"In Sweden, I get to be a normal guy," he says. "I think people knew me from the video," Cherry says. Cherry played every character: a man readying for a date, a butcher on the street, a truck driver, and a busker. The song came out to little fanfare, and they shot a low-budget music video in black-and-white on the streets of Stockholm. "Save Tonight" was the lead single on Cherry's first album Desireless, released in October 1997 in Sweden, where Cherry was living at the time after a stint in New York City. Twenty years later, "Save Tonight" is a cover-band classic, played in small bars and in a steady rotation on radio stations that play hits from the '90s and, 2000s. And to be fair, though "Save Tonight" feels a little dated today, with its heavy guitar, repetitive chorus, and conspicuous lack of digital production, it's still catchy enough to get stuck in your head for weeks. "Which I guess it kind of is."Įagle-Eye Cherry (real name: Eagle-Eye Cherry) wanted to "create something that would stand the test of time." To this day, he feels like "Save Tonight" is it. "People point at me and say 'Save Tonight?' like it's my name," he tells GQ. It's been twenty years since Cherry released his first single ever, but he still gets stopped on the street, picked out in crowds. Another time, he was on a cruise ship and his friends forced him on stage when a cover band started that distinctive guitar strumming. Once, he was walking out of a ski rental place in his ski boots, and as he passed through a crowd of people, a live band was playing it.
Eagle-Eye Cherry is used to hearing his song by now.
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