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Created: 2025-07-17 14:04:50 UTC

“Money For Nothing” - Dire Straits

The song is written from the perspective of a working-class man (inspired by a real-life conversation Mark Knopfler overheard in a New York appliance store) who envies the seemingly easy lives of rock stars on MTV.


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