Money for Nothing

"Faffing about" with Lesser-knowns for Sunday Chilling

I heard this sitting in the cockpit of a Chinook thanks to a military buddy this summer and realized I hadn't heard it in decades. The quitar speaks to your soul directly. Speakers Up! :)

This song, which runs to 3 minutes 55 seconds, was inspired by an early romance in the life of composer Mark Knopfler. The waterline in question belongs to the River Tyne. Knopfler and his brother David, who also played in the band, were born in Glasgow but grew up in Newcastle.

The Dogleap Stairway referenced in the song is an alleyway with a steep set of steps in Newcastle-on-Tyne.

“Man I love this album... Had never listened till my Dad gave me his old M&K/Hafler stereo and told me to listen to this album as it was his favorite vinyl. Man was my mind fucking blown. This whole album is absolute gold!” '

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Fun Fact:

Dire Straits actually made their debut as Café Racers, in July 1977.

• Written by Mark Knopfler, this next song finds him comforting a loved one in rather poetic terms:
  
  But baby, just when this world seems mean and cold
  Our love comes shining red and gold
  And all the rest is by the way
  
  It's almost a lullaby, as he turns the cold, cruel world into a place of tranquility.

• This runs 8:31, with the last four minutes instrumental. When Mark Knopfler spoke with the BBC in 1989, he had second thoughts about this section.

"The playout of 'Why Worry' seems to be a very pointless thing to me now, all that faffing around with pretty sounds," he said.

• The Everly Brothers released this on their 1985 album Born Yesterday; Jennifer Warnes included it on her 2018 album Another Time, Another Place. She told Songfacts: "Mark Knopfler understands the Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson and all the American music, maybe more than a lot of Americans know it. He wrote this lovely, gentle song that the Everlys did, and I loved it. It's musical, it's intimate, it's loving."

Bonus! Add a link to your fav “chill” tune/s below (preferably YouTube). Have a great week ahead