MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS - 1985

MONEY FOR NOTHING – Dire Straits

#1 – September 21st, 1985

 

NEWS

• Ronald Regan is sworn in for his second term.

• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the communist party in the Soviet Union.  

• The Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked.

• Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles. 

• Missing children are put on milk cartons for the first time.

• The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.

• U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Rocky”, “Back to the Future” (the highest grossing film of 1985).

• T.V.: “MacGyver” & “Growing Pains”.

• The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers.

• Singers and musicians from across the U.S. gathered to record “We are the World” calling themselves “USA for Africa”

• Coca Cola introduces “New Coke” only to bring back “Old” Coke 3 months later…

• Nintendo is introduced.

• David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen and The Police call it quits.

 

DEAD

• Rock Hudson

• Orson Wells

 

#1@1

• From the album Brothers in Arms

• The video was the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network started on August 1st 1987.

• The song won the Grammy for the Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with a Vocal at the 28th annual Grammy Awards.

• The songwriting credits are shared between Mark Knopfler and Sting.

• Sting has stated that his only compositional contribution was the "I Want My MTV" line but his publishing company insisted on a co-writing credit (and royalties)

• Dire Straits and “Money for Nothing” your #1@1 from September 1985.