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1985 single by Dire Straits

"Money for Nothing"
Money for Nothing single.JPG
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Brothers in Artillery
B-side "Dear over Gold" (Alive)
Released 28 May 1985[1]
Studio AIR (Montserrat)
Genre Pop rock
Length
  • eight:22 (total version)
  • seven:04 (vinyl LP edit)
  • 4:38 (official single edit)
  • 4:06 (promo unmarried edit)
Label Vertigo
Songwriter(southward)
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Sting
Producer(s)
  • Neil Dorfsman
  • Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits singles chronology
"So Far Abroad"
(1985) 		"Money for Nothing"
(1985) 		"Brothers in Arms"
(1985)
Music video
"Money for Nothing" on YouTube
Audio
"Money for Cypher" on YouTube

"Money for Nothing" is a song past British rock band Dire Straits, the 2d track on their fifth studio anthology, Brothers in Arms (1985). Information technology was released every bit the album'due south 2d single on 28 May 1985 through Vertigo Records. The song'due south lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by Sting singing groundwork vocals, providing both the signature falsetto introduction and backing chorus of "I want my MTV."[ii] The groundbreaking video was the showtime to be aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on i Baronial 1987.[3]

It was Dire Straits' virtually commercially successful single, peaking at number 1 for three weeks on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Top Stone Tracks chart and number 4 in the band's native Great britain. In July 1985, the month following its release, Dire Straits and Sting performed the song at Live Assist. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards in 1986, "Money for Nothing" won Best Stone Operation past a Duo or Grouping with Vocal and was nominated for Tape of the Twelvemonth and Vocal of the Yr as well. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video received 11 nominations, winning Video of the Twelvemonth and Best Group Video.

Composition [edit]

Music [edit]

"Money for Nothing" is a pop rock song.[four] Knopfler modeled his guitar sound on ZZ Summit guitarist Billy Gibbons' trademark guitar tone, as ZZ Tiptop's music videos were already a staple of early MTV. Gibbons told Timothy White of Musician in tardily 1985 that Knopfler had solicited Gibbons' aid in replicating the tone, adding, "He didn't practise a half-bad job, either, considering that I never told him a goddamned thing!"[v]

Following the initial sessions in Montserrat, at which that item guitar function was recorded, Neil Dorfsman attempted to recreate the sound during subsequent sessions at the Ability Station in New York merely was unsuccessful.[6]

The recording contains a very recognisable hook, in the form of the guitar riff that begins the vocal proper. The guitar riff continues throughout the song, played in permutation during the verses, and played in full after each chorus. The vocal's extended overture was shortened for radio and music video.

Lyrics [edit]

Mark Knopfler described the writing of the song in a 1984 interview with critic Pecker Flanagan:

The lead grapheme in "Money for Zilch" is a guy who works in the hardware section in a television receiver/​custom kitchen/​refrigerator/​microwave appliance shop. He's singing the song. I wrote the song when I was actually in the store. I borrowed a bit of newspaper and started to write the song down in the shop. I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real....[vii]

In 2000, Knopfler appeared on Parkinson on BBC One and explained again where the lyrics originated. According to Knopfler, he was in New York City and had visited an appliance store. At the back of the store was a wall of televisions which were all tuned to MTV. Knopfler then said there was a male employee dressed in a baseball game cap, work boots, and a checkered shirt delivering boxes who was continuing next to him watching. As they were continuing there watching MTV, Knopfler remembers the man coming up with lines such equally "what are those, Hawaiian noises?...that ain't workin'," etc. Knopfler and then requested a pen to write some of these lines down and then somewhen put those words to music.[7] The first-person narrating grapheme in the lyrics refers to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a adult female "stickin' in the camera, human we could accept some fun". He describes a vocaliser as "that niggling faggot with the earring and the brand-up", and bemoans that these artists get "coin for nothing and chicks for free".[8]

The songwriting credits are shared between Mark Knopfler and Sting.[nine] Sting has stated[ citation needed ] that his but compositional contribution was the "I want my MTV" line, which followed the tune from his song "Don't Stand So Close to Me". "Sting used to come to Montserrat to get windsurfing," recalled John Illsley, "and he came upwards for supper at the studio. We played him 'Coin for Zippo' and he turned circular and said, 'You've done it this time, yous bastards.' Marker said if he thought it was and then good, why didn't he get and add something to information technology. He did his bit there and and then."[x]

Music video [edit]

The song's music video features early figurer animation.

