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by Mark Knopfler. Album: Shangri-La (2004) Charted: 34. License This Song . lyrics. Songfacts®: This song is about fast food, specifically the spread of McDonald's. >> The lyrics detail the story of Ray Kroc and buying out the McDonald brothers' hamburger restaurant.
- 'The Ragpicker's Dream' From: 'The Ragpicker's Dream' (2002) Knopfler has said he disbanded Dire Straits as a defense mechanism against the sheer size the band's career had taken on, and 'The Ragpicker's Dream,' which tops our list of the Top 10 Mark Knopfler Solo Songs offers a perfectly poignant example of the scaled-down beauty his best solo works have achieved.
- 'Sailing to Philadelphia' From: 'Sailing to Philadelphia' (2000) The title track from Knopfler's second solo release, 'Sailing to Philadelphia' draws its inspiration from Thomas Pynchon's 'Mason & Dixon,' which uses the real-life accomplishments of surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of the Mason-Dixon line) as a framing device for an epic 773-page story.
- 'Done with Bonaparte' From: 'Golden Heart' (1996) It's tough to write an anti-war song without being didactic about it -- just ask Sting -- but Knopfler's 'Done with Bonaparte' offers a master class in how to get it done, underscoring the futility of battle by imagining the weary disgust of a soldier in Napoleon's army and ending with the disillusioned sigh, "I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord / I'm done with Bonaparte."
- 'Song for Sonny Liston' From: 'Shangri-La' (2004) What Knopfler's solo records might lack in guitar pyrotechnics, they make up with his evolving gift for storytelling.
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Apr 26, 2017 · In 2004, 'Boom, Like That,' on the Mark Knopfler album Shangri-La, was inspired like the recent movie 'The Founder' by Ray Kroc, the man behind McDonald's.
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