Dire Straits & Sting - Money for Nothing [Live Aid -85]

[montereypopfestiva67]

The little faggot with the earing and the makeup!

[Humppathetic]

Well, obviously the 10 dislikes came from "faggots". ;)

[fIRsTRATmAN]

Only Guitar God Mark Knopfler can sing this song

[SuperPissflaps]

FUCK THE LOT OF YA

[UncappingBadger]

Who can dislike this song? Seriously!

[CdPrni]

1:15 ... lucky bustard .... gets to come on stage with THE dire straits ... just to bang his freaking tambourine ...

[MsMsgracie]

thats for the aholes who dare to slag off martin gore

[pakitovillanueva]

in fact,money for nothing

[ooJUKEBOXHEROoo]

I love how Jack Sonni is dancing! He's soo into it emotionally! If I was up there or in the crowd, I'd be jamming. Good ol' rock and roll...Gets my foot stompin' and my heart pumpin'! ROCK ON

[swlnyc1]

@ooJUKEBOXHEROoo yeah considering he was not a member of the band and really nobody cared about him. God why don't backup musicians know their place

[ooJUKEBOXHEROoo]

@swlnyc1 I don't care if he's a "backup musician". The point is he's letting loose, and that's what it's all about. Having a good-ass-time and emotionally rocking out! Fuck standing still. As long as it doesn't screw up your playing or singing, rock your soul out!

[pageynumbert2]

@swlnyc1 im pretty positive that he recorded on the album.. hence, he is a part of the band. just not the original lineup. Is David Gilmour not part of Pink Floyd because he was not part of the original lineup?

[GymChess]

Sting was absolutely worthless in my opinion. They should've left him out.

[Mirrigold]

@GymChess why would they, he's on the original song?

[GymChess]

@Mirrigold I know he was on the original song but he sucked big time in this clip anyway. Also, they didn't use him every time the song was performed on stage.

[TheKingDannyboy]

@GymChess he wrote the song with knopfler, he has the right to be there.

[Nordb0nk]

@TheKingDannyboy all he wrote was the MTV part, and Mark put him down as a co-writer for fun

[OlaOOp]

@GymChess He wrote the song with Mark so shut up pls.

[147briel]

Muito bacana!!!!

[TheMuseman2]

8 people wanna fuckin TV

[misterjakemczilla]

Did anyone notice when Sting grabbed the guy in the red jacket and pulled him closer to the mic? Lol

[nebkadune]

@misterjakemczilla ..because he cant remove their sunglass...

[misterjakemczilla]

@nebkadune Don't really understand what that had to do with my comment, but ok..

[frankdiddly]

The guy with the red jacket and shade?! Holy $#!t! It's PLASTIC MAN!!! Plas was at Live Aid!!!

[avidbookreader]

@frankdiddly LOL, the guy in red trenchcoat is Jack Sonni, the outrageously energetic rhythm guitarist of Dire Straits during the band's BiA era. I can't help but think that he should have teamed up with Tommy Mandel (who was the keyboard player of Dire Straits for a short period of time before Guy Fletcher joined the band), they would have made the...eh,  perfect dancing duo.:D

[grantessky]

sounds like sting got his nuts stuck in a vice

[GymChess]

@grantessky Roflmao

[phish1085]

@grantessky get up in front of that many people, lets see who sounds better

[grantessky]

sting yikes

[EWWYOURFAC3]

the guy in the red trench coat is such a clown

[fawkthescene666]

@EWWYOURFAC3 Haha red trench coat guy is on your team.

[EWWYOURFAC3]

@fawkthescene666 ?

[Alexispelling]

I WAAANT MYYYYYYY

[lirorose]

Coooool!!!!!!



[Middlesexful]

knopfler as a badass-rock-biker and sting as the pope next to him and both singing about mtv = LIVE AID!

[LnLGame]

This performance was incredibly good, but go look at queens live aid videos and compair the crowds.

[sapo836]

este video es de los mejores

[teamcuba2000]

YES, IT'S DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME, BUT SEEING AS DIRE STRAITS AND STING HAD SOME SERIOUS LEGAL COUNCIL..??? JESUS. KNOBHEADS...

[JayM1646]

Who else air guitared the opening riff??

