God give you strength to cope up. Dire Straits is healing. Touch of divinity
Mark, if you ever read these....... you’re a genius, mate
One of the best singers and guitar players in the world no contest in a league all of his own
The power of Mark's music and lyrical poetry is unmatched...there's just no comparison, he can take your heart right out of your chest and pull a lifetime of your deepest memories out of you in ways you are helpless to resist. This is artistry of the highest order...thank you...just thank you for continuing to share this with the world.
Mark Hilliard de 5
ABSOLUTELY AGREE & THIS TUNE DOES JUST THAT!!!!!!!
And there's always amples of giftedness at the root of it all.
brilliancy worded
Power of music .....all the way to my heart in Serbia.
holy moses, that one of a kind recording.. but that piano man is oustanding.. thanks for the music you beautiful people
In the section between 3:20 and 3:45, the song slows to a softer beat, and Mark’s demeanor seems to suddenly become more somber. His voice takes on a huskier tone; his eyes grow softer and more contemplative; and the moment when head slightly tilted, his mouth strains with nearly uncontrolled emotion. This is what I love most about Mark Knopfler. He doesn’t just mouth words, he lives them. There are only a number of musicians I regret not having had the chance to go see perform live. Mark is on the top of that list.
I'd read that he wrote the song about his girlfriend of the time who heartlessly dumped him and hurt his heart... but when he's singing the song these many years later he seems to be feeling the lyrics emotionally, getting teary-eyed.
My take on that is not that he's remembering the girl from almost 20 years before, but likely that he was going through a painful divorce at the time.
I had the opportunity to see Mark and this band (mostly) perform here in Winnipeg at our Concert Hall. I went with a few friends and my wife. To this day we talk about that experience and agree it was the best live concert we've ever attended, bar none.
@@katiezee2 The girlfriend at the time was Holly Vincent. He does get very emotional when he sings this song, and I agree it can't be about the break-up from 20 years ago. So you make a good point that he might have been going through a painful divorce with his ex-wife, Lourdes. Does anyone know why they got divorced? I remember reading at the time they supposedly had a solid marriage so people were surprised about the divorce. I am happy for Mark that he certainly seems to have a happy marriage with Kitty. He is awesome and deserves to be happy.
same here, maybe he'll give it a ho once more at some point
I heard he got dumped by gorgeous Holly from Holly and the Italians. That would break anybodys heart!
This song touches my Soul! Would Love to see Mark in person! He's sooo talented!
This is the most emotional version i've seen....everything seemed scaled back just a touch and the song was more powerful for it. Bless his heart you could see he had stuff on his mind while this was filmed. The face he pulls when his voice breaks a little at 5:03 is just so telling. Beautiful beyond words.
I feel like he's really feeling the woman he wrote it about. Painful, beautiful song.
Bitter sweet memories
❤
You could work a whole lifetime in music in the hope of writing a song like this. A truly timeless song.
Happy birthday Mark Knopfler. Congratulations for your 75 yo Master!
Especially ❤ to hear Mark sing this song.
never get sick of listening to mark
Not only is Mark the greatest guitarist of all times he is a poet as well. When you listen to the words carefully you can learn and realize further meaningful lyrics. His reference to There’s a place for us , just like the movie song, is reference to West Side Story.
Almost all of his songs include reference to the past. Songs like Brothers in Arms, Sailing to Philadelphia, All the Road Running, If This is The End, and on and on have profound meaning. He is the greatest of my lifetime.
The best thing about Mark is that he's this unbelievably gifted master song writer, but seems so approachable as if you could sit down in the pub with him for a pint.
Rghttttt
About 1977 i was in the local laundrette in Deptford & asked a bloke sitting reading a book if he had any change for the machine. We got talking & mentioned line of work. He said he was a musician in a band & mentioned the name. Thought it was unusual, didn't think anything of it.. A few months later saw the band on TOTP
Mark Knopfler is one of those guitarists that never had to be told to turn down.
As Mark plays it's clear that everyone in the room is thinking about past lovers, "and the way they used to be." What a great song, our shared experience.
Amen Amen ♥️♥️
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So true wonderful thanks Mark
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Romeo..
