This was directed by Julien Temple right off The Greatest Rock n Roll Swindle fame with the Sex Pistols. My roommate, Smiler (RIP), and I were extras (the soldiers) and got paid £100 each for two days' work. Was either 1980 or 1981. Nice to find this still floating around. x
This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Never gets old, no matter how much I listen to it. And the lyrics are amazing, even by Knopfler's standards. Paints such a vivid picture, it's amazing. I don't think the song is about anything too deep though. Not about the meaning of life or love or anything like that. Just about some girl he met at a fairground/carnival when he was growing up. But the lyrics are so good you can read more into it if you want.
Mi piace dire che quella era "vera musica". Lo so che è non è corretto ...ma a me faceva provare sentimenti che con le canzoni di oggi non sento. Grazie per questo video meraviglioso.
Greatest song ever!!! My favorite one. My father used to play Straits every weekend since I was 5! Me and my brother grow up listen to this "classic rock'n roll". Thanks father! You rock! =]
only a british band could bring so much of versitality into their lyrics.their perception of life blended with lyrics gives us a rare pleasure unheard of in other quarters of the world.i love dire straits.
I was 14 when "Making Movies" came out. It fell on me like a boulder. What an incredible experience. "Romeo and Juliet", "Expresso Love", "Hand in Hand", this song. Wow. I've only had that initial, completely overwhelmed feeling a couple of times since. Wilco's "Summerteeth," the White Stripes' "Get Behind Me Satan". Maybe Conor Oberst & Mystic Valley Band's "Outer South" just recently. Truly great records become a part of who you are.
I think this is one of the greatest songs ever created. It has left a lasting impression in my life. I first heard it when I was only 7 and the ending solo still uplifts me. I have listened to alot of music over the years from mainstream pop to black metal and no song can compare to this :)
E' stato il primo pezzo che mi capitò di ascoltare dei Dire Straits. Proprio questo, è stato anche il videoclip che ho visto: su Italia 1, quando ancora, si chiamava Antenna 1. Ritrovarlo, è stato bellissimo. Peccato per la qualità, ma mi rendo conto che stiamo parlando di un video analogico, senza contare l'età, e il fatto che sia una versione alternativa.... Bello, davvero. Grandi, Dire Straits.
that outro solo is easily my all time favorite Mark kmoment...as a struggling musician it is my dream to be able put a fraction of as much emotion in guitar playing as he does there
Dire Straits é a melhor banda que já ouvi, suas composições são riquíssimas em arranjos e detalhes posso dizer sem dúvida elas tem alma, e essa Tunnel of Love é a música do Dire Straits que mais gosto, ela fez parte da minha infância e ainda a escuto até hoje sua letra tem uma história incrível e o solo de guitarra do Mark Knopfler é digno de um verdadeiro gênio da guitarra, então parabéns ao Dire Straits!
this is my fav dire straits tune - very time we go back up to the north east we put this on and sing our hearts out as we drive round whitley bay and cullercoats - just wish all of the spanish city was still there
Questo video è una vera chicca. Cosa darei per poterlo avere in dvd!!!! Tunnel of love è la mia canzone preferita in assoluto, e il mio ricordo visivo più nitido verso questo brano è proprio riferito a questo videoclips.
Radioact thanks for Posting this, i remember this was one of the first videos. I was in my flat in SW London when it came on the telly, they explained that it was kind of like a mini movie, we all thought it was brilliant. In the years since i could never find this i started to believe that maybe i dreamed the whole thing. THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everyone makes such a big deal about how sultans of swing is dire straits best song but personally, this song is my favourite and this solo is my favourite of all the guitar solos ever --- your my hero mark
"she took off her silver locket, said remember me by this, she put her hand in my pocket i got a keep sake and a kiss". oh to be twenty again, what memories this song brings back...mk is the best !
