Ed Bicknell says that people ask him regularly when Dire Straits are going to get back together. It was first recorded as a demo at Pathway Studios, North London, and quickly acquired a following after it was put in the rotation at Radio London. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. “He was actually rather humble at that point – hard for me to imagine now. We had an 8 piece band for our 5 hour reception, and they kept up the energy the entire time! Alan Freed played trombone in his band named Sultans of Swing. After that we were sat in the pub one night and decided to start our own band. The group had a record deal with RCA but were in the process of falling apart. Musician/Band. The Sultans of Swing are the PERFECT wedding band. In retrospect it sounds like a logical step forward: Wexler’s sheen bringing Knopfler’s textured melodies into sharper focus, heard to best effect on Once Upon A Time In The West and the quick-stepping Lady Writer, each as coolly embracing as a Bahamian sunset. At the same time, David Knopfler moved to London to work as a social worker in Deptford, a down-at-heel neighbourhood south of the Thames. The album sold more than a million copies on CD alone, taking Dire Straits to a new generation of consumers who saw music a status symbol. “Sultans of Swing” was a song about some guys who had a band on the weekend that could have been written about any cover band in any town in the world, not just a band … Alchemy Project. The issues between him and Mark, which for public consumption have been packaged up as musical issues, they weren’t. "Sultans of Swing" was a lesson in prosody and tasty guitar playing that has seldom been equaled since. Special categories include big band classics, swing, ethnic, ballroom, Latin, Sinatra, Gershwin, dixieland, jazz blues. Jerry Bennett Entertainment is a nationally sought after event music company based on Martha's Vineyard. This comes from the group’s double album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live , which emerged from two performances at London’s Hammersmith Odeon theater in July 1983 Today, about three decades after the band’s inception, The Sultans comprise a family of players whose resumes are staggering. Or if it has, you’re so terrified of it that you don’t spend anything, which is what happened with us. But they would have preferred us to be architects or lawyers, not ‘My son the unemployed strummer’.”. "[2], The lyrics were inspired by a performance of a jazz band playing in the corner of an almost empty pub in Deptford, South London. 8 on the UK Singles Chart and No. The moment he walks through the door, Dire Straits’ 1980 hit Romeo And Juliet begins playing on the radio. The song was then re-recorded in February 1978 at Basing Street Studios for the band's eponymous debut album. “But he was the bloke I’d shared a bedroom with. Tensions within the band were brewing, intensified by the claustrophobia engendered by being constantly on the road or in the studio, and arising most damagingly between the two brothers. [16], Record Mirror named "Sultans of Swing" the tenth-best song of 1978. The album was rushed out less than a year after their debut, to a cooler response and slower sales. The Spokane Chronicle's Jim Kershner wrote that "Sultans of Swing" is "remarkable, both for its lyrics that made fun of hip young Londoners and the phenomenal g… They embarked on another mammoth tour on the back of it, playing close to 300 shows in two years. Ángel Miguel & The Travellers. When it was roused, as on the crashing chords of The Man’s Too Strong, the effect was that much more magnified. Writing in 2013 on the impact of the song, Rick Moore of American Songwriter reflected: With "Sultans of Swing" a breath of fresh air was exhaled into the airwaves in the late '70s. I remember I was wearing a long suede coat with a nylon fur collar that night. The song was originally released in May 1978, but it did not chart at the time. “I didn’t know what to say: I just sat and stared at the ground in complete disbelief. If you aren't familiar with "Sultans of Swing" or haven't listened to it in a while, you should definitely check it out. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. “I’d like to try something else now,” he said at the time. by the Clash and Talking Heads’ Remain In Light to name but four. Balding and outwardly taciturn, he seemed born to the role of sideman. He traced the arc of Marvin’s distinctive sound back to American wizards like Chet Atkins, Elvis’s guitar slingers Scotty Moore and James Burton, and blues greats such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf. 16-member big band, trumpeter David Berger… LOS ANGELES TIMES The music’s strongest proponents – David Berger among them – took to swing music decades before Brian Setzer became chic … the Sultans’ playfully good-nature romping will inspire those who are fleet of foot. “We didn’t talk about it, we just got on with it and it evolved,” says David Knopfler (below, with Mark). The