![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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