1985Released
8:26

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Interesting facts and trivia about Money for Nothing. By Songfacts®.

This song is about rock star excess and the easy life it brings compared with real work. Mark Knopfler wrote it after overhearing delivery men in a New York department store complain about their jobs while watching MTV. He wrote the song in the store sitting at a kitchen display they had set up. Many of the lyrics were things they actually said.

Sting sings on this and helped write it (he and Knopfler are the credited writers). That's him at the beginning singing "I want my MTV." Sting did not want a songwriting credit, but his record company did because they would have earned royalties from it. They claimed it sounded very similar to a song Sting wrote for The Police: "Don't Stand So Close To Me."

Dire Straits recorded this in Montserrat. Sting was on vacation there and came by to help out.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Money for Nothing.
DKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
134BPM

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Released By

The record label that has released Money for Nothing.
Warner Records
© 2000 Warner Records Inc.
℗ 1996 Mercury Records Ltd. (London), under license to Warner Records Inc.

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