Tunnel of Love (song)
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| "Tunnel of Love" | ||
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| Single by Dire Straits | ||
| from the album Making Movies | ||
| Released | 1981 | |
| Format | 7'' | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 08:08 | |
| Label | Vertigo | |
| Writer(s) | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II // Mark Knopfler | |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Iovine/Mark Knopfler | |
| Dire Straits singles chronology | ||
| Skateaway (1981) |
"Tunnel of Love" (1981) |
Private Investigations (1982) |
"Tunnel of Love" is a 1981 rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the album Making Movies, and subsequently on the live album Live at the BBC and the greatest hits albums Money for Nothing, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits, and The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations. It reached a disappointing position of only #54 in the UK singles chart.
"Tunnel of Love" is one of only three Dire Straits songs not written by Mark Knopfler alone (the other two are "Money for Nothing" and "What's The Matter Baby?"). The song itself is entirely by Knopfler, but the opening instrumental is an arrangement of a melody from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
The song is referred to in the novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams.[1]
| Dire Straits |
| Mark Knopfler
John Illsley | Alan Clark | Guy Fletcher | David Knopfler | Pick Withers | Hal Lindes | Terry Williams | Jack Sonni |
| Discography |
| Albums and extended plays: Dire Straits | Communiqué | Making Movies | Love over Gold | ExtendedancEPlay | Alchemy | Brothers in Arms | On Every Street | On the Night | Encores | Live at the BBC | Money for Nothing | Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits | The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations |
| Hit Singles: Sultans of Swing | Lady Writer | Romeo and Juliet | Skateaway | Private Investigations | Twisting by the Pool | So Far Away | Money for Nothing | Brothers in Arms | Walk of Life | Your Latest Trick | Calling Elvis | Heavy Fuel | |
