The WEIRD STORY of DIRE STRAITS MONEY FOR NOTHING

The story of DIRE STRAITS song MONEY FOR NOTHING
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In this video, we explore the iconic Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing," from its origins to its lasting impact on rock music. Formed in 1977, Dire Straits rose to fame with hits like "Sultans of Swing" and "Romeo and Juliet." By 1985, they were ready to release "Money for Nothing," a track born from a chance encounter in an appliance store, where Mark Knopfler overheard a delivery guy's candid remarks about rock stars.
The song became a massive hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning critical acclaim for its innovative music video, which featured groundbreaking computer animation. The video won the first-ever MTV Video Music Award for Best Video in 1986 and helped solidify Dire Straits' status in the music industry.
However, "Money for Nothing" also sparked controversy due to its use of a derogatory term, leading to debates about its meaning and impact. Despite the backlash, the song remains a classic, recognized for its unforgettable guitar riff and thought-provoking lyrics.
Join us as we delve into the history, legacy, and controversies surrounding "Money for Nothing," and discover why it continues to resonate with audiences today. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more music history and analysis! This description summarizes the key points of the script while enticing viewers to watch the video for more in-depth information.

[@rnrtruestories]

How do you guys feel about the music video and was A-ha’s better?

[@LostHorizons0]

Great song screw libs

[@AmazinglyBadGamer]

this could be a stretch, but the video concept, two guys commenting on mtv vids while being on mtv, sounds like it may have inspired beavis and butthead, just a little bit.

[@LostHorizons0]

@@AmazinglyBadGamer beavis and butthead is from the 90s this came out in the 80s lol you are just oozing zoomer on this one.

[@rnrtruestories]

@@AmazinglyBadGamergood point

[@URKillingme100]

After hearing this some 50,000 times, I never connect "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and I Want My MTV". Or I just forgot.

[@trinaq]

You hear the opening guitar riff, and you instantly get excited. Also, Mark Knopfler's one condition to let Weird Al parody the song was to have him play guitar on the track. 🎸

[@MrHazelRah]

UHF 4eva

[@Martin-di9pp]

That rif got me into metal. 🤘

[@ebinrock]

​@@MrHazelRah"Be-ver-ly! Be-ver-ly! Be-ver-ly Hill-bil-lies!"

[@garth217]

​@Martin-di9pp it's not metal

[@crowe668]

Love that riff...and the video. I grew up in the 80's....I miss the good ole days!!

[@JeffScottKing]

I can't believe Dire Straits invented Minecraft

[@elizabethgrassi9444]

Seriously

[@dansihvonen8218]

😄🤘👍

[@stevepatrickjarvis]

Wow I didn't know they invented minecraft.

[@bat2275]

The unedited version is the best to listen to

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

Always. Editing is BS.

[@briankady1456]

Agreed

[@nolarobert]

The "Brothers In Arms" album is one of the few records that I consider to be perfect from start to finish. I bought my copy when "Money For Nothing" was ruling the charts and dominating MTV. I still have it in my album collection and play it on occasion. It brings back great memories from the summer of 85.

[@sootchh4055]

I mostly listen only to metal but Money For Nothing is still one of the best rock songs ever.

[@narrator69]

Metal head since the 70's and I agree, Dire Straits is one of a few bands outside the metal genre that I liked.

[@user-ih1mo8vv7o]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@LostHorizons0]

Mark Knopfler is an amazing songwriter and guitarist. Period

[@JimmyKnight-uc3pt]

They didnt remove it , its still on the Brothers in Arms album, or you can find it on here . People are too sensitive !

[@deadinthewater218]

The world is full of cry babies.

[@JimmyKnight-uc3pt]

@@deadinthewater218 True words, my friend!

[@scottdowdy3563]

They did remove it. Just because you can still get the original doesn’t change the fact that the lines were removed

[@stevethompson210]

It is not about politeness, it is about power. The same people have no problem using the worst language against their political enemies.

