Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits turns 71 today his song “Money for Nothing” was inspired by something he saw at an appliance store. Add a cool guitar and Sting and you had a number 1 hit…3 weeks at the top. Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits talks about how the idea for “Money for Nothing” fell into his lap.
“Sometimes, some songs have like a situation. You walk into a situation and you see it. ‘Money for Nothing,’ I was out with my wife and we were buying some kitchen stuff in New York. And it had all these microwave ovens