brothers had an explosive argument and David Knopfler quit. After Brothers In Arms Knopfler retreated from the spotlight for the best part of five years, but was eventually tempted back. “Everything changes, of course, but you stay the same. During that time Knopfler left the paper to take a degree in English at Leeds University, and married his school sweetheart, Kathy White. Musician/Band. “I listened to two songs that night and turned to John and said: ‘He’s got a red Stratocaster like Hank Marvin’s. Knopfler’s second marriage disintegrated, and he recoiled from the dehumanising nature of existing on such a grand scale. Paul Rees He returned to Newcastle. Air Studios, later razed to the ground by a hurricane, was an idyllic location, and the tranquillity of island life seemed to relax Knopfler to his task. It was recorded in Malmo, Sweden at the end of a Scandinavian road trip in September 2005. Dire Straits became a byword for a certain sort of safe, homogenised music, and Knopfler was turned into a caricature of the middle-aged rocker, with jacket sleeves rolled up and wearing a headband. The teaching job gave Knopfler a lifeline and disposable income. 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Fortuitously, Bicknell too had had his road-to-Damascus moment with music through The Shadows. With 4-9 pieces, the Sultans of Swing play music from the 20s-1961 in authentic styles. “It could be acoustic guitar, or it could be all brass instruments, I really don’t know.”. Musician/Band. Private Investigations was even more outlandish, a somnolent musical noir that Knopfler insisted be released unedited as a seven-minute single. Wexler smoothed the rougher edges of their sound. “It would give world chart positions, and album and singles sales figures. But I detest fame. Knopfler’s songs were characterised by the intricacies of his guitar playing, the rolling gait of the band’s rhythms and by their open spaces, as uncluttered as prairie lands. It was almost like jazz for the layman. It was a success from the off, going Top 10 all across Europe. [4][5] Wilson did not get a songwriting credit on the release,[4] but claimed to have received some monetary compensation for his input. [3], Folk singer and Columbia recording artist Bill Wilson (1947–1993) claimed to have co-written the song. The coda of the live recording on the 1984 album Alchemy stretches the song to nearly 11 minutes. 62. ... a track called "Sultans of Swing." Find out more at www.thesultansofswing.co.uk Knopfler introduced his brother and Illsley to Pick Withers, a propulsive drummer he’d first met while doing an aborted session with Rod Clements of Lindisfarne. He didn’t have the confidence he acquired later as a musician, and didn’t see himself as a singer at all. Musician/Band. None of them needs the money. By the end of it the endless attention and the sheer weight of numbers had lost all meaning for the band members, and for Mark Knopfler most of all. How could I be deferential to him?”. Two months later Knopfler was out of a job, destitute and newly divorced, the move to London having brought about the end of his marriage. In large part it was hushed and melancholy, a sigh rather than a roar. At its core, Money For Nothing was an old-school boogie, but a dash of studio polish, Sting’s mannered backing vocal and a computer-generated promo video were enough to turn it, and Dire Straits themselves, into the very embodiment of 80s naff. When Bennett formed The Sultans (formerly known as The Sultans of Swing) with some of his buddies on the Vineyard in 1993, the band’s tour lineup was primarily local bars like The Ritz Café and one wedding a month, with Susan Tedeschi of the Tedeschi Trucks Band as their lead vocalist. What’s happening?’”. Musician/Band. This article is about the Dire Straits song. Dylan came to see their show in LA, popping backstage afterwards to ask Knopfler to play on his next album, Slow Train Coming. His idea was that he would be the guitar player behind somebody else.”. [23] The song reached the top 10 in both the UK and the U.S., reaching No. MTV was about to launch in the UK, and the music station leapt upon the animated promo for Money For Nothing, choosing it as the first video to be aired on the channel. Upon its release, Brothers In Arms met with lukewarm reviews, but it arrived at precisely the right time. I don't think that somebody of this group ever came forward. You will receive a verification email shortly. Following a rather grubby performance, the band haughtily announced their name: “We are the Sultans of Swing.” So here is a live performance by Dire Straits of Sultans of Swing . The newly christened four-piece played their first gig together in the summer of 1977. Bicknell had taken his first steps into the music business at Hull University in the 60s, where as social secretary he booked gigs by the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Who and Pink Floyd before joining the prestigious NEMS agency that handled such heavyweight clients