![]() “Sultans of Swing” was initially recorded as a demo in 1977 and soon got some play at BBC Radio. ![]() “It just came alive as soon as I played it on that ’61 Strat-which remained my main guitar for many years and was basically the only thing I played on the first album-and the new chord changes just presented themselves and fell into place.” “I thought it was dull, but as soon as I bought my first Strat in 1977, the whole thing changed, though the lyrics remained the same,” he said. ![]() The fingerstyle master originally wrote it on a National Steel guitar in an open tuning, he once explained to Guitar World. Using his 1961 Stratocaster, Knopfler first breaks off into solo territory with a half-minute of precise scales, comes out of the solo for another verse, and then returns for another 40 seconds of faster, more freewheeling arpeggios that take the song to the next level.īut had Knopfler never picked up his Strat, “Sultans” might have never reached those heights. ![]()
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