Money for Nothing

artist
Dire Straits

album
Brothers in Arms

decade
eighties

genre
pub rock

significance

 * a chart topper

trivia

 * noted for its ahead-of-its-time music video
 * features Police frontman Sting on backing vocals singing "I want my MTV", then the slogan for Music Television, in a way similar to the group's hit Don't Stand So Close to Me.