This song was inspired by the amusement rides on the boardwalk of Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Springsteen hung out and gigged growing up. He used the Tunnel Of Love ride as a metaphor for the ups and downs of a relationship. Springsteen was married to his first wife, Julianne Phillips, at the time, and they were on the rocks. They ended up getting a divorce in 1989, and in 1991 he married Patti Scialfa, a singer in his E Street Band.
"Tunnel Of Love" is the title track to an album Springsteen recorded mostly by himself in his home studio in Rumson, New Jersey. He programmed a drum machine to create the basic rhythm, then added guitar, mandolin, bass, keyboards, harmonica and percussion. Some of his band members then overdubbed their parts: Nils Lofgren: lead guitar Roy Bittan: synthesizers Max Weinberg: percussion Patti Scialfa: backing vocals
This was one of the last songs Springsteen recorded for Tunnel Of Love. He liked the title enough to use it as the name of the album.
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