Dire Straits - Money For Nothing music video (Good quality, all countries)

What this video is

Released in June 1985 at the height of MTV's cultural dominance, 'Money for Nothing' is one of the most self-aware artifacts of the music video era — a song written from the perspective of working-class men bewildered by MTV's celebrity economy, delivered via one of the most technically ambitious videos the channel had ever aired. The video's pioneering CGI was created using a Bosch FGS-4000 system and Quantel…

Why it matters

A watershed moment for rock music videos and CGI in popular media. 'Money for Nothing' demonstrated that computer animation could be viable and commercially compelling in mainstream entertainment, directly prefiguring the CG revolution of the late 1980s and 1990s. It remains one of the defining…

The director

British music video and film director who made his breakthrough in 1983 with Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean.' He became one of the most prolific and influential directors of early MTV, working alongside contemporaries David Mallet and Russell Mulcahy. He is…