What is "tunnel of love"

n. 1 A carnival dark ride for couples, either relaxing and romantic, or spooky (encouraging the couple to cling to one another). 2 (cx lang=en slang) birth canal

Tunnel of Love is the eighth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. The album was originally released on October 9, 1987. Although members of the E Street Band were used occasionally on the album, Springsteen recorded most of the parts himself, often with drum machines and synthesizers. Although the album's liner notes list the E Street Band members under that name, Shore Fire Media, Springsteen's public relations firm, does not count it as an E Street Band album and 2002's The Rising was advertised as "his first studio album with the E Street Band since 'Born in the USA'".

In 1989, the album was ranked #25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" while in 2003, the same magazine ranked it at #467 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. " Brilliant Disguise", " Tunnel of Love", " One Step Up", " Tougher Than the Rest", and " Spare Parts" were all released as singles.

Tunnel of love may refer to:

• Tunnel of love (ride), an amusement park boat ride
• The Tunnel of Love, a 1958 film starring Doris Day
• The Tunnel of Love, a 1954 novel by Peter De Vries
• The Tunnel of Love, a 1957 Broadway play by De Vries and Joseph Fields; basis for the film
• Tunnel of Love (railway), a local amusement railway in Klevan, Ukraine.
• Tunnel of Love (China), a local amusement railway in Nanjing, China.
• Tunnel of Love (Romania), a local amusement railway near Caransebeș, Romania.

In music:

• "Tunnel of Love" (Dire Straits song), a 1980 Dire Straits song
• Tunnel of Love (album), a 1987 Bruce Springsteen album
• "Tunnel of Love" (Bruce Springsteen song), title song from the album
• Tunnel of Love Express Tour, tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band promoting the album
• Tunnel of Love (EP), a 1996 EP by Insane Clown Posse
• " The Tunnel of Love", a 1983 song by Fun Boy Three from Waiting
• "Tunnel of Love", a 2000 song by Westlife, a B-side of the single " Fool Again"

Tunnel of Love is the fourth EP by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on June 11, 1996 by Psychopathic Records. It is the third and final "sideshow" entry in the group's Dark Carnival saga. It is the 8th overall release by Insane Clown Posse.

"Tunnel of Love" is the title song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel of Love album. It was released as the second single from the album, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Like the first single from the album, " Brilliant Disguise", "Tunnel of Love" reached number one on the Album Rock Tracks chart. The single had less commercial success in other countries.

The Tunnel of Love (, Tunel Kokhannya) is a section of industrial railway located near Klevan, Ukraine, that links it with Orzhiv. It is a railway surrounded by green arches and is three to five kilometers in length. It is known for being a favorite place for couples to take walks.

"Tunnel of Love" is a 1980 rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the 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.

It reached the position of only #54 in the UK Singles Chart upon its single release in October 1981, despite being one of the band's most famous and popular songs. Two music videos exist for the song, one depicting Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Pick Withers performing on a blank set, intercut with imagery and actors relevant to the lyrics, the other featuring a larger band arrangement and telling the story of a couple escaping a group of soldiers who chase them from a funfair.

The Spanish City in the song was a fairground located in Whitley Bay, part of the North Sea coast to the north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne, one train stop along from Cullercoats as mentioned in the song. The term "Rockaway" references Rockaway Beach in New York City, the location of the Rockaways' Playland amusement park. In 1980s concerts, Dire Straits played the central theme of The Animals' " Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" during an extended instrumental introduction to the song, as Knopfler talked about that group's hometown of Newcastle. Knopfler's outro solo has received numerous plaudits over the years:

"Throughout "Tunnel of Love," Mark Knopfler dramatizes this close encounter by using his guitar as a Greek chorus. [...] Later, as Knopfler walks alone through the "carousel and the carnival arcades," waiting for another night and another girl, he wraps his voice like a ratty old raincoat around Bittan's gently tinkling piano and the long guitar solo that ends the track. Somehow, the evocative moan of the artist's guitar suggests a truth much deeper than the carnival-as-life metaphor has revealed."

"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 Carousel.

Mark Knopfler also sometimes played melody from chorus of Stop! In the Name of Love by The Supremes as an additional intro prior to the "Carousel Waltz" while performing this song live.

The song is referred to in the novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams: "Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink."

It was used in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. The song is sampled in John Legend's "I Love, You Love" on his 2008 Evolver album. The English folk duo Show of Hands recorded a cover version of this song on their 2011 album Covers 2.