Dire Straits Sold Tons of CDs Because They Were Pimping the New Format
“ Money For Nothing ” by Dire Straits is a birdcall remember for many thing : a dirty sweetener to plain things off ; background signal vocal music by Sting ; a cool , early - VR - flair video ; and the inevitableWeird Al takeoff . It was a successful single on Brothers in Arms , a successful record album that was one of the first major hits on those shiny , new - fangled thick discs ....