@@claireplant8113 I know ...
There are some songs that can just take your soul back to a very specific moment in time... and you are right back to that place, that feeling, that pain, that passion, that loss. This is one of those . I can hear the opening notes and it is like 35 years have stood still -- frozen.
Beautiful
many times have I watched this video with my eyes closed... Just letting the music take me back to those golden moments of life - the beautiful ladies that built the embers & flames of my heart... One night or a hundred nights until the day I found my Juliet.. a thousand nights, ten thousand dreams, ten million thoughts that make this life and our love impossible to describe.
This was the first Dire Straits "single" I bought back in the day. Love, love,love Mark Knoppler xxxx ❤
So underrated. A great songwriter, guitarist and unique voice. He was, is dire straits. A great talent.
You are the best guitariste in the World Mark merci beaucoup 🎉🎉i
The best part of live performances is the emotion they portray and in turn, elicit emotion from us. This is beautiful!
Werd
Mark nails( aceses) this song. ❤
Not saying anything new here but such a beautiful song. Those lucky lucky people in the audience. Thanks for sharing Mr Knopfler ❤
The sincerity of Mark when performing is what I believe makes this song so effective in capturing the right emotions
Its because he lived it. He wrote this song to a lover who used him to try to gain a name inthe music industry and the dumped him.. After all these years it still bothers him.
What a bitch ! I hope she regretted it in the end . 😘
Can't say anything... except your song has me in tears -- everytime, Mark!
One of the greatest love songs ever, and maybe the best version of it
Yes it is the best version
Yep...I played this song in my wedding
Agreed.. beautiful song, and this performance is magical. I always tear up!
@@deejaydoubleyou1966 it’s highly emotional and vulnerable. Such as life...
Outstanding .
A master of melody, lyrics and guitar. I've been fortunate to see him 6 times and he and the band are superb live.
Mark is a true national treasure
My friend, he should be a UNESCO World Heritage Treasure 😉...
One of the legends in the history of music. Few can make a guitar sound the way he makes it sing. His lyrics are about real life. I hope to see him perform again soon.
We will have the pleasure in june, on his upcomming 2019 tour. Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorites. Besides, i just love the sound of his "National" steelguitar. This lovesong is an evergreen.
Planning to go to see Him at the Greek Theatre this coming September 2019 in LA. TOP OF MY LIST INDEED
Sicuramente la migliore versione di sempre!!!!
I just can't find the exactly words to describe how much this beautiful song is. Mark's voice is... Heaven.
All you need is find the exact mood to enjoy this beautiful song! :-)
I agree it’s just amazing x
❤❤grandissimo MARK non sbaglia mai che suono meraviglioso can,one intramontabile❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Your music is absolutely beautiful Mark Knopfler.
What to say....simply is Mark Knopfler and all songs are beautiful from him alone or with Dire Straits!
Mr. Knopfler, thank you so much for your beautiful music ! You are the greatest musician ever!
Perfect!!
One of the best live songs written.
How I'd love a night in London like that...love all the colors and his band is perfectly timed to each other...his words are so adorably sweet
My absolute favourite song EVER!!!
I have loved this song from the first moment I heard it!!!❤️ Everytime I listen to it, it moves me... still to this day!
Thank you MK for perfection! 👌😊✨
But Juliet . . . Sigh. At least you left me with decent taste in jazz.
Same! When I was in university, it was always the song I signed off with on my campus radio show.
Jody White - agreed, my fave too
@Jody White I think its the National steel guitar that makes it special. If that had been done on an accoustic or god forbid an electric it just wouldnt hace been so wonderfully emotional.
By far my favorite song of all time as well....I like the version The Indigo Girls do too but the original by Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits is nothing short of a masterpiece!
Mark, "your golden heart"!
I cry every time I watch this, and I love that. Thank you ❤
An absolute masterpiece and he’s holding for me what is the most famous guitar ever.
One of the best guitar artist in the last 60 years. I hear this music since 40 years... and I'm never tired of it.
Thats music for eternity!!!
This is hands-down, the best version of that gorgeous song.
