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Fact #77223

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Short story:

Dire Straits reach No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA with Money For Nothing.

Full article:

Mark Knopfler : When I wrote Money for Nothing I was in a shop in America and all the TV sets in the shop window were tuned in to MTV, the American music video channel. I asked the girl behind the counter for a piece of paper and started to write a song based on what the stupid announcer was saying.

I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real. It just went better with the song. It was more muscular.
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