"Sultans of Swings"

Whenever we listen to some songs of "Dire Straits"my brother asked me for the name of the band.
What does it really mean and how was created?
I`m in dire straits-means that I`m in big trouble.
Well...Apparently these young people in the team were founded 1977 was in trouble?
And so it was!
The name was invented by a friend of the drummer, and the main reason was poor situation of the team.



Their first single is called "Sultans of Swings" and was aired by Radio London and heard by Phonogram Records, which signed a contract with the group.
In 1978 was released their first album with the song "Sultans of Swings".

You get a shiver in the dark
It's 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 alright when you hear the music ring

And now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Oh but the horns they blowing that sound
Way on down south, way on down south London town

You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords
but he's strictly rhythm he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing
Yes 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 the honky tonk 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... yeah the Sultans play Creole

Creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
'Goodnight, now it's time to go home'
And he makes it fast with one more thing
'We are the Sultans... We are the Sultans of Swing'

Lyrics by Mark Knopfler wrote in a rainy day in a pub in Ipswich, where was played old-fashioned jazz.A group that occurred in this pub was called "Sultans of Swings" exactly the same group that bore the brand was founded by him in college.

The lyrics were changed a few times and names, which were eventually replaced by the names of the team members "Dire Straits ".
And talks about the guys who play music because they love to do it, not for money.

 Look at those nimble fingers moving around the fretboard.
Who would not want to play like him?