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 Williams left the band. Mark Knopfler announced the official dissolution of Dire Straits in September 1988. He told Rob Tannenbaum in "Rolling Stone": "A lot of press reports were saying we were the biggest band in the world. There's not an accent then on the music, there's an accent on popularity. I needed a rest." The tremendous success of the "Brothers in Arms" album and the tour that went with it left the band members under a significant amount of stress, and Knopfler announced that he wanted to work on more personal projects. A greatest hits album, slyly titled "Money