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It was almost like jazz for the layman. "Sultans of Swing" was a lesson in prosody and tasty guitar playing that has seldom been equaled since. If you aren't familiar with "Sultans of Swing" or haven't listened to it in a while, you should definitely check it out. [22] Record Mirror named "Sultans of Swing" the tenth-best song of 1978. [23]
[1] Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits is the second greatest hits compilation by the British rock band Dire Straits , released on 19 October 1998 by Mercury Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.
Dire Straits were a English rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals, lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Pick Withers (drums, percussion). The band was active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 1995. [2]
Joshua Lee Turner is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and internet personality based in Brooklyn, New York. [1] He is known for his eclectic guitar and vocal covers posted on his YouTube channel Josh Turner Guitar for which he and long time collaborator Carson McKee have gained millions of views.
The album was released in the US on 20 October 1978. [6] The first single released was "Sultans of Swing" which first broke into the United States top five early in the spring of 1979, becoming a hit a full five months after the album was released there, and then reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart.
The Sultans of Ping are an Irish band formed in 1988 by Niall O'Flaherty, Pat O'Connell, Paul Fennelly and Ger Lyons. [ 1 ] The band's name is a play on the 1978 Dire Straits song " Sultans of Swing ", dating from a time when "it was sacrilege to say anything whatsoever funny or nasty about Dire Straits".
Andy Eastwood (born 20 May 1979 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) [1] is a vaudeville entertainer and ukulele player. [2]His interest in the ukulele and banjolele began when his grandfather gave him his first instrument as a child, and after reading music at the University of Oxford, where he also studied violin and piano, he graduated as the historic university's first musician ever to give ...
The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.