I know im not the only one

[thealmightycommenter]

@JayM1646 i played it on my guitar

[OlaOOp]

@JayM1646 Fuck yes, everybody i think .

[FoxTheSwift]

@JayM1646 i just badly sang "I want myyyyyyyyyyyy own tv!"

[MultiSavinho]

is beautiful band i love money for nothing i from brasil thx for oportunit

[KingKelly1979]

I wish mark wouldn't censer himself saying faggot but I still love dire straits

[TownieGirl1974]

Happy Birthday MTV

[ejthomp99]

That little queenie got the earing and the makeup.

[mickihotchick]

@ejthomp99 Is that what they're saying? Queenie? I was wondering... They should've left it alone.. Queenie sounds stupid as hell.

[ejthomp99]

I could watch Knopfler play all day and not get bored!

[DimK46]

@ejthomp99 that's exactly tha same for me!!! i think i love him too much!!! :))))

[ejthomp99]

Sting.....dude! Tuck in your shirt, it looks like hell!

[metfan410]

Listen closely....Sting is singing I want my MTV exactly how he sings Don't stand so close to me......cool.

[ELBAGGADOUCHIO]

@metfan410 Must be a youngster ... Don't Stand So Close to Me was out years before Money For Nothing. Sting actually got co-writing credit on this track .

[captainmedvar]

Do you people realize that Sting was on the original recording???

[Paulbeatle95]

Sting Is one of the better singers on the World.... with the Dire Straits...pff music from gods

[alexed18]

I am surprised about all the negative comments about Sting! I don't think he shoved his way on stage there, I suspect the band invited him... they liked him and the way he sang on their song, that's good enough for me too!

[airdriver]

@alexed18

Sting was invited onstage by Mark Knopfler because he sang the high harmonies on the studio version of this song.

[YodaVanGrindey95]

Steinberger with a red trenchcoat!

[Allanlegacy43]

MTV died December 31 1989!

[avidbookreader]

Watch this version many times, but once again I find myself skip the first 2 minutes. (one minute and 50 seconds, to be precise)

Mark's smile at 2:49 & 4:46. So sweet.:)

Did Sting Say "sorry" at 4:02? Or did I hear wrong? ;-)

[impassable]

Im serious when I say this, I had never seen or heard Sting till today, I don't know anything about him, but I do know he doesn't belong up there with Dire Straits

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[imalittlecow]

I too want my MTV. the one that doesn't suck balls. 

[lesrustiestknight]

love dire straits<3

also love sting but sing he here not so good.xxx

[srvfan454]

Kept hoping sting would fall off the stage, but it didnt happen. No offense to sting fans intended, Just don't want ANYONE else onstage with Dire Straits

[MrMorganfarts]

@srvfan454 esspecially if they fuck up one of there songs

[caspianrex]

This was possibly the best performance at Live Aid. I mean, I love me some Queen, but Knopfler's guitar work is beautiful.

[G3Ld0f]

QUE DE BONS SOUVENiRS !!!

MERCi BOB GELDOF !!!!

[FireFingers93]

Wonderful song!! but Sting, please, go and sing with The Police, you will do it better than singing Money For Nothing in the stage!!!!

[Argonicus]

@FireFingers93 Hi sing in studio version of the song ,hi staty on his place :)

[MrMorganfarts]

@Argonicus what country are you from? just asking

[Argonicus]

@MrMorganfarts I'm from Ukraine, and what?

[MrMorganfarts]

thanks for ruining the chorus of the best song ever, especially at a f*ckin charity concert, sting. we gotta move these refrigerators, custom kitchen deliveries? REALLY!?

[singhthesongs]

on this stage knopfler outshines sting by about a thousand watts.:=))

[Hobinator17]

i'd pay more for that jacket Mark is wearing than i would for his Les Paul

[avidbookreader]

@Hobinator17 Hahah, same here.:)

I really think Mark looks marvellous in that red jacket.*_*

However I am a bit more greedier than you, because I covet his headband, too.:D

[MaetzlerMichael]

@Hobinator17

i'd like that indiand skirt from sting much more

[Easyandy100]

@Hobinator17 How much for his headband?