The song is part of our lives, the man is *unreal* : writes outstanding lyrics, sings in his own personal and irreplicable style, entertains the audience, and I have *no words* for his astonishing guitar skills, he can make his pensa sound like a *violin* ... absolutely mind-blowing... unrivalled
He always sings and plays with soul...not only with fingers.
But... those fingers are golden like his heart
Grateful for every emotion this song puts me through, it is so, unbelievably beautiful and sad. The decades have passed me and this song keeps me in the same place i once fell in love and watched it slip away. This song is my bittersweet corner of the world.
Mark Knopfler is in my top 3 musicians of all time. Most folks don't even know who he is. Saw him in concert at a small venue in St Augustine, FL 2 yrs ago. Fantastic.
I hate to correct you, but most folks do know who Mark Knopfler is, including my Gen-Y Australian-born kids.
Many people do know who he is, try getting a ticket to one of his sold out shows.👍
only youngster this era does not know him
@@SuzyQ334 hey girl, you just stop here. Love and kisses
I know who he is have seen every concert in Tennessee.. Never miss Dire Straits.. Ms.M
Alot of credit to the audience for being quiet on this version! Really sets the mood.
All I can say is excellent❤
Everything that can be said about this beautiful song and touching performance has been said; I can add no more... except to compliment the pianist on his heartfelt playing. I am truly moved. Thank you all.
I think the pianist adds so much to their songs. Take nothing away from anything else, but the piano makes it so much more emotional. At least to me. Cheers
Always moves me 💕
Absolutely beautiful, great band as well
This song actually makes me cry endlessly like a baby.. I have so many memories that come up to my mind every time I listen to this song... Mom I love you. Forever and always. ❤️
"...and all I do is miss you, the way we used to be..." How many times has he sung that line and yet you can see that someone is still clearly on his mind when he sings this. Powerful emotive stuff here... a true master.
Yes, you know that he's got a specific Juliet who still haunts him. Seems like I read that he married his third wife--who he is still married to today in 2019--in 96 or 97. I know I have a Romeo--more than one, for sure... That song just busts me up inside!
I fell in love with this song sometime in the early 80's when I actually heard it on German radio somewhere in the Frankfurt area, I fell in love with so many of his/their songs over the years. I waited until my late 30's to find the right woman, my Juliet... 8 years later, after I came down with a life altering degenerative nerve disease it came to an abrupt end. I had discovered this version just a week or so before we split... This version is so beautiful, so mournful, so gut wrenching if you have lived it. I miss her every waking moment of every day, but the time was truly wrong for us...
This is about his “relationship” he had years ago with Holly Beth Vincent of “Holly and the Italians” band. She treated him really bad. She used him to help her fame, then dumped him, over the phone while he was on tour in the USA. She did an interview and was asked about her relationship with Mark and she said “I had a scene with him but it got to the point he couldn’t handle it so I broke up with him”. That’s where the verse in Mark’s song “yeah I had a scene with him” originated from.
Easily the best version ever of this song!! The emotions he sings with is insane. Absolutely incredible.
This version of Romeo and Juliet is so emotional. I've watched it since released and it's just as potent now as then. Around 3:10 is when I can't hold back any longer. At 3:28 when his lip quivers and all that emotion. ...oh man..... what a love song!!
The emotion is for all to see, the song is about an ex of MK's that didn't quite work out, clearly. Powerful song.
This is what real looks like
Just amazing that HE still lives these emotions all these decades later. Now THAT'S real art!
His expression at 5:08 "you and me baby, how about it"..
you've got perception if anything
This is such a beautiful song , what it was written about and played for I suppose is JUST PART OF THE WALK OF LIFE , so yes life and the walk with many bring you pain and some may just use you for what they need to till they are done in getting what they need , do not want to judge another or who caused who harm , it is just such an amazing and beautiful song till you find out what the lyrics are truly about . Your music is just awesome , you a humble person and you made it through all that pain and yes it was not the right time of Your Walk Of Life for that relationship as painful as it was , I salute you for your music and always writing and playing about something and not nothing , Great guitarist , great solo player and one of the best bands ever , Dire Straits
Mark this Romeo and Juliet is such an awesome song. You are so Awesome. You are the best of the best. Been a fan since I was 13 years old and I am still a Fan. Stay safe Mark a fan for ever
thank you, for one of the most beautiful ballads, have been awestruck of your talents for over 30 years.
