George Borowski is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter, who has gained an indirect claim to immortality as Guitar George, a guitar player in the Dire Straits hit "Sultans of Swing", who may have been a reference to Borowski. He was born in 1950, in Wrexham in North Wales to Russian and Polish parents. He is a great-nephew of the Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov.

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  • George Borowski is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter, who has gained an indirect claim to immortality as Guitar George, a guitar player in the Dire Straits hit "Sultans of Swing", who may have been a reference to Borowski. He was born in 1950, in Wrexham in North Wales to Russian and Polish parents. He is a great-nephew of the Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov. His family later moved to the north-west of England, where, as a teenager, he taught himself to play guitar, and played in a number of short-lived bands. After some years of this, while playing for a group known as The Out in Manchester, he was complimented by Mark Knopfler. The lyrics to the Dire Straits song Guitar George are often falsely cited as a tribute to George when in fact they were written before the two had ever met. Over the years that followed, George played with several other well-known musicians, including Sad CafĂ©, Meat Loaf and Teenage Fanclub. George has toured as a guitar tech and additional musician with bands such as Pixies and Teenage Fanclub, all of whom speak very highly of him.
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  • George Borowski is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter, who has gained an indirect claim to immortality as Guitar George, a guitar player in the Dire Straits hit "Sultans of Swing", who may have been a reference to Borowski. He was born in 1950, in Wrexham in North Wales to Russian and Polish parents. He is a great-nephew of the Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov.
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  • George Borowski
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