[MrMorganfarts]

sting rocks the origional song, but he sucks live

[MrMorganfarts]

@MrMorganfarts ya but he does a good mtv part

[guitardo2]

7 emos disliked the song

[Tpickering95]

the guitar intro is fucking amazing

[ThisSheetB4RealYo]

funny how Mark has to censor himself and forgoes the word "faggot" in this song...it's about chicks and cash.

[cleide97]

I mean really... who's doesn't like this????? really!

[delandreese]

Used to think stuff like this was mediocre.. but then I climbed out from my own arse and realise now it's amazing!!! Brilliant everything about it.

[greppia92]

@delandreese climbing out of own arse = best phrase ever

[Guiitaristt]

love the guy on the tamborine

[mrengftw]

Jack sonni looks so evil in red with glasses xD

[teeshathahir]

7 people don't know what real music is...

[JosephMSmithMusic]

How can you sum up the Dire Straights in one word? Wow.

[naturewoodfb]

awsome riff!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SuperPissflaps]

but chicks do cost money

[MrRichek]

simply excellent

[fawkthescene666]

marks shirt is fricken AWESOME

[Kazinsal]

Possibly the best performance of this song by Mark and the boys. Not so much for Sting, though.

[paolorossifan2006]

@Kazinsal i agree. sting sounds horrible in this clip

[attackofthezach]

sting blows the lyric so hard @3:48

[rosesfornever]

my brother thought the lyric was "money for nothing and chips for free.." x3

[avidbookreader]

@rosesfornever LOL, how funny, my daughter thought so, too.:)

[25Alec]

i want to have sex with the guitar riff

[Rand0mR0b]

I'm as happy as the guy playing the tamborine.

[Lytton333]

Mr Sumner can't quite hit the note there can he..

[nukesistah]

@Lytton333 hehe it apears so

[phaelcg]

this song is amazing, simply the best

[murdockta]

best intro ever!!!

[mousstard]

This is a true story. Some Lesbian from Atlantic Canada complained about gay slurs in this song and subsequently got it banned from radio play in Canada. I hope that fuckin dyke has a miserable life!!

[chopperg1966]

@mousstard Yeah I heard that mate. My best mate lives in Calgary and when I went out to be best man at his wedding quite a few Canadians liked Dire Straits- then I hear this song is banned in Canada because of the "Faggot" lyrics???? Its a joke! Knopfler has not got a bad bone in his body and wrote this song on what he heard from workers in an electrical shop in New York. Yet I bet this Lesbian doesnt mind wankers like GaGa and Jessie J(?????) pretending they love playing the pink piano!

[mousstard]

@chopperg1966 Cheers to that. I'm from Alberta as well, 87 percent of Albertans are opposed to the banning of the song. 13 of Albertans are full bollocks!

[swlnyc1]

@mousstard WOW that explains a lot, back in the day I was a disc jockey for a radio station in Vermont and we would get tons of requests for this song from places in Quebec where we had plenty of listeners. Guess our signal was not jammed for just this song after all.

[NLglennNL]

the drums are a kick off for a absolutly stunning guitar riff

[BunniePetrarch052]

DL the audio from this vid at tubepull doht cohm.

[lavalleej1]

Wow, its been along time since I heard this song, great job by all

[knotheads666]

...old school rocks!...AΦE

[nickwhitsy]

Trent from punchie at the back @ 3:37

[nickwhitsy]

Tony Twist from round the twist in the blue at 3:21

[lewismulholland]

rite sting mate you just get aff the stage, and let mark n the boys do the talkin

[BabyBullOwenUK]

I like Sting, but he can't sing!!!

[zajobunny]

Barking Sting... Perfect song...

[breakfreenu]

dear youtube,

this video has a dislike button

please fix it.

[Lovesthebeatles13]

gotta love Live Aid for the cause and for the music :D

[MultiCgp]

Darn it he ad-libbed the key word...great concert however, & for a great cause.

[garebela]

Canadian CRTC is like the Nazi SS. They want to control our minds, otherwise they may send the RCMP over to tazer us into submission.

[crewlla]

Q104 was told by the canadian brodcast standards counil that they could not play this song cause the said it was unfit because it used the word faggot in it three times.

[JimmyFranceable]

Canada sucks! We always knew it, now it's a official.

