Knopfler, Mark - Sultans Of Swing Lyrics

at a latchkey kid back in the 80's I grew up on MTV and Dire Straights.

El Más Grande!!! Respeto Absoluto Maestro....🙏🏻

As a guitarist I watched my dad play guitar and was inspired. But there was always this one song he played. Later on as I was more experienced in guitar I could not explain it to him what that song was that made me wanna play, when I was 22 I heard this song on the radio and it was it! Crazy how a instrument can inspire someone and have that one distinct riff that connected them to the instrument of choice. Music is special.

Mark has real wicked quitar skills...

I don't like them.


I love them.

One of the most influential guitarist and musician as a whole. And on top of it all he's such a down to earth man. Mark is a great example.

Thank you for the amazing iconic music you have given us sir. This song is like the punch card, a key that unlocks some of the most precious memories for me.
This is what music should be!💪

One of the greatest music of all times! Its Just surreal! Mark knopfler is like a good old wine, Just get better with age!

Sounded like he was mixing a touch of Monlight Shadow with Sultans of Swing if you listen carefully.

A MELODY MASTER !....////

We are so fortunate to have empathetic songwriters.

Parece que o Mark tá tomando um cafézinho. Feeling total e intimidade com o instrumento.

What said his wife? 🤔 i cant understand it.
Excuse me . Im not an native speaker 🤣

She asked if he played the twiddling guitar part at the end

The part right at 3:31

Yes keep playin the Twidly bits!!!!!!!!

слишком много болтает попусту...

Mark is the best

Mark is a god!!!

It's a helluva gift we get for just listening.
Thank you

“They’re landmarks... they’re milestones in their lives” They are time capsules opening in the mind.

The blue suit and red Strat just... wow... classy!

Le meilleur guitariste au monde

Hey mark you stil have the same fender

El Rey, sin duda. Hace lo que quiere con una guitarra. Tuve la inmensa fortuna de verle en Madrid el pasado año, en su "ultima gira" (espero que no), tocando clásicos de los DS, como Romeo & Juliet, Money for Nothing,... Un sueño hecho realidad. Sigue componiendo, Mark, lo necesitamos!!

Magical!

Mark never played the solo as how it was written, not even once, just improvisations. He's really good but can't say he's a guitar God without hearing him play like the original. Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, they all play their songs just pinpoint straight as how it was written, with little to no improvisations.

È incredibile. Le sue mani "cresciute" come è cresciuto lui, si muovono in modo "apparentemente "incerto"... eppure le note sono quelle e così pure il sound. Un vero mito.

Can you imagine what he could do with " The Star Spangled Banner" ?

Another pig just went flying by !

Máximo respeito 👌

Love to just sit around and bullshit with this dude..

Esse cara toca né mesmo galera?

Prince will kick ass anytime on the guitar

Of course it is nice to have an evening with Mark, when he opens up and tell some tales about his career, his life and his songs - it is fun and interresting....but I prefer him playing the whole song, in general.

True, but there's plenty of videos of that. This is a nice change of pace. I've got a lot of time for anything Mark has to say.

The best guitar player ever!!

The best!!!

Mark knopfler . Não toca nada . Ele brinca com a guitarra .. Talento não e pra quem quer , e pra quem já nasce

We used to get naked to this song in the army.... SQUADRON!!!!

Thank you. Fresh Rose's! What a sweet smell!

No you killed it legitimately and legally noone can shred in your provenance

Hats off to the sound guy

Grew up with this song. Always listening to this. EVERYTIME! This song always brings me back.

Não tem pra ninguém!! MK melhor músico do planeta!!❤🇧🇷 O BRASIL ama você!!!❤❤❤❤🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🦅

It's 2020 and still my favorite🖤💙💘

Марк ты лучший!!!👏👏👏

This is the first song I remember hearing as a child. Must've been about 4 years old, it always stuck with me, especially the outro. Amazing song.

Is that Paul Turner on bass?

Mark when u pick up guitar no one challenges u

This guy is mindblowing 😁😁😁 i like his musicality.

Thanks Mark for the music that's been apart of my life for more than 40yrs.
(There's 3more fingers pointing back at you)

A true master of the craft

Bravooooooooooooo

Mestre...

Bob Dylan should take lesson from Mark

Crazy about what he has to say

He's a legend!!!!!

3:31 the twiddly bits

Monstro !

god bless you

As said on other page, Great guitarist!

Sensational!!!

How many fingers quid ya fit?

Wasim Akram is the sultan of swing..

Got myself a vinyl player, my dad helped me set it up. And the first thing I played was Sultans of Swing

Mark Knopfler is just a god period

Milestones. So correct . i can remember where i was the first time i heard this.

What I would give to be able to play like that

This comment always cracks me up?
Why can YOU NOT play like that?
Did you even take lessons? and do you have any idea how many musicians DO play like that and are starving?

mickavellian so elderly

1:57 😍

a big fan of dire strait ,

Mark deserves credit as a shred guitarist and be up there with hendrix and slash cause he definitely innovates on the guitar

That one of those giving teast to life

too much talking👎... Just play the song damn

Spot on mark

What a performer and all round good guy and what a song

Lionel Messi lovitura libera:)

Let your fingers do the talking yellow pages

Grande! Bellissima canzone!

Mark Knopfler is for that guys that insist to say that there is a "right way" to play the guittar. Right way is for newbies. "Make it rock", is the only thing that matters for the Sultans of Swing.

they still let George hang around

@neal kelly Sure!!!

Waoooo nunca me canso de admirar este bellisimo tema de este gran artista maestro de la guitarra

He was born to do it

Ох Маркуша, ты лучший, хуле тут

This reminds me of comedy for drummers by Fred Armisen. One day, I'll learn guitar, but you guys can't keep time. ;-)

Absolute legend

"Old songs are landmarks for people and they use them..they use them to live with" Mark knopfler
what a soul 💜🙏

If old songs are landmarks Sultans is the Rocky Mountains (or insert your favorite massive landmark).

so true but i never thought about it till right then

My dad got me into you guys....never looked back!! me and mty dad time ( miss you dad) rip xxxx

Engenheiro do

Engenheiro

Peep the head shake at 3:19

My idol guiterist

Just look at his tone!!!!
Incredible, sweet tone!

I was 13 when my life in music permanently changed. From mainstream pop, I was introduced to this song with a crazy simple rhythm section and a crazy complex yet simple solo that would ring in my head for the next 25 years everytime I would look for inspiration in music, and inspiration later on in writing music.

That song is Sultans of Swing. It is a landmark of a song in my life because it was the song that laid the foundation for my journey into music production and the genre of heavy metal.

I absolutely love that song. And I'm sure people who hear it for the first time all these years later do as well.

Ive been watching the Live Aid concerts 1985,Absolutely EPIC!!! Bowie Heroes OMG!! U2 BAD and blooody sunday,Dire Straits,ERIC Clapton White Room JFK!!! truly amazing

hate the wooden lot in front rows, if you'd hit me with sultans I'd be up regardles

Wow....

Mark! you need a podcast! about whatever you want it to be!

Didn't know guitar can make me sit in one place

Thanks for helping fill our needs over the years...

Every time I have moved and found a new place to live, the first song I always play is "Sultans of swing". It's not really a home before. It's just as amazing as the first time I heard it in 1978 :)

I could listen to this guy all day long.