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John Illsley

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John Illsley was the founding bass player with the legendary 120 million album selling Dire Straits and contributing vocalist to their Communiqué, Making Movies and Brothers in Arms albums until the group dissolved in 1995. John has released four albums of his own: Never Told A Soul (1984) and Glass (1988) while performing with Dire Straits, then Beautiful You (2008) and the best yet, Streets of Heaven (2010). After Dire Straits disbanded, John had retired from music and moved to rural Hampshire with his family to focus on his other passion

Top songs

  1. It's a Long Way Back
  2. Streets Of Heaven
  3. Toe The Line
  4. Only Time Will Tell
  5. Young Girl
  6. Railway Tracks
  7. Big Top
  8. In The Darkness
  9. Sometimes
  10. Close To The Edge
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  1. When God Made Time
  2. Comes Around Again
  3. Tell Me
  4. Banks Of The River
  5. I Thought I Saw It Coming
  6. No Way To Say Goodbye
  7. Nothing to Do
  8. Is It Real
  9. Testing the Water
  10. Foreign Land
  11. I Love You Still
  12. Morning
  13. Darling Heart
  14. Run for Cover
  15. This Is Your Voice
  16. Ship Of Fools
  17. Never Told a Soul
  18. Lay Me Down
  19. Old Amsterdam
  20. So It Goes
  21. Wondering
  22. Which Way is Up
  23. Boy with Chinese Eyes
  24. High Stakes
  25. Long Shadow
  26. I Want To See The Moon
  27. When Things Go Right
  28. 21st Century
  29. The Night Cafe
  30. Red Turns To Blue
  31. Let the River Flow
  32. All I Want Is You
  33. The World Is Made Of Glass
  34. Double Time
  35. The Mission Song
  36. There's Something About You
  37. Jimmy on the Central Line
  38. Market Town
  39. another Alibi
  40. Coming Up for Air
  41. None of This Was Planned
  42. Let's Dance
  43. Northern Land
  44. I'm Only Sleeping
  45. She Wants Everything
  46. Star For Now
  47. Wild One
  48. Sultans Of Swing
  49. Picking Up the Pieces
  50. First We Take Manhattan
  51. Papermen
  52. Sultans of Swing - Live
  53. I thought I say it coming
  54. Once Upon A Time In The West
  55. Walk of Life - Live
  56. Once Upon a Time in the West - Live
  57. Walk Of Life
  58. Paperman
  59. Money For Nothing
  60. Six Blade Knife
  61. First We Take Manhattan - Live
  62. Expresso Love
  63. Southern Man
  64. Money for Nothing - Live
  65. Toe the Line - Live
  66. Another Brick in the Wall - Live
  67. Brothers in Arms - Live
  68. Secret Garden
  69. There’s Something About You
  70. Private Investigations - Live
  71. One
  72. Romeo and Juliet - Live
  73. Bright Lights Big City
  74. Streets of Heaven - Live
  75. Young Girl - Live
  76. Cocaine
  77. I Thought I Saw It Coming - Live
  78. When Thing Go Right
  79. Forever Young
  80. When God Made Time - Live
  81. Shine
  82. Demons
  83. Is It Real - Live
  84. Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)
  85. Instrumental
  86. Mrs. Robinson
  87. Another Brick in the Wall
  88. Private Investigations
  89. Loving You
  90. The Night Café

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