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Speaker 1: Let Me tell you a Story a.

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Speaker 2: Time Cley releases the story behind.

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Speaker 1: The song, the song behind the story behind the song.

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Speaker 1: Today is Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, the second

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Speaker 1: track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms. It

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Speaker 1: was released as the album's second single in June nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty five. Now the lyrics are written from the point

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Speaker 1: of view of two working classmen watching music videos and

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Speaker 1: commenting on what they see. Yeah, I think Mark Knopfler

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Speaker 1: can probably tell the story better as he did when

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Speaker 1: he appeared on Parkinson in two thousand.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was in New York and I was in

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Speaker 2: a kitchen appliance store and it had a window, a

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Speaker 2: kitchen window displaying the window, and then there'd be a

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Speaker 2: row of microwaves or cookers and things like that. And

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Speaker 2: then at the back of the store it was a

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Speaker 2: big wall of televisions or all tuned MTV. There was

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Speaker 2: some bonehead who worked for the store, a great, big,

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Speaker 2: macho guy with a you know, with a check shirt

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Speaker 2: on and a cap and a pair of workboots, and

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Speaker 2: he'd been delivering stuff at the back and he so

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Speaker 2: he was watching MTV and he was saying all these

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Speaker 2: great lines about you know that ain't working. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's the way you do it, and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: What's that? What's that Hawaiian noises? He was saying, And

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Speaker 2: so I just thought it was so classic that I

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Speaker 2: went and asked for a pen and paper and started

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Speaker 2: writing the lines down.

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Speaker 3: You know, started taking notes free him. How good is that?

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Speaker 1: It was Distrait's most commercially successful single, peaking at number

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Speaker 1: one for three weeks on both the US and UK charts,

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Speaker 1: picked at number four here. The songwriting credits a share

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Speaker 1: between Mark Knopfler and Sting. According to Knopfler, he used

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Speaker 1: the network slogan I Want my MTV after seeing an

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Speaker 1: MTV ad featuring the Police and setting it to the

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Speaker 1: tune of Don't Stand So Close to Me, which is

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Speaker 1: written by Sting, hence the co writing credit. But keyboard

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Speaker 1: player Alan Clark claims the I Want My MTV intro

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Speaker 1: was his idea, not Noflins. He says the song originally

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Speaker 1: began with the guitar riff, and then he developed the

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Speaker 1: intro on keyboards and saying I Want my MTV on

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Speaker 1: top during a break and rehearsals for the album.

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Speaker 3: That's the kind of thing that will break a band.

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Speaker 1: Up absolutely either way, How awesome was it when Sting

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Speaker 1: joined dire Straits at Live Aid to perform the track,

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Speaker 1: which would have been pretty much brand new at that time.

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Speaker 1: Either way, he's just glad he got the co running.

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Speaker 1: That's all he had to.

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Speaker 3: Do, and it was a perfect voice for it. I

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Speaker 3: remember seeing that movie Under the Volcano, which is about

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Speaker 3: their studios in Monserrat, and as they're recording the song

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Speaker 3: and they go, jeesus, I wish Sting was here to

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Speaker 3: do this bit. And someone goes, he's here. He's going

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Speaker 3: to record later at this studio with the police, but

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Speaker 3: he's on holidays. So they called him up getting in

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Speaker 3: and his wife Trudy said that's going to be a

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Speaker 3: huge hit. The Sting went, uh, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 3: it's it's okay. How wrong he was.

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Speaker 1: It was a huge hitch. It is a huge hitch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And what a way to wrap up the story

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Speaker 3: behind the song.