"Sultans of Swing" was one of the first rock songs I have a memory of. My older sister had a record called
70s Gold that she got when I was about 5, and it had that song on it. I think the reason I remember the title so well was that I was learning to read and we had a
Star Wars read-along record. Right next to it were the music records, and I tried to "read" them too by looking at the titles. I could easily read titles like "We Are Family" and "Gold", but I had to ask about "sultans." Once I got an explanation for "sultan," I tried to picture sultans on swings on the playground, and didn't understand. I asked it I could listen to the song even though it was my sister's LP. My mom, presumably trying to encourage me in my efforts to read, said yes...
only to discover while listening to it with me that it had a cuss word in it. Horrified, she got rid of the album. When she told my sister that her LP was gone forever... well, it was an ugly scene, almost as ugly as when my little sister accidentally ruined my older sister's Leif Garrett 8-track when attempting to play it without supervision. Yes, I remember it well.