by Dire Straits
Money for Nothing was written by Mark Knopfler with a credited contribution from Sting and released as a single on 28 June 1985 for Dire Straits’ album Brothers in Arms. It is a rock song satirising the attitudes of a working‑class man watching music videos, and it became closely associated with MTV thanks to its then‑groundbreaking computer‑animated promo. Money for Nothing topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and has remained one of Dire Straits’ signature songs, frequently cited as an emblematic rock track of the mid‑1980s.
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