Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits

When Dire Straits formed in 1977 they produced music which was different from the punk and stadium rock which surrounded them, creating a stripped back, cleanly produced, guitar based sound. At first their debut Dire Straits (1978) looked set to bomb, but it was championed by the label and eventually went platinum across Europe, helped in part by the memorable single “Sultans of Swing”.