Just to correct a couple of errors around here:

Dire Straits are NOT Scottish - so the Canadian newspaper got that wrong. Mark Knopfler is from the NE of England.

The rich pop singer attacked by the 'narrator' in the lyrics was Boy George.

And a couple of observations:

Just once, in a Mudcat discussion which mentions homosexuality, can we not have the extraordinarily lame and predictable anti-gay ''''quips'''' from a small minority of posters ? There are of us faggots (oh irony) out here reading the site, and enjoy doing so despite its overwhelming heteronormativity (look it up!)

And it's very scary that so many here seem to rate this bland dreary song so highly! I do like some DS songs, but by the time of MFN they were dull corporate FM-radio soft-rock.

I wouldn't ban the song, if you're wondering, but I'd rather never hear it again on the grounds of personal taste!