Let me also add that one of the greatest uses of music in a film was in an Office and a Gentleman, where Richard Gere's character runs into Debra Winger's character at the local bar after they break up. Beautiful
this is an incrdible song,first time i ever saw this version of the video,his Guitar playing is exceptinal on this track from begining to end....one of his best for sure.
I just started liking Dire Straits songs after I just heard one on the radio. This song is really awesome, just like the music video. My dad has this song on a really old audio cd and suprizingly it was pretty good sound quality and I also have it on my iPod
They made 2 videos for 'Tunnel of Love'? I'd never seen this one until today but I saw the other one when Making Movies first came out. Not surprised, this version would have been a bit controversial while the other is safer and fun. Thanks for posting it!
Right up there my friend. First time I ever heard this song was out in San Francisco at the end of my substance abuse days. Did a whole bunch of mushrooms. Ate about 20 grams............that's alot. {Too much.} Heard this song. Played it all night. Literally all night. Greatest song I ever heard. Incredible guitar.
:D I think this is my best favourite form dire Straits...... Lyrics and Music simply Rocks!!!!!!!! A master piece. At least in my life. "Just like me she was a victim of the night"
La verdad, no se mucho de guitarras, pero el sonido tan carismático y simplemente genial que consigue Mark y sus dire straits no lo consigue nadie más, ni siquiera los que has mencionado.
Pezzo veramente fantastico l'ho ascoltato decine di volte e mi emoziona sempre di piu'.
Grandissimi musicisti fantastici
This was directed by Julien Temple right off The Greatest Rock n Roll Swindle fame with the Sex Pistols. My roommate, Smiler (RIP), and I were extras (the soldiers) and got paid £100 each for two days' work. Was either 1980 or 1981. Nice to find this still floating around. x
This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Never gets old, no matter how much I listen to it. And the lyrics are amazing, even by Knopfler's standards. Paints such a vivid picture, it's amazing.
I don't think the song is about anything too deep though. Not about the meaning of life or love or anything like that. Just about some girl he met at a fairground/carnival when he was growing up. But the lyrics are so good you can read more into it if you want.
En los 80 se hacían vídeoclips tan buenos cómo éste. Saludos.
It's difficult to say what this band and its music meant to me when I was a teen. Good times!! Thank you Mark & Co.
My favourite Dire Straits song. I think its their best too.
Great outro solo. Perfect.
"I don't know where i'll be tonight, but i'll always tell you where i am." Brilliant!
Non ti smentirà nessuno! E' assolutamente una delle canzoni più belle di sempre...
Mi piace dire che quella era "vera musica". Lo so che è non è corretto ...ma a me faceva provare sentimenti che con le canzoni di oggi non sento. Grazie per questo video meraviglioso.
Greatest song ever!!!
My favorite one.
My father used to play Straits every weekend since I was 5! Me and my brother grow up listen to this "classic rock'n roll".
Thanks father! You rock! =]
Enfin :
Il y a si longtemps que je questionne les uns et les autres !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merci à vous
only a british band could bring so much of versitality into their lyrics.their perception of life blended with lyrics gives us a rare pleasure unheard of in other quarters of the world.i love dire straits.
knopfler at it's best.. I feel blessed to be part of the generation that has seen this guitar hero come to life..
One of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard.. for sure... AMAZING!
I was 14 when "Making Movies" came out. It fell on me like a boulder. What an incredible experience. "Romeo and Juliet", "Expresso Love", "Hand in Hand", this song. Wow. I've only had that initial, completely overwhelmed feeling a couple of times since. Wilco's "Summerteeth," the White Stripes' "Get Behind Me Satan". Maybe Conor Oberst & Mystic Valley Band's "Outer South" just recently. Truly great records become a part of who you are.
Awesome rare alternative clip. Love this song. Quality ++++
One of the best guitar solos ever. It's got a unique ring to it.
I would know how many people begun to play guitar after listening this album. Like me.
Simply perfect.
I love Mark.
Per me questa canzone la puoi sentire quante volte vuoi e se veramente ti piace non te la stancherai mai.
