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Roxette
Roxette were the duo of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, who came together in Halmstad, Sweden and turned a knack for big hooks into one of pop's great late-eighties runs. Songs like "The Look," "Listen to Your Heart," and "It Must Have Been Love" — the latter lifted to enormous reach by the Pretty Woman soundtrack — made them one of the biggest pop-rock acts in the world at the turn of the nineties. Fredriksson's voice, warm and powerful in equal measure, carried on through decades of records until her death in 2019.
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Look Sharp! (1988). Their international breakthrough, and still the easiest way in. It holds "The Look" and "Listen to Your Heart," the two songs that carried them around the world, plus the punchy "Dressed for Success."
Biography
Roxette is a Swedish pop rock duo originally consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. Following Fredriksson's death in 2019, Roxette continued as a live act from 2024 onwards, with Lena Philipsson appearing as live vocalist. Fredriksson and Gessle were both established musicians in Sweden prior to the band's formation. Fredriksson released several successful solo albums, while Gessle was the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider, a band that had three number one albums in Sweden. On the advice of their mutual record label EMI, Fredriksson and Gessle collaborated for their debut single, "Neverending Love" (1986), a hit in Sweden.
The band achieved international success with their second album, Look Sharp! (1988). The album spawned two US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: "The Look" and "Listen to Your Heart". "It Must Have Been Love", from soundtrack to the film Pretty Woman (1990), also reached number one in the US. Their follow-up album, Joyride (1991), remains their bestseller, selling 11 million copies worldwide, and yielded the US number-one single "Joyride". The band performed for over 1.5 million people during the Join the Joyride! Tour.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2016Good KarmaAlbum
- 2012TravellingAlbum
- 2011Charm SchoolAlbum
- 2001Room ServiceAlbum
- 1999Have a Nice DayAlbum
- 1994Crash! Boom! Bang!Album
- 1992TourismAlbum
- 1991JoyrideAlbum
- 1988Look Sharp!Album
- 1986Pearls of PassionAlbum
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