"Tonight She Comes" is a 1985 song by American rock band The Cars, from their Greatest Hits album. It was released as a single in October 1985, reaching number seven[1] on the Billboard Hot 100 in January, 1986. The song reached number one on the Top Rock Tracks charts, where it stayed for three weeks. It is a straightforward, diatonic pop rock song in F major, with a hard rock-style guitar solo by Cars guitarist, Elliot Easton.
The solo was transcribed by Steve Vai in the February 1986 issue of Guitar Player magazine, as the centerpiece to an interview with Easton. In the interview, Easton described the custom-made Kramer guitar used for the solo, and said the reason the solo was "so dense" was due to the four weeks spent recording the single, which allowed Easton ample time to compose it.
"Tonight She Comes" was The Cars' fourth Top 10 hit.[2] It was the first of two songs to be released as a single from their Greatest Hits album; a remixed version of "I'm Not the One", previously recorded in 1981 for the album Shake It Up, was the second.[2]
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