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1985 single by Dire Straits

1985 single by Dire Straits

"Money for Nothing"
Money for Nothing single.JPG
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Brothers in Arms
B-side "Love over Gold" (Live)
Released 24 June 1985
Studio AIR (Montserrat)
Genre Pop stone
Length
  • 8:22 (full version)
  • 7:04 (vinyl LP edit)
  • 4:38 (official unmarried edit)
  • 4:06 (promo single edit)
Characterization Vertigo
Songwriter(s)
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Sting
Producer(s)
  • Neil Dorfsman
  • Marking Knopfler
Dire Straits singles chronology
"So Far Away"
(1985) 		"Coin for Nothing"
(1985) 		"Brothers in Arms"
(1985)
Music video
"Money for Nothing" on YouTube
Sound
"Money for Naught" on YouTube

"Money for Goose egg" is a song past British rock band Dire Straits, the second track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Artillery (1985). It was released as the album'south second single on 24 June 1985 through Vertigo Records.[one] The vocal's lyrics are written from the bespeak of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The vocal features a guest appearance by Sting singing background vocals, providing both the signature falsetto introduction and backing chorus of "I want my MTV."[2] The groundbreaking video was the starting time to exist aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on one Baronial 1987.[three]

It was Dire Straits' virtually commercially successful single, peaking at number 1 for three weeks on both the United states of america Billboard Hot 100 and Peak Rock Tracks chart and number 4 in the band'due south native U.k.. In July 1985, the calendar month following its release, Dire Straits and Sting performed the song at Live Aid. At the 28th Almanac Grammy Awards in 1986, "Coin for Cypher" won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Song and was nominated for Tape of the Year and Song of the Yr likewise. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video received xi nominations, winning Video of the Year and Best Grouping Video.

Composition [edit]

Music [edit]

"Money for Nothing" is a pop stone song.[4] Knopfler modeled his guitar sound on ZZ Top guitarist Baton Gibbons' trademark guitar tone, as ZZ Top's music videos were already a staple of early MTV. Gibbons told Timothy White of Musician in tardily 1985 that Knopfler had solicited Gibbons' assistance in replicating the tone, calculation, "He didn't do a one-half-bad job, either, considering that I never told him a goddamned affair!"[5]

Following the initial sessions in Montserrat, at which that particular guitar part was recorded, Neil Dorfsman attempted to recreate the sound during subsequent sessions at the Power Station in New York only was unsuccessful.[half dozen]

The recording contains a very recognisable hook, in the form of the guitar riff that begins the song proper. The guitar riff continues throughout the song, played in permutation during the verses, and played in full after each chorus. The song'southward 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 Neb Flanagan:

The lead character in "Money for Nothing" is a guy who works in the hardware department in a telly/​custom kitchen/​fridge/​microwave apparatus shop. He'due south singing the song. I wrote the song when I was actually in the store. I borrowed a chip of paper and started to write the song down in the store. I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real....[7]

In 2000, Knopfler appeared on Parkinson on BBC One and explained again where the lyrics originated. According to Knopfler, he was in New York Urban center and had visited an appliance shop. At the back of the shop was a wall of televisions which were all tuned to MTV. Knopfler then said at that place was a male person employee dressed in a baseball cap, work boots, and a checkered shirt delivering boxes who was continuing next to him watching. As they were standing there watching MTV, Knopfler remembers the man coming up with lines such equally "what are those, Hawaiian noises?...that ain't workin'," etc. Knopfler so requested a pen to write some of these lines downwardly and then somewhen put those words to music.[7] The start-person narrating character in the lyrics refers to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a adult female "stickin' in the photographic camera, homo we could have some fun". He describes a singer equally "that piddling faggot with the earring and the make-up", and bemoans that these artists get "money for null and chicks for free".[viii]

The songwriting credits are shared between Marking Knopfler and Sting.[9] Sting has stated[ citation needed ] that his only compositional contribution was the "I want my MTV" line, which followed the melody from his song "Don't Stand So Shut to Me". "Sting used to come to Montserrat to go windsurfing," recalled John Illsley, "and he came up for supper at the studio. We played him 'Coin for Nix' and he turned round and said, 'You've washed it this time, you bastards.' Mark said if he thought information technology was so good, why didn't he go and add something to it. He did his chip at that place and and so."[10]

Music video [edit]

The song's music video features early on computer blitheness.

The music video for the vocal premiered on MTV on 1 June 1985[xi] and features early reckoner animation illustrating the lyrics. The video was i of the outset uses of reckoner-animated human being characters and was considered groundbreaking at the fourth dimension of its release.[12]

Ii other music videos are likewise featured within "Money for Nothing". The Hungarian pop band Első Emelet[xiii] and their video "Állj, Vagy Lövök!" ("Stop or I'll Shoot!") appears as "Baby, Baby" past "Get-go Floor" during the 2nd poesy (The name "első emelet" translates to "first flooring", and the song is credited as being on "Magyar Records": "Magyar" means "Hungarian" in the Hungarian language.)[14] The other one is fictional, "Sally" past the "Ian Pearson Band". The fictional album for the first video was listed as "Plough Left" and the second was "Hot Dogs". For the second video, the record company appears as "Rush Records", and it was filmed on Fisherman'south Bastion, Budapest, Hungary.[14] [15]

Originally, Mark Knopfler was not at all enthusiastic most the concept of the music video. MTV, however, 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 Marking Knopfler was very anti-videos. All he wanted to do was perform, and he idea that videos would destroy the purity of songwriters and performers. They said, "Can you lot convince him that this is the right matter to do, because we've played this song to MTV and they think information technology'south fantastic but they won't play it if it'southward him standing in that location playing guitar. They need a concept."[16]

Barron then flew to Budapest to convince Knopfler of their concept. Coming together together later a gig, Knopfler was reportedly still unimpressed, but this time his girlfriend was present and took a hand. According to Barron:

Luckily, his girlfriend said, "He's absolutely right. There aren't plenty interesting videos on MTV, and that sounds like a brilliant thought." Mark didn't say anything only he didn't make the telephone call to get me out of Budapest. We merely went ahead and did it.

Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair created the animation, using a Bosch FGS-4000 CGI organization[17] and a Quantel Paintbox arrangement.[18] The animators went on to found calculator animation studio Mainframe Amusement (today Mainframe Studios), and referenced the "Money for Zippo" video in an episode of their ReBoot series. The video also includes stage footage of Dire Straits performing, with partially rotoscoped animation in vivid neon colours, as seen on the cover of the compilation album of the same proper noun.

Notable performances [edit]

When Dire Straits performed "Money for Nothing" at the 1985 Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium, the performance featured a guest appearance by Sting. Knopfler performed "Money for Nothing" using his Pensa-Suhr signature MK-1 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's Trust concerts in 1986 with Sting,[19] equally well as the Nordoff-Robbins charity show at Knebworth in 1990 and the On Every Street globe 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 every bit the 94th greatest guitar song of all time, noting how Mark Knopfler "traded his pristine, rootsy tone for a dry out, over-processed audio achieved by running a Les Paul through a wah-wah pedal on a track that became one of the [MTV] network'due south earliest hits."[20] The video was awarded "Video of the Year" (amid many other nominations) at the third annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1986.[17] [21]

Accolades [edit]

Nominations for "Money for Nothing"
Twelvemonth Anniversary Nominated work Recipient(s) Category Result
1986 Brit Awards "Money for Nothing" Dire Straits British Unmarried of the Year Nominated
British Video of the Year Nominated
Grammy Awards[22] Best Rock Performance past a Duo or Group with Song Won
Dire Straits
Neil Dorfsman and Mark Knopfler, producers 		Record of the Yr Nominated
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler and Sting, songwriters 		Song of the Twelvemonth Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards[21] Steve Barron, art direction All-time Fine art Direction in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits Best Concept Video Nominated
Steve Barron, manager Best Direction in a Video Nominated
David Yardley, editor Best Editing in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits Best Experimental Video Nominated
Best Group Video Won
Best Overall Performance in a Video Nominated
Best Stage Performance in a Video Nominated
Ian Pearson, special effects Best Visual Effects in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits Video of the Year Won
Viewer's Option Nominated

Controversial lyrical content [edit]

The lyrics for the vocal take been criticised as being homophobic.[23] In a late 1985 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Knopfler expressed mixed feelings on the controversy:

I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London – he actually said it was beneath the chugalug. Apart from the fact that at that place are stupid gay people likewise as stupid other people, it suggests that peradventure you can't let information technology have so many meanings – you have to exist straight. In fact, I'1000 still in two minds as to whether it'south a proficient idea to write songs that aren't in the first person, to take on other characters. The vocalizer in "Money for Nothing" is a existent ignoramus, hard hat mentality – somebody who sees everything in fiscal terms. I hateful, this guy has a grudging respect for rock stars. He sees it in terms of, well, that's not working and yet the guy's rich: that'south a good scam. He isn't sneering.[24]

Dire Straits often performed the vocal in live concerts and when on tour, where the second poesy was included but often altered slightly.[ citation needed ] For the band's ten July 1985 concert (televised in the United Kingdom on The Tube on Aqueduct iv in Jan 1986[25]), Knopfler replaced the word faggot with queenie:[ original research? ]

"Come across the footling queenie got the earring and the make-up" and "That little queenie got his ain jet plane, he's got a helicopter, he'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 Clan of Broadcasters' lawmaking of ethics and their equitable portrayal lawmaking.[26] [27] [28] The CBSC concluded that "like other racially driven words in the English language, 'faggot' is one that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in before days, is no longer then."[26] The CBSC'south proceedings came in response to a radio listener's Ruling Request stemming from a playing of the vocal by CHOZ-FM in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, which in plough followed the radio listener'southward dissatisfaction with the radio station'due south reply to their complaint nearly a gay slur in the lyrics.[26] [29]

Not all stations abided by this ruling; at least two stations, CIRK-FM in Edmonton[xxx] and CFRQ-FM in Halifax,[31] played the unedited version of "Money for Cipher" repeatedly for one hour out of protest. Galaxie, which was endemic by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC) at the fourth dimension of the controversy, likewise continues to play the song.[32] [33] On 21 January 2011, the Canadian Radio-tv set and Telecommunications Commission asked the CBSC for a review on the ban, in response to the public outcry against 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 case, as the determination on the ban was reviewed past a regional console for the Maritimes and Newfoundland.[34]

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

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Run into also [edit]

  • "Weird Al" Yankovic'southward parody "Money for Naught/Beverly Hillbillies*"
  • Listing of Billboard Hot 100 number-ane singles of 1985
  • List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s
  • List of Cash Box Top 100 number-1 singles of 1985
  • List of number-one singles of 1985 (Canada)

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External links [edit]

  • Mix Online Classic Tracks: Dire Straits' "Money for Naught"

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