Cherokee (song)
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- Cherokee is also the name of a jazz standard written by Ray Noble.
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| Single by Europe from the album The Final Countdown |
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| Released | 1986 | ||||
| Format | 7" Single 12" Single |
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| Genre | Hard Rock, Glam metal | ||||
| Length | 4:13 | ||||
| Label | Epic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Joey Tempest | ||||
| Producer | Kevin Elson | ||||
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"Cherokee" is a 1986 hit single released by the Swedish hard rock band Europe. It was the fourth single released internationally from the album The Final Countdown, and was number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.
The song was written by vocalist Joey Tempest in 1985, and was in fact the last song written for the album.
[edit] Personnel
- Joey Tempest - Vocals
- John Norum - Guitar
- John Levén - Bass guitar
- Mic Michaeli - Keyboards
- Ian Haugland - Drums
[edit] Trivia
- The video for "Cherokee" was filmed in September 1987, in Almería, Spain. It was filmed a half mile from where Sergio Leone shot the famous Clint Eastwood spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars. When filming the scene where the horses run through the valley, someone accidentally set some brush near the set on fire. The entire video crew, including band members, had to fight the fire by quickly digging a trench around the fire to stop it spreading.
- On July 30, 2007, Cherokee and The Final Countdown were used in a preview for Superbad following Raw.
- Historically, the video is very inaccurate. It showed the Cherokee as plains Indians, living in teepees on the desert. The Cherokees originally lived in the wooded, southern Appalachian Mountains. They were forcibly moved to the wooded, rolling hills of eastern Oklahoma. The Cherokee never used teepees.
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