Tunnel of Love (Dire Straits song)

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"Tunnel of Love" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits. It appears on the 1980 album Making Movies, and subsequently on the live albums Alchemy and 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. The song was also featured in the 1982 Richard Gere film An Officer and a Gentleman and was included on the film’s accompanying soundtrack album. The song mentions the Spanish City, a dining and entertainment centre in Whitley Bay, England, which, at the time of the song’s release, housed fair rides and other amusements, referenced throughout the song. Cullercoats, an English settlement, is also referenced in the song as is Rockaway in New York. "Tunnel of Love" is one of only three Dire Straits songs in which songwriting is not credited solely to frontman and lead guitarist Mark Knopfler, as the opening instrumental is an arrangement of the "Carousel...

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