Lord Rare Rock on Instagram: "CLAPTON ON RHYTHM GUITAR - Dire Straits & Eric Clapton perform “Money for Nothing” at Knebworth (1990). Dire Straits recorded this song in Montserrat. Sting was on vacation there and came by to help out. This song is about rock star excess and the easy life it brings compared with real work. Mark Knopfler wrote it after overhearing delivery men in a New York department store complain about their jobs while watching MTV. He wrote the song in the store sitting at a ki