Three perspectives on success in songs by Dire Straits

On "Sultans of Swing", from the eponymous debut by Dire Straits (1978), the band Sultans of Swing plays swing in a bar on Fridays. One member, Harry, "doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene"; that is, he isn't worried about success. The album's next song, "In the Gallery", recounts the life of another Harry, a sculptor, who only gets "in the gallery" after he dies "in obscurity". Listening to the album the other day, I was reminded of another perspective on success in a Dire Straits song: "Money for Nothing" ("Brothers in Arms", 1985), in which an appliance salesman envies the musicians earning "money for nothing" for an MTV video. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 3 January 2025)