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The feel of the guitarist rhythm we changed up a bit, but the vision that I had laid down in the demo, the whole acoustic guitar-driven concept, the melody and lyrics were all mainly there from the beginning. “The vibe that I heard in my head is pretty much exactly where we took it. I had played rock music in different bands and had listened to everything, so I wasn’t specifically like, ‘This is what I’m going to do,’ but by the end, when Save Tonight came along, I had realised, ‘Okay, I am working in more of the Americana pop-rock tradition and that’s what really turns me on.’ Save Tonight encapsulates that discovery of who I am, musically. By the end of making my first album, I had figured out who I really was, musically. I felt like the album needed something a bit more uptempo, so that’s Save Tonight – which isn’t even that high tempo itself. Desireless is actually quite a laidback album and the tempo on most of the songs is pretty low. “It was one of the last songs that I wrote for the album. Especially when it comes to pop music, I think simplicity is gold. I didn’t even think about putting a middle eight in there. That’s why Save Tonight only has four chords. I then started getting into writing but hadn’t discovered the acoustic guitar until I got to Stockholm and borrowed an apartment that had one. I grew up drumming as a kid, with my dad and drumming in bands in New York. Once I could see what the story was, it seemed like it almost wrote itself and I just caught the song. “Some songs are hard to write, they can take a couple of days, but I wrote this in just a couple of hours. I’m damn glad I stayed home that day because it changed my life. I stayed home on that sunny day and once I had come up with the line, ‘Save tonight, fight the break of dawn,’ I knew I was on to something. US chart position: 5“I’m pretty sure it was a Saturday, the day I would usually play football, especially on a day like that which was really sunny, but I started to get the song and I decided not to go out and play. In fact, it was the transient lifestyle of his father which inspired his most famous release, as he recalls here… We know it would be doing a disservice to the hours of practice and hard work that any musician puts into his craft to suggest that Eagle-Eye was always destined for such success but, as the son of jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and the half-brother of 90s star Neneh Cherry, he certainly had music coursing through his veins from the off. The "first" Cherry appears once again at the end of the video, apparently walking to his date's place.Eagle-Eye Cherry: “The more it took me around the world, the more my life became the song…” When this pop-rock classic landed on both sides of the Atlantic it became a self-fulfilling prophecy for its creatorĪ debut single which storms the charts across the world, propels its parent album to similar success and is played on the radio for decades to come must be the stuff of songwriting dreams for most artists, and it’s a dream which Swedish singer-songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry realised in 1997 with his song Save Tonight a pop-rock classic which remains instantly recognisable to this day. Another Cherry is seen playing a guitar and another is a bum on the street. As he leaves, however, he is run over by a van, and as bystanders help him up, he is revealed to be Cherry, as is the driver in the van. A robber wearing a ski mask then comes along and takes the money out of the cash register. He then tells the butcher "goodbye" and the camera reveals that the butcher is in fact Cherry himself. At first, he is a man getting ready for a date by buying some roses and a bottle of wine at a deli. The monochrome video for the song features Cherry playing different characters and seeing the story from different perspectives. It was featured on the video game Karaoke Revolution and was featured in the movie A Lot Like Love. It is considered to be his signature song.
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The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its first single, reaching #3 in Ireland, #5 in the USA, #6 in the UK and #2 in Cherry's native Sweden.
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"Save Tonight" is a rock single written by Eagle-Eye Cherry for his 1997 debut album Desireless.