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

"Money for Cypher" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, the second rails on their fifth studio anthology, Brothers in Artillery (1985). It was released as the album's 2d single on 28 May 1985 through Vertigo Records. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of 2 working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they come across. The song features a guest appearance by Sting singing groundwork vocals, providing both the signature falsetto introduction and backing chorus of "I want my MTV."[2] The groundbreaking video was the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on 1 August 1987.[three]

It was Dire Straits' most commercially successful single, peaking at number 1 for three weeks on both the United states of america Billboard Hot 100 and Top Stone Tracks chart and number 4 in the band's native UK. In July 1985, the month following its release, Dire Straits and Sting performed the vocal at Live Aid. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards in 1986, "Coin for Nothing" won Best Rock Functioning by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year equally well. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video received 11 nominations, winning Video of the Year and Best Group Video.

Limerick [edit]

Music [edit]

"Money for Nothing" is a pop stone song.[iv] Knopfler modeled his guitar sound on ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons' trademark guitar tone, every bit ZZ Superlative'south 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 practice a half-bad job, either, considering that I never told him a goddamned thing!"[v]

Post-obit 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 but was unsuccessful.[6]

The recording contains a very recognisable hook, in the class 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 vocal's 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 Bill Flanagan:

The pb graphic symbol in "Money for Nada" is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television/​custom kitchen/​fridge/​microwave appliance store. 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 than 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 City and had visited an appliance store. At the back of the store was a wall of televisions which were all tuned to MTV. Knopfler so said at that place was a male person employee dressed in a baseball game cap, piece of work boots, and a checky shirt delivering boxes who was continuing next to him watching. As they were standing at that place watching MTV, Knopfler remembers the homo coming up with lines such as "what are those, Hawaiian noises?...that ain't workin'," etc. Knopfler so requested a pen to write some of these lines down and and so somewhen put those words to music.[seven] The start-person narrating character in the lyrics refers to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a woman "stickin' in the camera, man nosotros could accept some fun". He describes a vocalizer as "that fiddling faggot with the earring and the make-upward", and bemoans that these artists become "money for naught and chicks for free".[8]

The songwriting credits are shared between Mark Knopfler and Sting.[9] Sting has stated[ citation needed ] that his only compositional contribution was the "I want my MTV" line, which followed the tune 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 up for supper at the studio. We played him 'Money for Nothing' and he turned round and said, 'You've washed it this time, you bastards.' Marking said if he idea it was and so skillful, why didn't he go and add something to information technology. He did his fleck there and then."[ten]

Music video [edit]

The song'southward music video features early computer animation.

The music video for the song premiered on MTV on one June 1985[11] and features early figurer animation illustrating the lyrics. The video was ane of the starting time uses of figurer-animated human characters and was considered groundbreaking at the time of its release.[12]

Ii other music videos are also featured within "Money for Nothing". The Hungarian pop band Első Emelet[13] and their video "Állj, Vagy Lövök!" ("End or I'll Shoot!") appears as "Babe, Baby" by "Get-go Floor" during the second poesy (The proper name "első emelet" translates to "first flooring", and the song is credited as beingness on "Magyar Records": "Magyar" ways "Hungarian" in the Hungarian language.)[14] The other one is fictional, "Sally" past the "Ian Pearson Ring". The fictional album for the offset video was listed as "Turn Left" and the second was "Hot Dogs". For the 2nd video, the tape company appears as "Rush Records", and it was filmed on Fisherman'south Bastion, Budapest, Hungary.[14] [fifteen]

Originally, Mark Knopfler was non at all enthusiastic well-nigh the concept of the music video. MTV, however, was insistent on it. 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 problem was that Marker Knopfler was very anti-videos. All he wanted to do was perform, and he thought that videos would destroy the purity of songwriters and performers. They said, "Can you convince him that this is the right thing to practice, considering we've played this song to MTV and they call up it's fantastic but they won't play information technology if it'due south him standing there playing guitar. They need a concept."[16]

Barron so flew to Budapest to convince Knopfler of their concept. Meeting together afterwards a gig, Knopfler was reportedly still unimpressed, only this fourth dimension his girlfriend was present and took a hand. Co-ordinate to Barron:

Luckily, his girlfriend said, "He'due south absolutely right. In that location aren't enough interesting videos on MTV, and that sounds like a bright idea." Marker didn't say anything but he didn't brand the telephone call to get me out of Budapest. We just 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 organisation.[eighteen] The animators went on to found calculator animation studio Mainframe Entertainment (today Mainframe Studios), and referenced the "Money for Goose egg" video in an episode of their ReBoot serial. The video likewise includes stage footage of Dire Straits performing, with partially rotoscoped animation in brilliant neon colours, as seen on the cover of the compilation album of the aforementioned name.

