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It was released as the albums second single on 24 June 1985 through Vertigo Records.

Alan Clark's keyboards help to fill out the sound and give Knopfler's spare melodies a certain majesty, but Dire Straits remains an overgrown bar band with a Bob Dylan fixation, and that's exactly how the crowd likes it. 'Money for Nothing' is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, the second track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms (1985). That Dire Straits' introspective music loses much of its detail in a live setting matters less than that it gains presence and a sense of anticipation. When they do have a song of even medium speed, such as "Sultans of Swing" or "Solid Rock," they are in ecstasy. in reverse order to the original vinyl album: side A comprised tracks 6 through 9. But when the albums single ' Sultans of Swing ' became an unexpected chart hit on both sides of the Atlantic ( 8 UK, 4 US) some months later, the debut album climbed into the US and UK Top Ten. Released in June 1995, their third and final live album was a contractual release to Vertigo Records (now a division of Mercury Records). Many of these albums are available on Juno Records. When Dire Straits released their first, self-titled album in 1978, it made little impact on the charts due to the success of punk rock at the time. Dire Straits' final album, Live at the BBC, is a collection of live recordings from 1978 to 1981, which mostly feature the original line-up of the band. DateTitle, ArtistPeak PosWoCWks No 114.03. Along with other musicians like Eric Clapton, Dire Straits led the rock music scene of the late 1980s that aimed to appeal to the baby boomer generation. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker. Dire Straits Studio album by Dire Straits Released 7 October 1978. Ranker asserts that Down to the Waterline was at the top of their list of the Best Dire Straits Albums of All Time. There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler's muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response.