[@dunebasher1971]

@@stevethompson210 What are you whining about? Do you get joy from the homophobic slur? Is that what makes the song worth listening to for you? It's still exactly as it was on the album, so you can get your homphobic fix any time you like. And bear in mind that Knopfler himself has been changing the lyrics when singing it live for nearly 40 years.

[@janmarchand7294]

I miss the old MTv. I was there for the very first broadcast and my friends and I kept the tv on all day, sometimes just on silent! We didn't want to miss a minute, just videos and music all day long. Heaven.

[@deadinthewater218]

I miss those days

[@JonasWhite]

@@deadinthewater218I remember the world premiere of money 4 nothin

[@TPaine1776]

I saw MTV's beginning. Then spent most of the 80s in Asia and missed almost all of it. Now I wouldn't watch it if it were the last channel out there.

[@michaelme1548]

I’ve never liked MTV. It was huge and my opinion wasn’t a popular one. I still think in general visuals have taken more from music than they have added.

[@janmarchand7294]

@@JonasWhite And the chicks are free...😃

[@BubbaZen10]

The same people worried about words and censoring music are the main reason why music today is so vapid and horrible

[@joeshoe6184]

That's a gross oversimplification man. 99% of the great songs in the history of music contain zero slurs. Whether you like slurs or not, that's just a fact.

[@BubbaZen10]

@@joeshoe6184 yeah, i was completely wrong and you're right. music is great today. Sorry

[@nmarks]

Music today is so vapid and horrible because of management accountants and shareholder returns.

[@BubbaZen10]

@@nmarksGood music and rock, it'll come back around. It always does. I've watched rock supposed to be dead at least 4 or 5 times now. "Rock is dead they said LONG LIVE ROCK! "

[@redbaron977]

Exactly

[@mattdixon6396]

Dire Straits were an almost yearly touring band over here in Australia. Many years after Brothers in Arms they did a tour and played back to back arena shows in Melbourne. It was apparently cheaper for the band to rent a big house as a band and do the direct helicopter to the gig every night. One of my old chefs was in charge of a pub right near where they were staying and were in there quite a bit and were left alone to enjoy a quiet drink and dinner. Apparently they appreciated it immensely. On the last night they were there the pub had its usual open microphone night and DIRE STRAITS PLAYED IT FOR FUN! The locals knew who it was and was enjoying every minute of it. The owner had no idea about anything later asked them to be the regular Sunday night band😂 Apparently one of them told the owner they couldn’t do it ‘as they had previous work commitments’ 😂😂😂

[@RanterInShades]

I always believed the song was about Motley Crue. I’ve heard others say it’s about Boy George, George Michael, Prince, even David Bowie. But the line “Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair” just sounds like something you’d say about a hair band.

[@KassiusFineArt]

It was about John Waite of The Babies.

[@pinehawk9600]

Really?​@@KassiusFineArt

[@KassiusFineArt]

@pinehawk9600 A long time ago, that's what someone in the band said in an interview. Think it was MK but not sure. They were in an appliance store....not a gym as said. Maybe it's in one of his interviews on KZbin.

[@christopherpardell4418]

It wasn’t ’about’ ANY other band. It was about the average listener watching MTV videos and envying how rock stars made money without having to work for it. An inside joke to other musicians because being in a highly successful band is more work than they could ever know.

[@julieschoolcraft1503]

I always thought it was about Prince.

[@vk3fbab]

Contrast the use of the word between money for nothing and one in a million. There you get the context that so many people are lacking. Mark used the language of the protagonist because it was so right. It's a social commentary on what the working class thought of rock stars. Just because someone gets offended doesn't mean their offence is always valid.

[@bradkrekelberg8624]

My second favorite song ever. I love the part about Sting. "be great if Sting was here... " "he is!"

[@LeonLandgren-qt9pg]

Yeah😂

[@rozzie101]

I remember a few years back, on Canadian radio stations. They tried to ban 'Money for Nothing.' A local radio station CFNR, didn't take part in the ban, actually played the song more. 😅

[@gottlicherhammer]

Cool story, bro. Wish he would have mentioned that in this video. 😒

[@richiehoyt8487]

Thank God for CNFR, the resilience of common sense, and a willingness to say 'stick it' (no, not trying to be 'clever') when necessary! I myself took against this song when it came out, but in my defence, I wasn't much more than a kid and I didn't get it.

[@tonymacd1624]

It came out in 1985 they were a few decades late…..

[@PS-zw4yc]

Bet they still played WAP

[@rozzie101]

@PS-zw4yc what is WAP?

[@CanItAlready]

I thought the meaning behind the song was clear from the first time I heard it. How on earth did anyone misunderstand it???

[@notcherbane3218]

Yeah I was kind of wondering about that too it was pretty obvious what it was about !!

[@nogames8982]

@@notcherbane3218 if people couldn’t figure it out just by the lyrics you think they’d get a clue with the video.

[@phillipbreedlove3209]

I think the video is just click bait. Everyone understands the song.

[@imaginitivity7853]

Also when this song came out, i was working in electrical retail. I had to move refrigerators and colour TVs, which would play the song in store, so at least we could sing along while we did it!

[@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed]

It was a Les Paul Standard. Dorfsman's quoted as saying it's a Jr, but it was a Standard. No reflection on you, you researched, found a source, and trusted it. Fair play.

[@StefanMedici]

TBF Mark did pretty much own every sort of guitar known to man. If I remember his touring set was 50 or so. 😂

[@clinkman007]

It was indeed a 1983 Les Paul 'Standard'...a reissue of the Historic 1959 Les Paul, not a Les Paul Junior. This guitar was sold at auction in Jan 2024 for £592,000 although it had a guide price of £10,000 - £15,000 and Knopfler confirmed it was the guitar used on the recording of Money For Nothing. Ordinarily a 1983 Les Paul '59 reissue would be worth £6,000 - £8,000.

[@coolnegative]

What's wrong about singing about a bundle of sticks?

[@scuffedryangosling4264]

The bundles of sticks get sad or something.

[@coolnegative]

@@scuffedryangosling4264 thanx for responding. I realize my joke was probably not acceptable by today's "society," but i couldn't help myself. I try honestly to be respectful of everyone, even if i don't necessarily agree, however it is also my opinion that everyone (especially Americans) are just WAY too uptight where they don't need to be. Blessings.

[@bryan5238]

In 1985 I was a closeted gay 16 year old in rural Washington state. The 2nd line in "Money for Nothing" withe the "F-word" did nothing but inspire me and made me feel included, giving me hope that I could do anything, and be successful. That I could have my own jet airplane and be a millionaire. I'd like to thank Mark Knopfler,

[@MosherBear]

I'm baffled; I mean, Mark used his journalist experience to write the lyrics taken from what he overheard - how can that be censored?

[@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat]

Because people don't care about context, especially nowadays.

[@rcyalater...2305]

Weak, thin skinned, constantly needing to be offended snowflakes

[@stevecarter8810]

​@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goatyou nailed it. In recent years we can't even distinguish writer from character from actor. Social media has given power to the ignorant.

[@gwts1171]

One of the few bands that never recorded a bad song. Also, this has to be the only time ever where someone talking about "the 'f' word" isn't talking about "f**k".

[@r.edward5701]

​@@elimcfly350😂

[@iowa_don]

This is a song that needs to be played at VOLUME. Love that guitar!

[@DjWellDressedMan]

1980's MTV = I remember when 'Money for Nothing' was #1 and the sole reason it got huge airplay was due to it mentioning MTV. Then MTV figured out that the song was openly mocking MTV and they dropped it.

[@kehmsecksdiin4547]

Gotta say.....umm ..no..no that's not what's happening...I can certainly see why I have come to that position ur taking . But it's just not so ..

[@cchavezjr7]

I don't recall them ever dropping it just because they realized what the true meaning was.

[@crabbyhayes1076]

Mark Knopfler also mumbles, which could be the reason no one heard anything objectionable.

[@blacksunshine7485]

Song reminds me of corrupt fat cat suits in the 80s doing coke and making deals. I love these videos that have dated computer animation like Def Leppard Let's Get Rocked and I think there's a ZZTop video..

[@deadinthewater218]

Let’s Get Rocked is a good song too

[@OttoByOgraffey]

The little cigarette with the earring and the makeup, yeah buddy, that's his own hair.

[@michaellazor5667]

Censorship has always been out of hand

[@coolnegative]

You should do a video on Dann Huff. How an easy listening Christian guitarist went on to become one of the most respected and sought after session players and producers. The man basically invented the 80s guitar sound playing on everything from Kenny Loggin's "Danger Zone" to Madonna's "Like A Prayer" and Peter Cetera's "Glory of Love." Dann Huff WAS the soundtrack of every 80s song, whether they know it or not.

[@florianbohren5886]

Dann's amazing - but i would say the inventors of the 80ies sound are lukather and landau

[@Nightdare]

@@florianbohren5886 Don't forget Phil Collins for that Gated Reverb drumsound

[@satevo462]

As someone born in the late 70's, believe me, you could not turn on MTV with seeing this video.

[@KirkFleming-er1up]

I don't usually make comments on KZbin but this album was a huge part of my childhood I was born in 83 and my dad had it on vinyl still love it to this day. Love your channel one of the best on KZbin much love and respect from Brisbane Australia.

[@rnrtruestories]

Thank you so much! That means a lot

[@bri1042]

I was 14 when this song came out. Whatever the band meant by using the F word was utterly lost on every little Michigan 14 year old I knew. It got quoted in the halls at school, kids turned up that part of the song and hit rewind to hear it again. All the little bigots I went to school with used it as an anthem. The artist's intention has meaning, of course, but how it's received also has meaning. Some artists recognized this and some don't, and it was the 80's. The same kids misinterpreted the The Beasties Boys in later years (which was much more amusing), along with many other bands and songs.

[@IRNHYD]

You completely glossed over the point here, by citing the fact that some 14 year olds made the lyrics an impromptu anthem. The ignorance of some middle school students does not validate your argument. Social policy should not be dictated by the notions of tween kids that going to be brutal and mean to each other regardless of the song playing on the radio.

[@AndrewGreenaway]

It’s just a word

So if Virgin Records got a share of the royalties for the melody of the chorus of Police’s “Don’t stand so close to me,” shouldn’t the two employees of the appliance store also get a share for providing much of the lyrics?

[@busterhikney6936]

"SCREW THEM." -The Music Industry

[@dezawol9786]

STAYED UP LATE FOR HANDBANGERS BALL 😂😂

[@JosephSastreShowsYou]

"I want my MTV" = "Don't stand so close to me" Brilliant I love that!!!!

[@almightyironhead25]

GREAT SONG!!! But they RUINED it by taking out the best part. Obviously people that criticized it DIDN'T grow up in the 80's...

[@Ottophil]

I grew up in the 80’s I have no problem with removing the slur. How is the part hating gay people “the best part” to me its marks riff

[@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed]

He started changing that line almost immediately. If you see a live version from back then he often says "queenie", for example.

[@somenamelessdude8095]

​@@OttophilIf he was actually talking about Poison, its fitting, glam rockers looked like crossdressers back then

[@almightyironhead25]

@@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed right on....

[@almightyironhead25]

@@Ottophil damn right!

[@RonBaker456]

As it is now, nobody but the critics cared about what the critics said.

[@Jay-n262]

Had no idea Dire strait's was from the UK. They have an American sound.

[@musicauthority674]

Many people don't know that Mark Knophler is left handed and plays the guitar right handed. he's on a sorta long list of guitarists that I have. because I am left handed and play the guitar right handed also. Duane Allman and Gary Moore are also on that list. something else that many people don't know. is Mark Knophler plays a Fender Stratocaster most all the time. but his favorite guitar is his Les Paul. it's just that the Strat. has a better tone for many if their songs.