Notable performances [edit]

When Dire Straits performed "Coin for Zilch" at the 1985 Alive Help Concert at Wembley Stadium, the operation featured a guest advent by Sting. Knopfler performed "Money for Cipher" 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 Altogether Tribute and the Prince'southward Trust concerts in 1986 with Sting,[19] every bit well every bit the Nordoff-Robbins clemency 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 as the 94th greatest guitar song of all time, noting how Marking Knopfler "traded his pristine, rootsy tone for a dry, over-processed sound achieved by running a Les Paul through a wah-wah pedal on a track that became one of the [MTV] network's earliest hits."[20] The video was awarded "Video of the Year" (among many other nominations) at the third almanac MTV Video Music Awards in 1986.[17] [21]

Accolades [edit]

Nominations for "Money for Nothing"
Year Anniversary Nominated work Recipient(southward) Category Effect
1986 Brit Awards "Coin for Nothing" Dire Straits British Single of the Year Nominated
British Video of the Yr Nominated
Grammy Awards[22] Best Rock Functioning by a Duo or Group with Vocal Won
Dire Straits
Neil Dorfsman and Mark Knopfler, producers 		Record of the Year Nominated
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler and Sting, songwriters 		Vocal of the Year Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards[21] Steve Barron, fine art direction Best Art Management in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits All-time Concept Video Nominated
Steve Barron, managing director All-time Direction in a Video Nominated
David Yardley, editor Best Editing in a Video Nominated
Dire Straits Best Experimental Video Nominated
Best Grouping Video Won
All-time Overall Functioning in a Video Nominated
Best Stage Performance in a Video Nominated
Ian Pearson, special effects 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 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 paper in London – he actually said it was beneath the belt. Apart from the fact that there are stupid gay people besides as stupid other people, information technology suggests that maybe yous tin't permit it have so many meanings – you take to be straight. In fact, I'm still in two minds as to whether it's a skillful idea to write songs that aren't in the first person, to take on other characters. The singer in "Money for Zilch" is a real ignoramus, hard lid mentality – somebody who sees everything in financial terms. I hateful, this guy has a grudging respect for rock stars. He sees information technology in terms of, well, that'south not working and yet the guy'south rich: that'southward a good scam. He isn't sneering.[24]

Dire Straits oft performed the vocal in alive concerts and when on tour, where the second verse was included but often altered slightly.[ commendation needed ] For the band'due south x July 1985 concert (televised in the United Kingdom on The Tube on Channel 4 in January 1986[25]), Knopfler replaced the word faggot with queenie:[ original research? ]

"See the picayune queenie got the earring and the make-up" and "That little queenie got his own jet airplane, he'southward got a helicopter, he's 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 Association of Broadcasters' code of ethics and their equitable portrayal lawmaking.[26] [27] [28] The CBSC concluded that "similar other racially driven words in the English language, 'faggot' is i that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so."[26] The CBSC'south proceedings came in response to a radio listener's Ruling Request stemming from a playing of the song by CHOZ-FM in St. John'due south, Newfoundland and Labrador, which in plough followed the radio listener's dissatisfaction with the radio station's reply to their complaint about a gay slur in the lyrics.[26] [29]

Not all stations abided by this ruling; at to the lowest degree ii stations, CIRK-FM in Edmonton[xxx] and CFRQ-FM in Halifax,[31] played the unedited version of "Money for Zip" repeatedly for one hour out of protest. Galaxie, which was owned past the Canadian Dissemination Corporation (the CBC) at the time of the controversy, likewise continues to play the song.[32] [33] On 21 Jan 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Committee asked the CBSC for a review on the ban, in response to the public outcry against the CBSC'southward 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, as the decision on the ban was reviewed past a regional panel for the Maritimes and Newfoundland.[34]

On 31 August, the CBSC reiterated that it found the slur to be inappropriate; however, because of considerations in regard to its use in context, the CBSC has left it upwards to the stations to make up one's mind 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 simply in a satirical, non-hateful manner.[35]

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Come across also [edit]

  • "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*"
  • List of Billboard Hot 100 number-1 singles of 1985
  • List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s
  • Listing of Cash Box Top 100 number-one 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 Nothing"

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