as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Elton John. Later he took a post as an English lecturer at Loughton College in Essex, and put together his own pub-rock band, the Café Racers. I don’t know what he does. Sure, Donald Fagen and Tom Waits were writing great lyrics about characters you'd love to meet and Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen were great guitar players. It was all over after that last gig in Zaragoza, but he formally laid the band to rest in 1996 and has barely spoken of them since. Juno award nominee and Billboard charting band Sultans of String creates “energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” (Maverick, UK). "Sultans of Swing" was re-recorded in February 1978 at Basing Street Studios for the debut album Dire Straits, produced by Steve Winwood's brother Muff Winwood. Soon he’d taught himself the basics and was playing in school bands and on the city’s club circuit. It sounded worn and tired, but still racked up 10 million sales. "Sultans of Swing" was the first single release of the British rock band Dire Straits.. It began with a fuzzed guitar riff that Ed Bicknell suspects was inspired by ZZ Top, and proceeded to recount verbatim a rant at MTV that Knopfler had overheard a deliveryman making in an electrical goods store in New York. “But he hadn’t developed his own style. You think the tax man is going to take it away or that this is going to stop tomorrow.”, Bicknell suggests that the tension between the Knopflers ran deeper than Dire Straits. Bath DC,MD,VA. “I spent a lot of time doing therapy and dealing with my issues and ghosts and demons,” says David Knopfler. Among the five Mark Knopfler originals on the tape were Sultans Of Swing, a loose-limbed account of watching a hapless jazz combo flailing in a London pub, and a languorous shuffle titled Down To The Waterline. The two of them hit it off and began performing together as an acoustic duo called Duolian Stringpickers, and spent the next few years playing gigs in the north-east. “David’s problem was he thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship – as far as he was concerned. Visit our corporate site. Different band members are described like "Guitar George" and "Harry" with some back story. He is credited with coining the term "Rock and Roll" on his radio show in Cleveland in the early '50s. At the end of their performance, the lead singer announced their name, the Sultans of Swing; Knopfler found the contrast between the group's dowdy appearance and surroundings and their grandiose name amusing. Towards the end of 1984 Knopfler assembled a new line-up of Dire Straits in London to rehearse their next record. The band drove themselves around the States on their first tour of the country at the start of 1979. Illsley smiles at the coincidence and suggests – entirely accurately – that the 35-year-old song sounds as if it had been made just yesterday. 403 likes. Our guests are still raving about how talented the vocalists and musicians were, and how wonderful of a party they created for us! Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! His brother and future Dire Straits bandmate David followed three years later. Of course, it casts a huge shadow on both our lives and on our families. Music was a fact of life in the Knopfler house. It uses a chord progression of Dm–C–B♭–A for the verses, and F–C–B♭ for the choruses. Yet his formidable talent was yoked to an iron will. His answer remains the same. Their father was an architect expelled from his native Hungary on account of his firebrand socialism. He and his brother are still not speaking. The demo of the song was recorded at Pathway Studios, North London, in July 1977 and quickly acquired a following after it was put in rotation on BBC Radio London. Musician/Band. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, A love letter to a city: How Alice Cooper and Bob Ezrin made Detroit Stories, Geoff Tate gives the fans what they want on Sweet Oblivion' Relentless, Cheap Trick's In Another World is one of their best albums yet, Tough It Out Live is proof that FM are still the finest AOR band the UK has ever produced, The Underfall Yard by Big Big Train: burnished and soulful. In their slot between U2 and Queen, they started with Money For Nothing (joined by Sting), and then came an epic version of the song that made them superstars: Sultans Of Swing. In this hothouse atmosphere the Knopflers were soon at each other’s throats. Reportedly, the band was very bad. Like that record it had the same connection to time and place. Perhaps least of all he anticipated making one of the defining albums of the decade. A brash New Yorker just off the back of making hit records with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, Iovine had a painstaking way of working; the first week of recording was spent attempting to get the perfect drum sound. [6] The riff uses triads, particularly second inversions. [citation needed] The B-side, "Eastbound Train", is a live track that otherwise only appears on the Live at the Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival album. BA1 1UA. Returning home to the Deptford council flat he was sharing with his younger brother David and bassist John Illsley, Knopfler began writing a song for the new band they’d just formed. Mark Knopfler was born into a middle-class household in Glasgow in 1949. “But then I think both Mark and I had a different vision of what we were up to. Two months later, Dire Straits signed a recording contract with Phonogram Records.