[@bobeaseshop9389]

This was fantastic. I deeply enjoyed your work and dedication on this era. Thank You.

[@BotsWeekendCovers]

Great Effing Song!!!!!!!!!!!! This song got me back into guitar until I realized I don't play fingerstyle like Mark LOL. Well I still got back into guitar over it. Just a bad ass song and it was when I finally got to legally get into a club and drink. It was ALWAYS playing the all the babes were dancing to it!!! Great memories!!!!

[@JacobDean88]

I remember in the late 70s, my dad cranking up Sultan's Of Swing.on Vinyl. Man, those were good times for music

[@DiZZoLabs]

❤ dire straits - come to you is my favorite song

[@AxlRose-ug5db]

Great band great song it came out when i was 13 it was a huge hit 💯

[@jrossi9250]

Loaded trucks to help pay my college tuition until I played bass in a band. I loved this song and still smile when I hear it.

[@SomeRandomDude2020]

Sometimes I’ll be sitting here watching one of your videos and I’m suddenly struck with: Damn this is good. MTV was on my television nonstop in the 80s. Great job!

[@rnrtruestories]

Thanks!

[@deadinthewater218]

I miss the 80s

[@stewartw.9151]

The editing of the word which means " sticks of wood, tied together and used as fuel for a fire" was one of the stupidest things one can imagine!

[@kingnurk888]

Didn't knew it's been THAT long since some people were unable to understand rony and sarcasm and take everything just too literally, like it happens nowadays especially when it comes to comedy. Anyway, MTV was great not only in getting irony and sarcasm, but also in appreciating it.

[@BasementPepperoni]

See that little draft dodging hippie with the earing and the make-up, yea buddy that's his own hair. That draft dodging hippie got his own jet airplane!

[@crumblingheights4367]

This song came out when I was about 12 years old. It was played on radio and MTV all the time. I don’t remember anybody not being in on the joke. It doesn’t surprise me that some people were offended, but this is the first time I’m hearing about it.

[@xrayjosh]

This song has a special place in my heart, it was the first tune I ever air guitared to! I was 8 or 9, and the riff still gets shivers going up my spine today!

[@solidsneakie]

Communique is an amazing, chilled album.

[@JamieStuff]

"Brothers In Arms" was groundbreaking in many ways. It was (one of) the first CDs to be "DDD" (digital recording, digitally mixed, digitally distributed). "Money For Nothing" was one of the first music videos to feature such computer imaging. Word in the tech community was that the CGI was done on Amiga computers.

[@enricmaria97]

Sting in Don't Stand So Close to Me (1980): Don't stand Don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Sting in Money For Nothing (1985): I want my I want my I want my MTV

[@derick-smith]

When I listen to the song, I just sing CLAMPET really loud when they get to that word. Weird Al forever baby!

[@wallheadkdir]

Once upon time in the west...great song!!

[@mbberry135]

What is there to get? Blu collar guys at working being jealous and repulsed by rich people on MTV. Go to vest buy and listen to the employees when the watch MTV (You'll need to coax the into turning it on.) The song You'll write 40 years later will be exactly the same as Money For Nothing. I knew that back in the 1990's!

[@PaboritongAwitinniBoyKarne17]

I like the music video of MONEY FOR NOTHING...

[@carlmanvers5009]

An amazing time for MTV. I miss the days it was about the music. The song itself is a classic, original language and all and I have no problem with it.

[@kallekas8551]

Oh man! I remember seeing an interview on this in the 80s…biggen dealen!😂

[@stevenr8606]

OH, PLEASE. 🙄 Whatever happened to "'Words' can not hurt me ... ❓️" Some people are so touchy. Especially today.

[@FranciscoGarcia-hi3zx]

Great timing. Been listening to this song the for the past week.

[@Acejustforalaugh]

Once it's said, you can't take it back 😢

[@nemesis851_]

Hummmm… wonder where my Brothers in Arms LP is? Packed up somewhere in the basement 🎸

[@derrickstableford8152]

I used to install custom kitchens. It was our song. That was how we were at the time…thoughts and times have changed.

