Johnny Burnette

His name and song-writing abilities gained prominence again when Ringo Starr released a cover of "You're Sixteen" in 1973. Eagle-Eye Cherry Homepage (http://www.eagle-eye-cherry.com/index2.html). He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His second album came in 2000 (Living in the Present Future) but was remixed for the States (where it was released as Present/Future), but saw disappointing sales. Johnny Burnette's career was cut short at the age of 30 when he drowned in a boating accident. "Save Tonight" proved a major hit, and made Cherry into an international hit. Although they managed to get a recording contract, in 1957 the group split up due to a lack of commercial success, but while living in California in 1960 Burnette had a back-to-back major hits with songs he wrote titled "Dreamin" and "You're Sixteen", followed by "Little Boy Sad" a year later. He soon recorded Desireless, and it became a hit across Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, and an American release came in 1998.

They are considered to be the ones who originally coined the phrase "Rockabilly". After Don Cherry's death in 1995, Eagle-Eye moved to Stockholm with his girlfriend, and began to focus on songwriting. Along with his brother Dorsey Burnette and a friend, Paul Burlison, in the early 1950s he formed the Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio. He was born in Stockholm in 1971, and soon moved to New York with his father, where he began acting and playing music. Johnny Burnette (March 25, 1934 - August 14, 1964) was a Rockabilly pioneer in Memphis, Tennessee. Cherry comes from a musical family that includes sister Neneh Cherry, father Don Cherry and half-sister on his Swedish side Titiyo. Eagle-Eye Cherry is an American-Swedish singer known best for his hit "Save Tonight".