I always thought that Sting was on a holiday trip in Montserrat, the place Dire Straits recorded the song. And becouse of this coincidence and their friendship, he co-starred Money for Nothing.

That’s what I’d heard.

The lawyers got envolved.

Great accidental hit though.

Yep. They wanted someone who sounded like sting to sing that part. And an engineer said, you know sting is staying next door

I believe it was more the manager. Miles Copeland was and is legendary in the music industry for being a bully. Kind of like Allen Klein when he forced the Verve to hand over all the profits to Bittersweet Symphony.

For the Police, he was a fantastic manager, though.

Sounds like Sting got Money for nothing.

Copeland?

I'm gonna guess that's not a coincidence.

Hard to find the non censored version of Money For Nothing. It was crazy what they could get away with in the 80s.

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That’s the way you do it.

Checks for free

Stewart's brother and founder of irs records

Is it? I think the one on Youtube music is the original, assuming it's just the F-slur which is usually censored.

Man, that ain't working.

I hear it on Pandora all the time

Apple Music got it

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For DECADES, I thought it was “chicks for free.” :/