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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".
Love Over Gold was the first Dire Straits album produced solely by Mark Knopfler, and its main chart hit, "Private Investigations", gave Dire Straits their first top 5 hit single in the United Kingdom, where it reached the number 2 position, despite its almost seven-minute length, and became another of the band's most popular live songs.
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
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
The advent of YouTube put virtually every music video in history at your fingertips, making MTV—so radically inventive just a generation earlier—as obsolete as FM radio.
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 ...
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. …
"You'll never look at music the same way again" (The first slogan; appeared on the original blue MTV shirt.) "I want my MTV!" (Originally intended as a promotional tool encouraging subscribers to ask their cable providers to add the MTV network; later became the iconic slogan for MTV for more than a decade, even being featured in the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing)