John Illsley

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John Illsley (1979)
John Illsley (left) at a Dire Straits concert in 1985

John Illsley (born June 24, 1949 in Leicester , England ) is a British musician .

Career

In 1977, the bassist Illsley founded the British band Dire Straits together with Mark Knopfler ( guitar ), his brother David Knopfler (guitar) and Pick Withers on drums , in which he played continuously and alongside Mark Knopfler as the only founding member until it was dissolved in the 1990s .

In the 1980s he released two solo albums, Never Told a Soul (1984) and Glass (1988), with Mark Knopfler helping him out on guitar. In June 2002, Mark Knopfler held four benefit concerts in London, at which Illsley and other ex-Dire Straits members ( Guy Fletcher on keyboards , Chris White on saxophone and Danny Cummings on drums) were on stage together for the first time since 1992 stood.

After years of chronic leukemia, Illsley had to undergo a stem cell transplant in 2011 and is now considered cured. In 2015 he went on a European tour with his live band, which also included guitarist Phil Palmer .

Discography

  • 1984: Never Told a Soul
  • 1988: Glass
  • 2007: Live in Les Baux de Provence - John Illsley with Cunla & Greg Pearle
  • 2008: Beautiful You - Greg Pearle & John Illsley
  • 2010: Streets Of Heaven
  • 2014: Testing The Water
  • 2015: Live In London
  • 2016: Long Shadows
  • 2017: Live At The Brook - John Illsley Band (DVD)
  • 2019: Coming Up For Air

Web links

Commons : John Illsley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I really was in Dire Straits ... but now I've beaten the cancer I hid for 15 years: John Illsley tells for the first time how he was saved from chronic leukaemia Daily Mail, online edition, May 17, 2014
  2. ^ "Dire Straits" bassist John Illsley in Bonn , accessed on February 20, 2016
  3. ^ Illsley, John / Coming Up For Air (Blue Barge Records). March 22, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Illsley, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester , England