Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson teamed up in 1985.

Their song 'It Must Have Been Love" was included on the soundtrack for Pretty Woman.

Their first U.S. hit was "The Look", which became a hit before their album 'Look Sharp' was officially released worldwide.

They're married...but not to each other. :)

What can you find out?

Sweden gave them their own stamp in 1991.

Lead singer Marie Frederiksson fell recently at her home in Sweden. She was taken to a hospital suffering from a concussion. A medical exam showed that she is suffering from a brain tumor, for which she is currently being treated. Best wishes to her and I hope that she makes a very speedy and complete recovery!

They released an album in 1986 that didn't display much of their talents, but the infectious follow-up, 1988's Look Sharp!, brought them to the top of the charts in America and England; 1991's Joyride was almost equally successful.

They released a greatest hits collection called "Don't bore us, get to the chorus"

They released another greatest hits with songs sung in Spanish.

When they first formed, critics didn't know how well they'd do since the 2 were vastly different; Per Gessel was in his own rock band and Marie was a singer of very different music (soft rock I think).

US charts:

#1 The look 1989
#14 Dressed for success 1989
#1 Listen to your heart 1989
#2 Dangerous 1990
#1 It must have been love 1990
#1 Joyride 1991
#2 Fading like a flower (every time you leave) 1991
#32 Spending my time 1992
#36 Church of your heart 1992
#58 How do you do 1992
#94 Almost unreal 1993
#50 Sleeping in my car 1994

UK charts:

#7 The look 1989
#48 Dressed for success 1989
#62 Listen to your heart 1989
#3 It must have been love 1990
#6 Listen to your heart/Dangerous (re-issue) 1990
#18 Dressed for success (re-issue) 1990
#4 Joyride 1991
#12 Fading like a flower 1991
#21 The big L 1991
#22 Spending my time 1991
#21 Church of the heart 1992
#13 How do you do 1992
#28 Queen of rain 1992
#7 Almost unreal 1993
#10 It must have been love (re-issue) 1993
#14 Sleeping in my car 1994
#26 Crash! Boom! Bang! 1994
#30 Fireworks 1994
#27 Run to you 1994
#44 Vulnerable 1995
#28 The look (remix) 1995
#42 You don't understand me 1996
#52 June afternoon 1996
#11 Wish I could fly 1999
#56 Stars 1999
(the book I have only goes to 1999)

Adult contemporary:

#2 Listen to your heart 1989
#21 Dangerous 1990
#2 It must have been love 1990
#21 Joyride 1991
#5 Fading like a flower (every time you leave) 1991
#20 Spending my time 1991
#24 Church of your heart 1992
#45 Almost unreal 1993

Wow, Roxette have an impressive list of songs that charted, especially in the UK, where they continued a successful career well into the 90s! Thanks for the info, DJ. :thumb:

Originally posted by 80sTrivia
Lead singer Marie Frederiksson fell recently at her home in Sweden. She was taken to a hospital suffering from a concussion. A medical exam showed that she is suffering from a brain tumor, for which she is currently being treated. Best wishes to her and I hope that she makes a very speedy and complete recovery!

Oh man, I could have went the rest of my life without knowing that. That stinks on ice. I hope that she recovers fully and completely and that she goes on to lead a charmed life. Damn I hate hearing bummer news.

roxette got a bad rap at the time. they were producing high quality pop singles, but they were somewhat cheesy, so they never got the respect they deserved. anyway, i own the greatest hits CD and "Crash Boom Bang". Favorite tracks include "joyride", "fading like a flower", "how do you do!", "sleeping in your car" and "fireworks". towards the end, they were sounding very much like late period Eurythmics.

Per Gessle has his owne before roxett groupe "Gyllene tider" means something like good old times....they sings in swedish

the groupe had reunion tour in 2004... sold over 500000 tickets in sweden...

2nd biggest tour Europe in 2004

They released a greatest hits collection called "Don't bore us, get to the chorus"

This is in my CD player constantly. What a great set of songs, always liked Roxette, still do!

Their 2001 song "Wish I Could Fly" was a success in Canada. I remember seeing the video for it quite a bit on MuchMusic (That's Canada's version of MTV)

Yesterday the nominations for the Swedish Grammis have been revealed.
There are four nominations for Gyllene Tider/ Per Gessle: Song of the year (”Tuffa tider/Sten vid en sjö i en skog” ), Popgroup of the year (GT), Composer of the year (Per) and Artist of the year (GT).

Some of the competitors for GT and Per are Raymond and Maria, Lena Philipsson, Alcazar, Marit Bergman and Soundtrack Of Our Lives.

Gyllene Tider is the winner... 100%

Here's some interesting tidbits:

-Marie just released her first all English solo CD in Europe called "The Change".

-Marie was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2003. The tumor was removed successful and since then Marie has made a full recovery.

Just heard roxette on the radio while I was clickin on this thread!! :thumb: REady to get my lighter out and point it to the sky! :clap: