Sultans of swing who is guitar george

Read times. I was reading an article from March in Q, and I saw that piece of information. Guitar George is a real person. Did you know about it? I don't the rule about putting up a photo of the article, but I can take a photo and send it to anyone interested. Jackal Guest. Nope, he isn't. Quite peculiar! On this whole page article, he sort of accepts that he is or might be THE guitar George. He also describes a meeting with MK, as a way to elaborate.

Maybe MK told him that he is not actually the guy and stop using it? Don't know what to assume. Thanks Jackal! Two men say they're Guitar George.

One of them must be wrong. Love Expresso Guest. Oh, is he a protest singer, singing a protest song?? The song tells the story of a swing band performing in a smoky club where most of the musicians had full time jobs and just play together for fun. That may well have been the case for the band that actually inspired Mark to pen this real life story with many hidden clues. You know they were rather tired little blokes in pullovers.

The Dixie double four time was a reference to the style the band were playing which was made popular by Les Paul in his early days and also Django Reinhardt. Do something to shake it up. Young was actually born in Glasgow same city as Knopfler but emigrated with his family to Australia when he was Knopfler at least left the pub with the seed of an idea. Even Knopfler thought it lacked spark. But the song took on a smouldering blues groove after he scrabbled enough money together to buy a Stratocaster.

And all good songs have a story. And thankfully they did. In those days one person at a radio station could really make a difference. Now that Sultans Of Swing was on constant rotation, record companies started to take note of this rumbling blues- rock tune about a rotten jazz band.