[@raddastronaut]

Love Dire Straits. Knoffler is so awesome. He pulled a Weird Al, and got Al on that same song. It was great he demanded to play on the song with Al. I love the UHF soundtrack. Also. That thumbnail is epic. 😂

[@Sam_Green____4114]

I got it completely from the very start !! Mark Knopfler was in New York ( or some such America village ) and he went to an electrical store to buy something and inside the TVs ware all tuned to MTV !! There was a couple guys there unloading stuff from a truck parked outside ,stuff like TVs in Boxes and Refrigerators , Hoovers etc etc .When they came in the store they saw some weird looking rock band like Kiss or Iggy Pop or Def Leppeard playing on the TVs and one said " Ha look at them freaks ! That ain't working ! We got to work hard every day moving all this heavy stuff to get our money " right in front of Knopfler .This gave Knopfler the idea for a song !

[@sunsty1e]

I had no idea they were from London

[@Jez-Hunt]

I think they formed there, but Knopfler grew up in Blyth, North East England, born in Glasgow

[@RonGardener4142]

As Jez Hunt says, Mark Knopfler was born in Glasgow and grew up on Tyneside. He refers to the area in "Tunnel of Love" "Walk away walk away, from Cullercoats to Whitley Bay" which are both coastal resorts near Newcastle.

[@Jez-Hunt]

@@RonGardener4142 I live in Wallsend these days, and the Geordies are canny proud of wor Knopfler

[@RonGardener4142]

​@@Jez-Hunt We are very proud indeed, not only of Mark Knopfler but also of Sting (a Wallsend lad), Brian Johnson (from Dunston, Gateshead), and Ridley "Gladiator" Scott (South Shields) to name but a few. We've got a metric shit-ton of talent!

[@Jez-Hunt]

@@RonGardener4142 absolutely!

[@richarddexter7641]

And now, you can't hear this tune in it's entirety anywhere these days. Damn radio cowards. Fortunately, they can't keep me from playing it on my home system.

[@clocksurfer]

I get the song. I understood the tongue-in-cheek immediately because, at the time, I was a young musician grappling with how hard it is to make it look easy.

[@juliegood7999]

Right, back in the day, the F word ( can’t believe I have to say F word) was not used as a slur but as in the same general context as the B word or the C word and I never heard that it was aimed at any artist. Sheesh 🙄

[@karakillgrave8105]

I loved this song and video as a kid.

[@mgmx2099]

I remember being so mesmerized by the video back then.

[@trendmassacre8423]

I always thought of Don't Stand So Close To Me when hearing the "I want my MTV" bit, but didn't know that Mark had The Police in mind when the beginning was written, and also didn't know that was Sting singing the beginning of Money For Nothing!

[@firebir11]

Mark Knoffler remarked his guitar sound came from a wah pedal making a sound left at particular poisition which acounted for the unique sound it made.

[@edwardevans7219]

IN NJ, A CONVENIENCE STORE SOLD SANDWICHES AND YOU GOT A BAG OF TREATS FOR FREE, THEIR A T M ALSO DID NOT CHARGE YOU. SO, IT WAS MONEY FOR NOTHING AND CHIPS FOR FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@epicpotato8507]

I dont remember hearing the edited version.. ever.

[@spacewolf9585]

I remember when we all were waiting in anticipation for the video to drop on MTV, as they had done a big promotion effort on the channel for it, and everyone being blown away by the look of everything. And of course the Weird Al parody video from that era was equally amazing.😂

[@funkyzero]

Brothers in arms was the best recorded and mastered album I had ever heard when it came out. It set a standard that was generally unmatched for a very long time. By todays standards, it's even better. If you really want to brutalize your sound system, this is the album to use. It's almost like there is no real peak until things start melting. It is so dang clean it just makes you want more and more.