[JimmyFranceable]

Canada sucks! We always new it, now it's official.

[robfergusonjr]

dam faggotssssssssss!

[madmike101a]

26 years later and it took person to serew it for us all who like this song

[madmike101a]

26 years later and it took person to serew it for us all

[AzureStocking]

@madmike101a One little faggot.

[rozzie101]

I can't believe this song is now banned here in Canada... so F'N lame...

[legendabbott]

@rozzie101 cant even play the song in public. glad still got the song on CD. but now to fit the word Fagot willl be placed with the word Fudger. damn those bastards

[rozzie101]

@legendabbott - yea...I've watched a few live versons of the song on YouTube, on one he changed the word fagot to queeny...

[91cobra50]

Sucks they edited the word Faggot out. Down with Egal

[91cobra50]

Sucks they edited the word Faggot out. Down with Egal

[guitartown4]

dis song juz got alot kool-er!!!!!!! IT JUZ GOT BAN FROM RADIO IN CANADA!!!

fer da word faggot!!!!

[legendabbott]

@guitartown4 they said even if we wanted to play this song in a car got to have it blurred out. damn assholes bad enough to have it edited on the radio or even at a club. 

[GoodGuitarSolos]

I can't understand why people are actually knocking Sting. He has great voice ,and sang the original too!

[44eelz]

someone forgot to hit the reverb switch on Sting's mic

[deepsingh8]

sting was the intro for the original awesome sounding song

fools

[Crazybenjiwoo]

@deepsingh8 he done it on the original track also right ?

[deepsingh8]

@Crazybenjiwoo yup yup

he also co-wrote it

and if u can tell, they use "i want my mtv" to the tune of one of the police's songs

dont stand so close to me, i think its called

[CHEVYDUDE95]

@deepsingh8 if you listen its the same rhtym for the chorus of dont stand so close to me. talking about sting here

[deepsingh8]

@CHEVYDUDE95 i know right

that's how he did it for mark knopfler

"chevydude" seems like a chevy chase fan to me

:D congrats

[CHEVYDUDE95]

@deepsingh8 haha thanks =). and although i like Chevy Chase, its based off the automobile :)

[deepsingh8]

@CHEVYDUDE95 >.<

[CHEVYDUDE95]

@deepsingh8 but its okay! cus i now drive a mustang haha. yay contradictions 

[SlosII]

@deepsingh8 true, and he deserves a lot of respect for that but yet, he kind of blows the lyrics on this one :)

[Mikettown]

@deepsingh8  Sting also didn't get things right at the 5:23 mark when he should have started the conclusion.

[deepsingh8]

@Mikettown the whole point of a live gig is to do things different, otherwise its just plain

[Zakk667]

@deepsingh8 ... He sings at all the refrains and some parts of the song nearly alone as well. Don't forget to tell that to all that fancy fools! :)

[kaizer316]

Best guitar intro everrrrrr

[tuong93]

#%@#$% shit, 5 people has a bad taste in music

[norwayfinland]

@tuong93 yeah some just heave no taste btw this is the same gibson that he he,s playing on his last solo album you can heare it on the song rememberance day he was playing it in the studio it was last in a interview

[tom77092]

This is what most rock star idols *actually* sound like, before the producers and studios come in and tart them up. This makes Queen's performance all the more astonishing, as they played completely live too.

[TimeSpex]

I'm 17 and have this on DVD the whole performances. It sounds soooo much better

[fawkthescene666]

I dont know why everyone thinks sting sucked in this video. I think sting and mark sounded super good together, maybe a few vocal errors here and there but it was 85 and they didnt auto tune their voices so cut them some fukin slack.

[DarkGallahad]

Do you guys know that Sting got a huge royalty from the video just for saying I want my MTV a bunch of times? Huge deal in the 80's when this song came out .

[robarin]

was that christopher walken introducing them??

[oceanborn1962]

@robarin No - Tommy Vance

[InsaanWiseMan]

Man...Sting sounds exhausted. On the original song...his falsetto is much better! Even Mark's voice sounds weird. But on the whole...a great song!!

[Ricci6667]

5:30, a slim will ferrel?

[Bluemoon4655]

why is sting singing?