- When MTV branched out to Europe on 1 August 1987, the band's "Money for Nothing" was the very first video to be aired for the launch. The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" had been used for the premiere of MTV in the US on 1 August 1981.
- The name came about because most of its members were broke when they formed the band.
- They were the first band to sell a million copies in the then new CD format when their "Brothers in Arms" album was released in 1985.
- They won the British Phonographic Industry Award for British Group in 1983 and 1986 and "Brothers in Arms" won the British Phonographic Industry Award for British Album in 1987.
- They were discovered by Charlie Gillett in 1976 after he played "Sultans of Swing" from the band's demo tape on his influential BBC Radio London show Honky Tonk.
- Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start/ and I bet/ and you exploded in my heart/ and I forget, I forget/ the movie song/ when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?
- All I do is miss you and the way we used to be/ All I do is keep the beat and the bad company/ All I do is kiss you through the Bars of Orion/ Juliet I'd do the stars with you anytime.
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