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0:00Music facts that sound fake but are real.
0:02In 1985, Dire Straits released a track that would define an era.
0:05But the lyrics weren't written in a fancy studio.
0:08They were actually stolen from a real life conversation
0:11in a New York appliance store.
0:12The band's lead singer, Mark Knopfler,
0:14was shopping
0:15when he noticed a delivery man standing in the back of the shop.
0:18The guy was staring at a wall of televisions and providing a hilarious
0:21grumbling commentary on the rock stars he saw on the screen.
0:24Knoppler was so captivated by the guy's raw,
0:27unfiltered complaints that he asked a store clerk for a pen and paper.
0:31He sat down right there behind a display
0:33and started writing down exactly what the man was saying.
0:36You won't believe how much of the final song came from that one
0:38random rant. Lines like that ain't working.
0:41That's the way you do it weren't poetic metaphors.
0:43They were the literal words of a man
0:45frustrated that he was moving refrigerators and colored TVs
0:49while people on screen got paid to play guitar.
0:51He even complained that these guys were getting their chicks for free
0:54just for making noise. That track,
0:56which turned a stranger's bad mood
0:58into one of the biggest rock anthems of all time
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