The music video for the song premiered on MTV on one June 1985[11] and features early reckoner animation illustrating the lyrics. The video was one of the first uses of computer-animated human characters and was considered groundbreaking at the fourth dimension of its release.[12]

Two other music videos are also featured within "Money for Zippo". The Hungarian pop band Első Emelet[13] and their video "Állj, Vagy Lövök!" ("Stop or I'll Shoot!") appears as "Baby, Infant" by "First Floor" during the 2d verse (The name "első emelet" translates to "first floor", and the song is credited as being on "Magyar Records": "Magyar" means "Hungarian" in the Hungarian linguistic communication.)[14] The other one is fictional, "Sally" past the "Ian Pearson Band". The fictional anthology for the showtime video was listed as "Plow Left" and the second was "Hot Dogs". For the second video, the record visitor appears as "Rush Records", and it was filmed on Fisherman'south Bastion, Budapest, Hungary.[fourteen] [xv]

Originally, Marker Knopfler was not at all enthusiastic about the concept of the music video. MTV, all the same, was insistent on it. Managing director Steve Barron, of Rushes Postproduction in London, was contacted by Warner Bros. to persuade Knopfler to relent. Describing the contrasting attitudes of Knopfler and MTV, he said:

The trouble was that Marker Knopfler was very anti-videos. All he wanted to practise was perform, and he thought that videos would destroy the purity of songwriters and performers. They said, "Can yous convince him that this is the correct affair to do, because nosotros've played this song to MTV and they call up it's fantastic but they won't play it if it's him standing there playing guitar. They need a concept."[xvi]

Barron and so flew to Budapest to convince Knopfler of their concept. Meeting together after a gig, Knopfler was reportedly still unimpressed, but this fourth dimension his girlfriend was nowadays and took a paw. According to Barron:

Luckily, his girlfriend said, "He's admittedly right. There aren't plenty interesting videos on MTV, and that sounds like a brilliant idea." Mark didn't say annihilation but he didn't make the call to go me out of Budapest. Nosotros merely went alee and did information technology.

Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair created the blitheness, using a Bosch FGS-4000 CGI organisation[17] and a Quantel Paintbox system.[18] The animators went on to plant estimator blitheness studio Mainframe Entertainment (today Mainframe Studios), and referenced the "Money for Nothing" video in an episode of their ReBoot series. The video also includes stage footage of Dire Straits performing, with partially rotoscoped blitheness in bright neon colours, equally seen on the embrace of the compilation album of the same name.

Notable performances [edit]

When Dire Straits performed "Money for Nothing" at the 1985 Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium, the performance featured a invitee appearance past Sting. Knopfler performed "Coin for Zippo" using his Pensa-Suhr signature MK-one model guitar with a pair of Soldano SLO-100 tube/valve amplifier heads and Marshall speaker cabinets[ original research? ] during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute and the Prince'south Trust concerts in 1986 with Sting,[nineteen] equally well equally the Nordoff-Robbins charity show at Knebworth in 1990 and the On Every Street world tours in 1991/1992. These versions featured extended guitar solos[ according to whom? ] by Knopfler, backed by Eric Clapton and Phil Palmer.

