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1985 single by Dire Straits

"Money for Nothing"
Money for Nothing single.JPG
Unmarried by Dire Straits
from the album Brothers in Arms
B-side "Love over Gilded" (Live)
Released 28 May 1985[1]
Studio AIR (Montserrat)
Genre Pop rock
Length
  • 8:22 (full version)
  • 7:04 (vinyl LP edit)
  • 4:38 (official single edit)
  • 4:06 (promo single edit)
Label Vertigo
Songwriter(s)
  • Marker Knopfler
  • Sting
Producer(s)
  • Neil Dorfsman
  • Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits singles chronology
"So Far Away"
(1985) 		"Money for Cipher"
(1985) 		"Brothers in Artillery"
(1985)
Music video
"Coin for Nothing" on YouTube
Sound
"Money for Nothing" on YouTube

"Coin for Nada" is a song past British stone band Dire Straits, the second track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms (1985). It was released as the album'due south second single on 28 May 1985 through Vertigo Records.[1] The vocal'due south lyrics are written from the signal of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they encounter. The song features a guest appearance by Sting singing background vocals, providing both the signature falsetto introduction and backing chorus of "I want my MTV."[two] The groundbreaking video was the first to exist aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on 1 August 1987.[3]

It was Dire Straits' most commercially successful single, peaking at number 1 for three weeks on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Top Rock Tracks chart and number 4 in the ring's native United kingdom. In July 1985, the month post-obit its release, Dire Straits and Sting performed the vocal at Live Assist. At the 28th Almanac Grammy Awards in 1986, "Money for Nada" won Best Rock Operation past a Duo or Grouping with Vocal and was nominated for Tape of the Yr and Song of the Year also. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video received 11 nominations, winning Video of the Year and All-time Group Video.

Composition [edit]

Music [edit]

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

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

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 vocal, played in permutation during the verses, and played in full after each chorus. The song'south extended overture was shortened for radio and music video.

Lyrics [edit]

Mark Knopfler described the writing of the vocal in a 1984 interview with critic Bill Flanagan:

The lead character in "Coin for Nothing" is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television/​custom kitchen/​refrigerator/​microwave apparatus shop. He'due south singing the song. I wrote the vocal when I was really in the store. I borrowed a bit of newspaper and started to write the song down in the store. I wanted to employ a lot of the linguistic communication that the real guy really used when I heard him, because it was more existent....[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 Metropolis and had visited an appliance shop. 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 cap, work boots, and a checkered shirt delivering boxes who was standing side by side to him watching. Equally they were standing there watching MTV, Knopfler remembers the human being coming upward with lines such as "what are those, Hawaiian noises?...that ain't workin'," etc. Knopfler and then requested a pen to write some of these lines downwardly and then eventually put those words to music.[7] The first-person narrating character in the lyrics refers to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a adult female "stickin' in the camera, man we could take some fun". He describes a vocalizer every bit "that lilliputian faggot with the earring and the brand-upward", and bemoans that these artists get "money for nothing and chicks for costless".[8]

The songwriting credits are shared between Marker Knopfler and Sting.[9] Sting has stated[ citation needed ] that his only compositional contribution was the "I desire my MTV" line, which followed the melody from his song "Don't Stand And so Close to Me". "Sting used to come to Montserrat to go windsurfing," recalled John Illsley, "and he came upwardly for supper at the studio. We played him 'Coin for Goose egg' and he turned round and said, 'You've washed it this time, yous bastards.' Mark said if he idea it was and so good, why didn't he go and add something to information technology. He did his bit there and so."[x]

Music video [edit]

The vocal's music video features early on reckoner animation.

The music video for the song features early computer animation illustrating the lyrics. The video was i of the first uses of computer-animated man characters and was considered groundbreaking at the time of its release.[11]

Two other music videos are also featured within "Money for Aught". The Hungarian pop ring Első Emelet[12] and their video "Állj, Vagy Lövök!" ("Finish or I'll Shoot!") appears as "Baby, Baby" past "First Flooring" 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 language.)[13] The other one is fictional, "Sally" by the "Ian Pearson Ring". The fictional album for the get-go video was listed as "Turn Left" and the second was "Hot Dogs". For the second video, the record company appears as "Rush Records", and information technology was filmed on Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest, Hungary.[thirteen] [fourteen]

Originally, Mark Knopfler was not at all enthusiastic about the concept of the music video. MTV, nonetheless, was insistent on information technology. Director Steve Barron, of Rushes Postproduction in London, was contacted past Warner Bros. to persuade Knopfler to relent. Describing the contrasting attitudes of Knopfler and MTV, he said:

The trouble was that Mark Knopfler was very anti-videos. All he wanted to practice was perform, and he thought that videos would destroy the purity of songwriters and performers. They said, "Tin can y'all convince him that this is the correct thing to practise, because we've played this song to MTV and they think it's fantastic just they won't play information technology if it's him standing there playing guitar. They demand a concept."[15]

Barron and so flew to Budapest to convince Knopfler of their concept. Meeting together later on a gig, Knopfler was reportedly notwithstanding unimpressed, only this fourth dimension his girlfriend was present and took a manus. According to Barron:

Luckily, his girlfriend said, "He's absolutely correct. There aren't enough interesting videos on MTV, and that sounds like a bright idea." Marker didn't say annihilation simply he didn't make the call to get me out of Budapest. Nosotros merely went alee and did information technology.

Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair created the animation, using a Bosch FGS-4000 CGI organisation[16] and a Quantel Paintbox organisation.[17] The animators went on to establish computer animation studio Mainframe Amusement (today Mainframe Studios), and referenced the "Money for Nix" video in an episode of their ReBoot series. The video also includes stage footage of Dire Straits performing, with partially rotoscoped animation in bright neon colours, as seen on the cover of the compilation album of the aforementioned name.

Notable performances [edit]

When Dire Straits performed "Coin for Nothing" at the 1985 Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium, the performance featured a guest appearance past Sting. Knopfler performed "Money for Nothing" using his Pensa-Suhr signature MK-i model guitar with a pair of Soldano SLO-100 tube/valve amplifier heads and Marshall speaker cabinets[ original inquiry? ] during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute and the Prince's Trust concerts in 1986 with Sting,[18] as well as 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? ] past Knopfler, backed by Eric Clapton and Phil Palmer.

Reception [edit]

Rolling Rock listed the vocal equally the 94th greatest guitar song of all time, noting how Mark Knopfler "traded his pristine, rootsy tone for a dry, over-candy sound achieved by running a Les Paul through a wah-wah pedal on a runway that became i of the [MTV] network's primeval hits."[19] The video was awarded "Video of the Year" (among many other nominations) at the third annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1986.[16] [20]

Accolades [edit]

Nominations for "Money for Nothing"
Yr Ceremony Nominated work Recipient(due south) Category Event
1986 Brit Awards "Coin for Naught" Dire Straits British Single of the Year Nominated
British Video of the Year Nominated
Grammy Awards[21] All-time Rock Performance by a Duo or Grouping with Song Won
Dire Straits
Neil Dorfsman and Mark Knopfler, producers 		Record of the Year Nominated
Dire Straits
Marking Knopfler and Sting, songwriters 		Song of the Year Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards[xx] Steve Barron, art direction Best Art Direction in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits Best Concept Video Nominated
Steve Barron, director Best Management in a Video Nominated
David Yardley, editor All-time Editing in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits All-time Experimental Video Nominated
Best Group Video Won
All-time Overall Performance in a Video Nominated
All-time Stage Performance in a Video Nominated
Ian Pearson, special furnishings Best Visual Furnishings 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 as being homophobic.[22] In a late 1985 interview in Rolling Stone mag, Knopfler expressed mixed feelings on the controversy:

I got an objection from the editor of a gay paper in London – he actually said it was beneath the belt. Autonomously from the fact that there are stupid gay people likewise as stupid other people, it suggests that maybe yous can't let it accept then many meanings – you have to be direct. In fact, I'thousand withal in two minds as to whether it's a expert idea to write songs that aren't in the first person, to have on other characters. The vocaliser in "Coin for Null" is a real ignoramus, hard chapeau mentality – somebody who sees everything in financial terms. I mean, this guy has a grudging respect for rock stars. He sees information technology in terms of, well, that'due south non working and notwithstanding the guy's rich: that's a good scam. He isn't sneering.[23]

Dire Straits often performed the song in live concerts and when on tour, where the second verse was included but ofttimes contradistinct slightly.[ commendation needed ] For the ring'due south 10 July 1985 concert (televised in the United Kingdom on The Tube on Channel four in January 1986[24]), Knopfler replaced the word faggot with queenie:[ original research? ]

"See the niggling queenie got the earring and the make-upwards" and "That footling queenie got his ain jet airplane, he'due south got a helicopter, he's a millionaire."

In Jan 2011, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled that the unedited version of the song was unacceptable for air play on individual Canadian radio stations, equally it breached the Canadian Clan of Broadcasters' code of ethics and their equitable portrayal code.[25] [26] [27] The CBSC concluded that "like other racially driven words in the English language language, 'faggot' is i that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so."[25] The CBSC'due south proceedings came in response to a radio listener'southward Ruling Request stemming from a playing of the song by CHOZ-FM in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, which in turn followed the radio listener's dissatisfaction with the radio station'south reply to their complaint about a gay slur in the lyrics.[25] [28]

Not all stations abided past this ruling; at least two stations, CIRK-FM in Edmonton[29] and CFRQ-FM in Halifax,[30] played the unedited version of "Money for Nothing" repeatedly for ane 60 minutes out of protest. Galaxie, which was owned past the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC) at the time of the controversy, likewise continues to play the song.[31] [32] 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 against the CBSC'due south actions; the committee reportedly received over 250 complaints erroneously sent to them, instead of the CBSC. The regulator requested the CBSC to appoint a nationwide panel to review the case, equally the determination on the ban was reviewed by a regional panel for the Maritimes and Newfoundland.[33]

On 31 August, the CBSC reiterated that information technology found the slur to be inappropriate; however, because of considerations in regard to its apply in context, the CBSC has left it upward to the stations to decide whether to play the original or edited versions of the vocal. Most of the CBSC panelists thought the slur was inappropriate, but it was used only in a satirical, non-hateful fashion.[34]

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Run across as well [edit]

  • "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*"
  • List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985
  • Listing 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 Naught"

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