Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love

What this video is

Released in February 1983, 'The Tunnel of Love' arrived as Fun Boy Three — Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staple, all ex-members of The Specials — were completing their short-lived but critically regarded second album cycle. The single returned the group to the UK top ten and was taken from 'Waiting', their final studio album, produced by David Byrne of Talking Heads. The video's dark, fairground-inflected…

Why it matters

Represents a key transitional artifact in post-2-Tone British pop — bridging ska-punk's political urgency with the atmospheric, production-literate art-pop of mid-1983 UK new wave. The Byrne-produced sonic palette and the video's theatrical visual language prefigure the more ornate British pop of…

The director

Nick Knowlden is a music video director active in the early 1980s UK promo landscape. His documented directorial credit is the 1983 promotional video for Fun Boy Three's 'The Tunnel of Love', as listed on IMDb (tt8221964) and IMVDb. No further biographical…