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"Telegraph Road" became a staple of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler solo tours. A slightly shorter live version of the song is included in the 1984 live album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, [3] and a remixed edit of that performance is included in their 1988 greatest hits album Money for Nothing. [4]
The song's music video features early computer animation. The music video for the song features early 3D computer animation illustrating the lyrics. The video was one of the first uses of computer-animated human characters and was groundbreaking at the time of its release. [14] Two other music videos are also featured within "Money for Nothing".
I Want My MTV may refer to: The original slogan of the television channel, MTV; A line in Dire Straits song, "Money for Nothing", which reiterates the MTV slogan; I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, a 2011 book
Where it once showed only music videos, MTV now airs almost nothing but unscripted shows about internet videos. The reason, as the podcast finds, is simple: because that's what people will watch.
Alan: The legitimacy came a year into it with the “I Want My MTV” campaign, with Jagger and Townshend and Bowie. That was a genius move on the part of Les Garland and Bob Pittman. …
The bold new cable station captured the zeitgeist, putting the new medium of music videos at the forefront of pop culture. MTV also helped invent a brand-new on-air gig: the video jockey, a.k.a ...
First music videos aired on MTV Number Song Artist Appearance [a] Notes 1 "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles: 1/2 First music video ever aired on MTV 2 "You Better Run" Pat Benatar: 1/2 First female artist and first lead guitarist (Neil Giraldo) 3 "She Won't Dance With Me" Rod Stewart: 1/2
It is one of only two Dire Straits songs on a studio album not to be solely credited to Knopfler (the other being "The Carousel Waltz", which opens Making Movies), with guest vocalist Sting given a co-writing credit due to the melody of the repeated "I want my MTV" (sung by Sting) at the start echoing the melody of the Police's "Don't Stand So ...