[9]. It was also included on Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits and The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations. “I remember him coming into the office and playing it to me for the first time,” says Ed Bicknell. “On one hand our parents were horrified that we wanted to make a career of pop music,” David Knopfler says now. Yet one of Knopfler’s new songs immediately stood out from the rest. For the ensuing tour Knopfler brought in American guitarist Hal Lindes to fill his brother’s shoes and fellow Geordie Alan Clark on keyboards. He was married for the third time, to actress Kitty Aldridge in 1997, and continues to indulge his lifelong passion for motorbikes and collecting classic cars. With the band laid to rest, John Illsley settled down to indulge his love of painting and is currently preparing an exhibition of his work in London. You’re probably still in your horrible little flat eating bacon sandwiches because none of the money has flowed through. "Sultans of Swing" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, written by frontman Mark Knopfler. Breakthrough with 'Sultans of Swing' The band name referred to its members' initial financial situation. Fired by the extra dimension Bittan brought into play, Knopfler subverted his guitar to the songs, and in doing so extracted from them greater heft and a new-found emotional resonance. Tatito Tv. At the time of its release it represented a crossing of the Rubicon for Mark Knopfler as a songwriter and for the band in general. Its popularity soon reached record executives, and Dire Straits were offered a contract with Phonogram Records. [21] Guitar World ranked its guitar solo at the 22nd greatest, and Rolling Stone named it the 32nd greatest guitar song. I thought the band was about to break up.”. “I would do a report for them every week which was then shoved under each of their hotel room doors,” says Ed Bicknell. By In addition to offering their services in the Sunshine State, they also have members based in the Northeast. But Knopfler, he could do both things as well or better than anybody out there in his own way, and didn't seem to have any obvious rock influences unless you try to include Dylan. Theirs was no fleeting moment, either, with three more hit records following before they reached their apogee on their fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms. But it was damned by having its signature single explode out of context. Musician/Band. In quick time Knopfler was fêted by the rock aristocracy. As John Illsley said to me at the time: ‘This has been going on since David was born.’ I’m stating the obvious, but David was in the group because he was Mark’s brother, not because he was the greatest rhythm guitarist that Mark could have found.”. Emerging from the city’s fertile pub-rock scene at the dawn of the punk era, they were an overnight sensation. I’m absolutely sure in my own mind that Mark would take his copy and put it straight in the bin.”. It was a vast undertaking and also a ruinous one. Free from the confines of the studio, Dire Straits were able to stretch out and take flight, nowhere more so than on Sultans Of Swing and Telegraph Road. The simple facts are these: Knopfler formed Dire Straits in London in 1977 with his younger brother David on rhythm guitar, John Illsley on bass and Pick Withers on drums. Dire Straits Over Gold. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. Hindustan is the fourth recording of composer/arranger/conductor David Berger and his band, The Sultans of Swing. [24] Another live version of the song came at the 1988 Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert in London when Eric Clapton teamed up with the band to play the song, providing rhythm guitar.In 2018, Leo Moracchioli made a heavy metal cover of the song, and has reached over 30 million views on YouTube. May 26, 2018 - Explore Donna Anderson's board "Dire Straits", followed by 187 people on Pinterest. One of his first tasks for the paper was to write Jimi Hendrix’s obituary in September 1970, handed to him on account of him being the only person in the office young enough to know who Hendrix was. What was forgotten in the wake of its stellar success was just how striking and sometimes radical Dire Straits had seemed from their inception. Knopfler saw this as the end of an era for the band. Making Movies stood at least shoulder to shoulder with each of them. 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