Knife

Frame wrote most of it in New Orleans on a four-track with a borrowed guitar, after meeting someone on the Elvis Costello tour. He said he had been in the indie ghetto since 16 and wanted to move on, and that Knopfler spent his time getting good guitar sounds. Eric Clapton lent them acoustic guitars, and Paul and Linda McCartney were recording in the same studio. The opening chords of All I Need Is Everything come from Jimmy Cliff's Many Rivers to Cross, and its single was backed with a cover of Van Halen's Jump. The album reached 14 in the UK, though NME's Peter Anderson found it too polished.