The first three songs on the Dire Straits album “Making Movies” (1980)

The opener of the first side of the Dire Straits album "Making Movies" (1980), "Tunnel of Love", vividly evokes a fairground romance on the titular ride and several others, as well as arcades and dance floors. The second song, "Romeo and Juliet", retells Shakespeare's play with a breakup rather than a tragedy. After first forgetting "the movie song" ("Somewhere" from "West Side Story", an earlier Shakespeare revision), the singing Romeo later remembers it: "There's a place for us, you know the movie song". In the final song, "Skateaway", a young woman roller-skating around a city listens to a transistor radio, and the album's title comes up: "She's making movies on location". (Andrew Shields, #111words, 2 January 2025)