“It just brings you to tears”: David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Alex Lifeson, Slash and more join forces for epic new recording of Mark Knopfler’s Going Home

The new all-star recording of Mark Knopfler’s debut solo single will raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America

Mark Knopfler has recruited arguably the greatest line-up of guitarists ever to appear on a single song, for a new recording of his classic 1983 solo single Going Home (Theme from Local Hero).

The truly astonishing line-up of talent on the single, which will be released under the project name Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes on March 15 on BMG to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America, includes David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Wood, Brian May, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton, Joan Jett, Joan Armatrading, Alex Lifeson, Hank Marvin, Slash, Tom Morello, and the very last recording by the late Jeff Beck. It was produced by Knopfler’s longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher.

“What I really want to do, more than anything else, is just to thank each and every one for this sterling response,” says former Dire Straits frontman Knopfler. “I really had no idea that it was going to be like this. It hit Guy and I quite early on that we had to extend this piece somehow, to take in the number of people who joined in.