I think this is one of the greatest songs ever created. It has left a lasting impression in my life. I first heard it when I was only 7 and the ending solo still uplifts me. I have listened to alot of music over the years from mainstream pop to black metal and no song can compare to this :)
Grazie dall'italia per questa meravigliosa canzone!
The solo in the end makes me shiver eveytime. Knopfler is a living god.
Mark Knopfler is able to infuse his guitar with such soul- he makes it look and sound so easy. One of my favorite guitarists ever!
E' stato il primo pezzo che mi capitò di ascoltare dei Dire Straits. Proprio questo, è stato anche il videoclip che ho visto: su Italia 1, quando ancora, si chiamava Antenna 1. Ritrovarlo, è stato bellissimo. Peccato per la qualità, ma mi rendo conto che stiamo parlando di un video analogico, senza contare l'età, e il fatto che sia una versione alternativa.... Bello, davvero. Grandi, Dire Straits.
Best of the best of the best of the best of the best.And sometimes makes my cry!
Thank you Knopfler **
QUANDO L'HO ASCOLTATA LA PRIMA VOLTA AVEVO 12 ANNI ED ERA BELLISSIMA ,OGGI LA RIASCOLTO ED E' ANCORA STUPENDA
that outro solo is easily my all time favorite Mark kmoment...as a struggling musician it is my dream to be able put a fraction of as much emotion in guitar playing as he does there
I saw the video on MTV Italy last night and I was so happy about it! This is my favourite song ever! Best band I've ever heard.
Davide
Congrats. Great song, great album. Great time to be alive.
posso dire senza timore di smentita che questa è una delle 10 canzoni più belle di tutti i tempi?
One of the best Dire Straits songs ever.
Dire Straits é a melhor banda que já ouvi, suas composições são riquíssimas em arranjos e detalhes posso dizer sem dúvida elas tem alma, e essa Tunnel of Love é a música do Dire Straits que mais gosto, ela fez parte da minha infância e ainda a escuto até hoje sua letra tem uma história incrível e o solo de guitarra do Mark Knopfler é digno de um verdadeiro gênio da guitarra, então parabéns ao Dire Straits!
guy in video is the coolest cat ever
Classic, epic song - an all-time great. If you don't like this, you're a bad person. Glad to see Falco was available to star in the video, too.
this is my fav dire straits tune - very time we go back up to the north east we put this on and sing our hearts out as we drive round whitley bay and cullercoats - just wish all of the spanish city was still there
Questo video è una vera chicca. Cosa darei per poterlo avere in dvd!!!! Tunnel of love è la mia canzone preferita in assoluto, e il mio ricordo visivo più nitido verso questo brano è proprio riferito a questo videoclips.
bellissimi gli ultimi 30 secondi di (solo) pianoforte...
QUESTA CANZONE è SPLENIDA
8 min is too short for this song...especially for last 2 minutes...thanks Mark for this great song...one of the best ever...
Radioact thanks for Posting this, i remember this was one of the first videos. I was in my flat in SW London when it came on the telly, they explained that it was kind of like a mini movie, we all thought it was brilliant. In the years since i could never find this i started to believe that maybe i dreamed the whole thing.
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes I find this song extremely happy and sometimes exactly the opposite... simply amazing.
I think we have all experienced this......
Its a part of life!!!!
Thanks for your reply.
Unique guitarplayer with a own sound!
Personally i think ' Local Hero' is his best song
Mark is such a great guitarist!!!!
I'm surprised this isn't the most watched video on UA-cam. This is awesome.
everyone makes such a big deal about how sultans of swing is dire straits best song but personally, this song is my favourite and this solo is my favourite of all the guitar solos ever --- your my hero mark
Questa è musica! fà venire i brividi dopo tutti questi anni
That's a pity I didn't live in the 80's! I'm sure music was so better than nowadays!
"she took off her silver locket, said remember me by this, she put her hand in my pocket i got a keep sake and a kiss". oh to be twenty again, what memories this song brings back...mk is the best !
