Originally written by Mark Knopfler for the album Brothers in Arms, the song ended up with a last-minute songwriting credit—to Police legend Sting.
Knopfler explained how Sting’s cameo came about in a video posted to Instagram.
“We were recording ‘Money for Nothing,’ and I said to somebody, ‘I wish Sting was here,’ and somebody said, ‘Well, he is here, he is on holiday’,” Knopfler continued. "I told him ‘Great, get him up here because I can hear him singing on this thing.’.. Sting came up to the studio, and we already had the track in place, and he just sang it.”
Sting noted that his wife, Trudie Styler, predicted the song would be a huge hit, and it certainly was, shooting up the charts to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1985.
Knopfler previously told The Guardian that the Dire Straits hit was a product of “a whole bunch of fortunate incidents that collided with each other.”
“While we were recording the Brothers In Arms album at AIR Studios on Montserrat, I remember thinking: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I could ask Sting to sing that line?’” Knopfler recalled. “We were on this tiny speck in the middle of the ocean, but suddenly someone said: ‘Sting’s here on holiday! He’s on the beach!’ So he came up to the studio, and when he walked in, the first thing he said was: 'What’s wrong?’”
There was no fight, but Dire Straits alum Alan Clark has disputed Knopfler’s recollection of how Sting’s “I Want My MTV” line came to be a part of “Money for Nothing.” The keyboardist once claimed that opening the song with MTV’s catchphrase was his idea.
"That’s the short version," he added. "For the record: the idea was mine.”
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