[@mht525]

The Drum into is a great piece to play and Knoflers claw picking is what it takes. Dire Straits were enormous in Australia.. Real musicians ✌️🤘⚖️🎸🥁🇦🇺🇺🇦

[@elosoguapo8137]

The people who make these criticisms have to be the most ignorant ones of them all. They don’t even attempt to contextualize. They want to be offended and they want to be victims.

[@peterrussell6029]

2:40 - that‘s Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 (not in the UK)

[@marcpeterson1092]

Obviously that "f word" isn't very PC, but I had no idea it had been censored. I heard it all the time on the song.

[@soberek]

13:33 stupid error. It wasn't a Les Paul Junior. It was a 1983 made Les Paul 1959 Reissue.

[@MedalionDS9]

Tis a fine song and greater video, but I prefer Sultans of Swing

[@deadinthewater218]

So Far Away is my favorite Straits song

[@krystiangorski6201]

Brothers In Arms. The guitar is haunting.

[@cyrilfrance-jackson1892]

I have always thought that 1 line of that song came from my grandmother, from when John Illsley and I were school friends.

[@krystiangorski6201]

Lmao. My dad introduced me to alot of music and was always giving me tapes to listen to in my Walkman before bed. I was about 8 years old when he gave me the Brothers In Arms album. Anyway i was in the 3rd or fourth grade when my teacher thought it would be a great idea to let each student bring in a song they liked, play it and then discuss it. 😂. I naturally brought that tape and she proceeded to play Money for nothing. When the verse with the little fgt came on she jumped out of her seat in a panic to shut it off. She then proceeded to try to explain the lyrics, but changed it to " the little people". Now i was to young to understand but i kind of felt like i did something wrong just didnt know what. Nothing ever happened because this was Nyc in 92 and there wasn't any of this woke crap around. But years later thinking about it, i dont think i ever laughed so hard in my life. ( at the situation) anyway very bizarre. What could she say? That an 8 year old is homophobic? I didnt understand the lyrics fully at the time. I wonder how that would've played out these days 😂😂😂

[@kgk4L96]

That is wild. Last night, I was thinking of some obscure football player, and today I saw news about him. Yesterday, I was looking up the movie Local Hero and here it is being mentioned.

[@edkirkwood6951]

Love songs with true lyrics!

[@harrydbastard]

As a kid the music video for this blew my mind

[@diba4645]

First album together with Graceland you had to have as CD

[@richardsinger01]

I'm not a Dire Straits fan, but I recognise Brothers in Arms is excellently recorded. My vinyl copy has a really great sound compared to most of my other LPs. As far as I'm concerned it puts to bed the idea that analog recording and mastering is the be-all and end-all.

[@hammer1bad]

So I remember back in the day, I was told when that song came out it was about prince!! The lyrics that little Fagot. Now the stories changing

[@RealRoknRollr3108]

This was probably my favourite song as a kid in the 80s. But I never understood what the song was about and thought the line was 'money for nothing and cheques for free'. Made no sense but money and cheques seemed to logically go together 😅

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

I mean Yeah the video and song are so iconic, in that era you had Bon Jovi and Def Lepard putting out catchy music. all the way up to the early 2000s you had the wave of Rock and alternative Rock really dominating. I still say Executives are what killed the music industry, anti consumer, lazy, and over predatory with the artists.

[@stevebloke5455]

always thought he said I want my own tv... yep my hearings great...... lol

[@PfukYT]

10:10 WOW! I had NO IDEA that a-Ha was Norwegian. Always thought they were British.

[@rnrtruestories]

Yes from Norway

[@delanoarts3703]

I still lovd that riff that band I remember did not like metal but that riff is so metal I love playing just feels good ya I agree it has to be one of the all great guitar riffs ever wrote up there with smoke under water and Ted nugent

[@usefulidiom]

Mark Knopfler is a legend.

[@whoisharo4689]

PLEASE PLEASE do a video about the contortion guy in TOOLs Aenima album photos! Youre the perfect channel to cover it!

[@tomstrawmyer4980]

That song influenced a lot of people to play guitar! Still does!😁🤘