What ya gonna do about it? OMGosh, I SO love him.
Mark Knopfler, you are an illuminated being and you are full of pure Love when you compose your music. I Love you for this.Thank you.
I'm just going to put this on repeat for the rest of my life
I always thought this was the best version of this song, live or studio, and I hadn't heard it in a long time and just listen to it and I still think that. Between the incredible sound and tone of that old national he plays, and the feeling he puts into this, together, it just all works right!
It was just that the time was wrong. Sad...Mark is the best at putting it in a song. The song speaks from the heart
Festival hall sometime back in the 80s and not one sound from the audience while Mark was on fire with this song . Will go to my grave with the memory of the best performance I have ever seen/heard from anyone .
It's me or something's up with that gorgeous fantastic cello player? Must be me. But I love this song since the 80s. It will resound in the fabric of the Universe for a long time. Thank you Mark.
Stunning.
Congratulations to Dire Straits on their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Well, that was about time wasn't it?
One of the most beautiful songs, brings good memories to my heart! ❤
This song is so perfect musically you just become mesmerized by it. The piano and the guitar intertwined with all the band. The singing - kind of talking - style of Mr. M. Knopfler. The lyrics. The orchestration. It's amazing.
My favorite version and cast of players. I'm in awe every time I listen. This is a cultural legacy coming from a man who has tremendous talent and humility. Thanks, Mark!
Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to us! Absolutely a joy to see and hear!
The greatest love song ever written.
Absolutely incredible Heartfelt and some of the greatest guitar playing ever
One of the greatest guitarists on Earth ever.
I can never ever get enough of this version of this song. So many beautiful heartfelt deeply touching moments.
Betrayal, loss and yet... love that refuses to just go away. So beautiful.
Beautiful song, brings such memories to my heart!!
One of the only songs written in the last 50 years that brings me to tears every time I hear it. I think that’s the greatest compliment a songwriter can ever have.
Incredible how a raspy voice can sound so elegant
Even after all these years Mark Knopfler sings this song with the same feeling and it feels so fresh. I just cannot imagine the pain he must have gone through while writing this song and playing those tasty licks. Especially 5:08 part hits me right in the feels everytime. He is my God.🙌
Adoro estas músicas Mark. Knopfer
Is there a more profound and emotionally cutting love song ? I suspect not. A masterpiece.
I came here because the message came from Mark Knopfler, and because I hadn't listened to this song in ages. I still knew all the words though. Fantastic stuff.
Thank you for all the wonderful music Mark!
Thank you for making me cry .... how easy to make us laugh... but to make someone cry well thats true power - i needed that release amazing song!
Still love,love love this song. Mark's voice is sublime ❤xxxx
Voice, music and strokes from another world
Untouchable song by a songwriting god
Beautiful song mark. My very best friend has just told me the story behind this, it’s funny how the words of songs mean so much , sometimes we can all relate to them , when we think of the special people in our lives .
What an amazing song, what an amazing performance
When I listen to this song, Mark I get a big lump in my throat. I have a Romeo, who lies tenderly in my heart.
It's Friday, 10 April 2020 ... and I see only 725k views for this masterpiece? Merci, it should be 725mil. One of the most beautiful performances ever. 😍
@Aden Moses .... thanks 👍
Can't put into words how moving this song is too me, after all these years. It's just the best song ever written, your performance is truly magical. Thank you 🙏🏼💙
5:09 - Mark's face makes me cry.
what is it about him? I just die every time i see this
omg damn. How did I miss that. Gut punch for sure. Thanks Tiago for pointing that out.
@@aspjake123 That goes deep man. Noticed that since the first time I watched this
Look at 3:00 to 3:35 too, where it fades to a different camera. The song is about Holly Vincent, an old flame, you can see there is still a lot of emotion there, this is probably the only video of this track where it's really apparent.
He certainly is a cutie and I wish he was mine
why does this man melt me in every way
Maggie this song is for me the best ever written beautiful.