Sultans of Swing

Dire Straits
"Sultans of Swing"



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You get a shiver in the dark

It's been raining in the park but meantime

South of the river you stop and you hold everything

A band is blowing Dixie double four time

You feel all right when you hear that music ring

You step inside but you don't see too many faces

Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down

Too much competition too many other places

But not too many horns can make that sound

Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town

You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords

Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing

And an old guitar is all he can afford

When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene

He's got a daytime job he's doing alright

He can play honky tonk just like anything

Saving it up for Friday night

With the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing

And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner

Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles

They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band

It ain't what they call rock and roll

And the Sultans played Creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone

And says at last just as the time bell rings

'Thank you goodnight now it's time to go home'

and he makes it fast with one more thing

'We are the Sultans of Swing'

No final da década de 70, o movimento Punk dominava a cena na Inglaterra e as bandas não se importavam mais em criar melodias e harmonias trabalhadas nas suas canções, pois o que o público queria era a atitude e rebeldia por parte dos músicos.Aheio a isso tudo, o até então professor Mark Knopfler, o seu irmão mais novo, o assistente social Davis Knopfler (ambos nascidos em Glasgow e criados em Newcastle) e o estudante de sociologia, John Illsey dividiam um apartamento em Deptfort, Londres, e começaram a ensaiar as músicas de Mark. Logo, uniram-se a Pick Whiters, ex-baterista dos estúdios Dave Edmund's Rockfield. Gravam uma demo tape com 5 temas e entregam a Charlie Gillett, locutor da Radio One. O disc-jockey toca a música "Sultans of Swing" no seu programa "Honky Tonking Show". John Stainze da Phonogram AA&R, escuta o programa e em pouco tempo os Dire Straits assinam contrato com a Vertigo.

Através de Stainze, os Straits contratam o empresário Jess Conrad, que consegue 16 datas para a banda na turnee britânica dos Talking Heads.

Em 1978, os Dire Straits gravam seu primeiro LP , que incluia o hit "Sultans of Swing".

Se for verdadeira tenho que vos dizer que prefiro a versão ao vivo do álbum duplo "Alchemy", sei cada acorde e solo de guitarra de cor, e o meu vinyl está transparente de tanto tocar...não vos minto!

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