Reception [edit]

Rolling Stone listed the song equally the 94th greatest guitar song of all time, noting how Mark Knopfler "traded his pristine, rootsy tone for a dry out, over-processed sound achieved by running a Les Paul through a wah-wah pedal on a rail that became ane of the [MTV] network's earliest hits."[twenty] The video was awarded "Video of the Year" (among many other nominations) at the third annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1986.[17] [21]

Accolades [edit]

Nominations for "Coin for Nothing"
Yr Ceremony Nominated work Recipient(south) Category Issue
1986 Brit Awards "Coin for Aught" Dire Straits British Single of the Yr Nominated
British Video of the Twelvemonth Nominated
Grammy Awards[22] Best Rock Performance past a Duo or Group with Vocal Won
Dire Straits
Neil Dorfsman and Mark Knopfler, producers 		Tape of the Twelvemonth Nominated
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler and Sting, songwriters 		Song of the Year Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards[21] Steve Barron, art direction Best Art Management in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits All-time Concept Video Nominated
Steve Barron, director Best Management in a Video Nominated
David Yardley, editor Best Editing in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits All-time Experimental Video Nominated
Best Group Video Won
All-time Overall Performance in a Video Nominated
Best Stage Performance in a Video Nominated
Ian Pearson, special furnishings Best Visual Effects in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits Video of the Yr Won
Viewer's Choice Nominated

Controversial lyrical content [edit]

The lyrics for the song have been criticised equally being homophobic.[23] In a tardily 1985 interview in Rolling Rock magazine, Knopfler expressed mixed feelings on the controversy:

I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London – he really said information technology was beneath the belt. Autonomously from the fact that in that location are stupid gay people as well as stupid other people, it suggests that perchance you can't let information technology have so many meanings – you have to be direct. In fact, I'yard still in two minds as to whether information technology'south a skilful idea to write songs that aren't in the outset person, to take on other characters. The singer in "Money for Nothing" is a real ignoramus, difficult lid mentality – somebody who sees everything in fiscal terms. I mean, this guy has a grudging respect for stone stars. He sees information technology in terms of, well, that's not working and still the guy's rich: that'due south a good scam. He isn't sneering.[24]

Dire Straits oft performed the song in alive concerts and when on tour, where the second verse was included simply often altered slightly.[ citation needed ] For the band's ten July 1985 concert (televised in the United Kingdom on The Tube on Aqueduct 4 in January 1986[25]), Knopfler replaced the word faggot with queenie:[ original inquiry? ]

"Run across the little queenie got the earring and the brand-upward" and "That lilliputian queenie got his own jet plane, he'due south got a helicopter, he'due south a millionaire."

In January 2011, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled that the unedited version of the song was unacceptable for air play on private Canadian radio stations, as it breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' code of ethics and their equitable portrayal code.[26] [27] [28] The CBSC ended that "like other racially driven words in the English, 'faggot' is one that, even if entirely or marginally adequate in earlier days, is no longer so."[26] The CBSC's proceedings came in response to a radio listener'southward Ruling Request stemming from a playing of the vocal by CHOZ-FM in St. John'south, Newfoundland and Labrador, which in turn followed the radio listener'south dissatisfaction with the radio station's reply to their complaint about a gay slur in the lyrics.[26] [29]

Non all stations abided by this ruling; at to the lowest degree two stations, CIRK-FM in Edmonton[30] and CFRQ-FM in Halifax,[31] played the unedited version of "Money for Nothing" repeatedly for one hour out of protest. Galaxie, which was endemic by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC) at the time of the controversy, also continues to play the vocal.[32] [33] On 21 January 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission asked the CBSC for a review on the ban, in response to the public outcry confronting the CBSC's actions; the commission reportedly received over 250 complaints erroneously sent to them, instead of the CBSC. The regulator requested the CBSC to appoint a nationwide console to review the example, as the decision on the ban was reviewed past a regional panel for the Maritimes and Newfoundland.[34]

On 31 August, the CBSC reiterated that it found the slur to exist inappropriate; nevertheless, because of considerations in regard to its use in context, the CBSC has left it up to the stations to decide whether to play the original or edited versions of the song. Most of the CBSC panelists idea the slur was inappropriate, merely it was used merely in a satirical, non-hateful fashion.[35]

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

See too [edit]

  • "Weird Al" Yankovic'southward parody "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*"
  • List of Billboard Hot 100 number-1 singles of 1985
  • List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s
  • List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1985
  • Listing of number-one singles of 1985 (Canada)

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External links [edit]

  • Mix Online Archetype Tracks: Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing"

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