This is AWESOME!!! What a great song, can't believe it...
Love that song! My all-time favourite guitar solo at the end...
mark is simply the best, and dire straits were the greatest band ever...
Let me also add that one of the greatest uses of music in a film was in an Office and a Gentleman, where Richard Gere's character runs into Debra Winger's character at the local bar after they break up. Beautiful
mark knofler is the best!!
he plays sweet guitar solos and sings great..
absolutely great, It was my first Lp when I was about ten or eleven years old, I've immediately loved It.
DIRE STRAITS, uma das melhores bandas de rock de todos os tempos. Essa música, fez parte da minha vida. Um clássico do DIRE STRAITS.
A truly amazing song.I never get tired of it.Beautiful guitar.Love it.
Thank you Mr.Knofler for yours musik.
The song of my life...with an immortal guitar solo...
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs!
i agree i drove down the country listenin to these on a suny day n there's no better drivin music...maybes oasis
I am from Morocco; this is THE BEST ROCK MUSIC EVER.
I live in Whitley bay, it brings back memories of the Spanish City for me too, great times.
Making Movies is one of the greatest album of ALL TIME...
this is an incrdible song,first time i ever saw this version of the video,his Guitar playing is exceptinal on this track from begining to end....one of his best for sure.
Just one great song from that great LP.
ohh man.... 70's memories....for sure.
I just started liking Dire Straits songs after I just heard one on the radio. This song is really awesome, just like the music video. My dad has this song on a really old audio cd and suprizingly it was pretty good sound quality and I also have it on my iPod
Awesome guitar solo... epic song, thanks Dire Straits...
They made 2 videos for 'Tunnel of Love'? I'd never seen this one until today but I saw the other one when Making Movies first came out. Not surprised, this version would have been a bit controversial while the other is safer and fun.
Thanks for posting it!
Right up there my friend. First time I ever heard this song was out in San Francisco at the end of my substance abuse days. Did a whole bunch of mushrooms. Ate about 20 grams............that's alot. {Too much.} Heard this song. Played it all night. Literally all night. Greatest song I ever heard. Incredible guitar.
I love This SONG!!!
I love Dire Straits!!!
Bloody hells bells proper music. Thank You.!!!
Al primo ascolto me ne innamorai, e ora non posso non continuare ad ascoltarla!
This song is a brilliant piece of music.
brinkadeira, esse som ninguem hoje heim dia consegue fazer, muito bom
One of the best songs ever!
Proper One Yeah remind me when i use to spend great time at the beach in da car with my mates when i was child hehe some great time nostalgia
This is the best song ever made.
This is the most perfect song ever made
mark knopfler: one of the most under-rated guitarists in the history of music, just saying...he often times doesn't use a pick...because its too easy
He is unique and that's what makes a real musician not fancy technique, though he has both :)
Love this song.Love drumming to it too.Awesome.
love the solo at the end. He sings with his guitar
Great tune! Love playing it on my Keytar!
:D I think this is my best favourite form dire Straits......
Lyrics and Music simply Rocks!!!!!!!!
A master piece. At least in my life.
"Just like me she was a victim of the night"
One of oh, so many, many, great DS songs.
Most beautiful guitar solo ever. End of story
La verdad, no se mucho de guitarras, pero el sonido tan carismático y simplemente genial que consigue Mark y sus dire straits no lo consigue nadie más, ni siquiera los que has mencionado.
this song is a real chef-d'oeuvre!!!
Bravo! Youre a monster Mark!
Best of the best of the best of the best.And sometimes makes my cry
DIRE STRAITS SLAYS!
the best solo of the world!
Dire Straits, for ever !!
GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT DIRE STRAITSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SHOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT´S CLASSIC ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!
I gotta say,Pick Withers is an awesome drummer very underated.
one of the masters of rock, although i find the sound with a low quality.
absolutely amazing!! god of rock, hail to Mark Knopfler
The most heartbreaking solo ever made.