Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Before Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits was a great band that put out good records with average sales, and their records were preceded by the aforementioned Love Over Gold. It only contains five critically acclaimed songs, the shortest musical content of any of their albums, but they had already released the excellent live album Alchemy before Love Over Gold, so the Brothers release builds on that. The Arms Tailwind album, something the band didn't know or imagine, was a big boost they got with Tailwind.

Thanks to this song I had a lot of help and of course I didn't do it alone, and I made a record in terms of material and quality. Footprints Out: Alley of Life, Last Your Trick, Distant and Brothers in Arms.

As such, Money For Nothing not only became the best-selling single in the band's history, it also made Brothers in Arms one of the best-selling albums ever, making both the album and its tracks immortal. classics.

Released as a single on June 24, 1985, it was the second single from the Brothers in Arms album, following the lead single So Far Away.

"Money For Nothing" was written by chance when guitarist/songwriter Mark Knopfler passed by an electronics store with bassist John Illsley while the band was in the United States, specifically New York. While waiting for service, Knopfler listened to comments broadcast by store employees, comments taken from televised footage for sale: a then-new MTV video.

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When he looked up, he saw a wall of TVs tuned to MTV among everyone else at that moment. The person who tried to deliver the box was "What is it?" I started to talk. Or the person wearing a shirt and wearing a baseball hat was clean, released, open and liberated and did not stop to say that he worked as an artist refrigerator and refrigerator. Cuptorul Cu Micruunde și Nenorocitul de Chitară Sau tobe nu au învățat să cânte, au găsit milioane de muzică de ganoi, nu au găsit nimic și au avut toate fiicele și apariția lor. have put. Surprisingly, he was surprised and almost curious. As I said, as I said, when they said, they won, they won, and they won a simple or simple rock star.