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Tunnel Of Love by Dire Straits
Genre: Rock
Year: 1980
Year: 1980
"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, , and . It reached the position of only #54 in the UK singles chart, despite being one of the bands biggest hits.
"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 "Whats 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.
Knopflers outro solo has received numerous plaudits over the years and has many times been described as one of the most heartbreaking guitar solos in history.
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