Tunnel of Love (Dire Straits song) Tunnel of Love (Dire Straits song) "Tunnel of Love" is a 1980s rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the album "Making Movies", and subsequently on the live albums "" and "Live at the BBC" and the greatest hits albums "Money for Nothing", "", and "". "Tunnel of Love" is one of only three Dire Straits songs not credited to 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 the "Carousel Waltz" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
Dire Straits and became a fixture in the band's live performances. Bob Dylan, who had seen the band play in Los Angeles, was so impressed that he invited Mark Knopfler and drummer Pick Withers to play on his next album, "Slow Train Coming". Recording sessions for the group's second album, "Communiqué", took place in December 1978 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. Released in June 1979, "Communiqué" was produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett and went to No. 1 on the German album charts, with the debut album "Dire Straits" simultaneously at No. 3. In the United Kingdom the album