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MK liked the irony of the band's grandiose name as opposed to the pub's less than salubrious surroundings. They lived in Deptford, so thats an easy (and lazy) mistake to make. Not Ipswich, like above, or Deptford like most of the internet.

Paul from LondonJohn is right - it is indeed about a band that MK once saw play in a near deserted pub in Greenwich.

Blacker from NisWhat is the STORY behind changing of pitch and tempo speed at 2:36 then it goes back to normal at 2:43 ()Ĭ'mon someone have to explain this, or I am deluded it's realy happening :).

PLAY THE SONGS OF SULTAN MOVIE

Yuming from ChinaThis song is presented in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody before QUEENs went up and play, please update this ester egg.Joe from Uk Apparently, it cost Dire Straights just £125- to record sultans of swing! (recording studio cost) back in 1978.So if even Mark is unsure I don't believe anybody can really be sure. In the first Dire Straits Biography (unofficial) the Author mentions a pub in Ipswich. Bob F from ManchesterMark, when talking to Brian Johnson (AC/DC) says he saw the Sultans of Swing band in Deptford or Greenwich.For me, Mark Knopfler's guitar virtuosity was a welcome antidote to the unrelenting disco dross that was stifling the airwaves at the time. Birdman_euston from London, UkA top-10 radio hit in North America in 1979.Try Wiki or Discogs these at least are peer-reviewed and have some roots in the real world. I mean, George Young and Harry Vander (Easybeats, Flash and the Pan) playing Jazz in a pub in Deptford? "And the Sultans, they played New Wave"… FFS! Unless this site is an utter piss-take and I’ve missed the joke, don’t’ waste any more time on it. It staggers me how such patently made-up nonsense can be passed off as ‘songfacts’.

Mike from UkMark was originally called Mark Nopfler but record executives never read down lists on lists of new demos as far as ‘N’ so he added a K so his name would appear further up alphabetically lists but without changing how it was pronounced.

Saddo from NorthamptonPeter from northampton I used to drink with freinds of mine visiting depford united sports and social freinds club in depford weekends mark and his group played there.harry was the landlord and my o my could he play the honkeytonk like anything on a friday night and we was the crowd of young boys in the all fits in to the song.

The session work he did in Memphis was in the late '80s and early '90s when he was on a break from Dire Straits. Also, the timeline doesn't sync: Mark Knopfler didn't come to America until after the album was released. Knopfler has never made mention of him, and Wilson is not credited for any contribution to the song. It is unlikely that Wilson's account is true. Then he starts playing an acoustic guitar, strumming Spanish style and singing "Sultans." The lyrics are pretty close to what Mark Knopfler recorded but are slightly different. Made enough money to buy a new Blazer that year I remember, so. So we got together one night after the session and tossed these lyrics around on a napkin and I guess I wound up writing most of the lyrics to the tune. It sounded like 'Walk, Don't Run.' And he had this little story concerning a band that nobody wanted to listen to. Has his own group over there called Dire Straits.

Before Wilson plays the song he says the following: "I do this thing I co-wrote about, I guess, it's been about 12 years ago I wrote the lyrics and a friend of mine used to work a lot of sessions for my old producer, Bob Johnston, and worked a session with this fellow from England by the name of Mark Knopfler. There is an asterisk after his name and on the CD it says that this was from a live show performed at The Warehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

One of the tracks is Wilson (identified only as "B. He would often tell the story in concert, which was recorded for a 24-track CD that was released by a production company which recorded various artists between 1989-1995. A singer-songwriter from Indiana named Bill Wilson, who died in 1993, claimed that he wrote the lyrics to this song.