Their songs "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen to Your Heart" continue to receive wide radio airplay, with both singles recently receiving awards from BMI for achieving five million radio plays. Their latest studio album, Good Karma, was released in 2016. Formed in 1986 in Halmstad, Sweden by Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson. In 2011, they released Charm School, their first studio album in ten years, which was followed by Travelling in 2012. Gessle went on to release solo albums and reunited with Gyllene Tider before Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in 8 years, in 2009, during Gessle's European Party Crasher tour. Roxette get off their tour bus in the middle of the desert somewhere, and they jump up on the hood of a red. Along with It Must Have Been Love, Joyride is their biggest. The Joyride video remains committed to that spirit of ecstatic meaninglessness. Joyride topped the chart in nineteen countries worldwide, including the US where they got their fourth chart topping single. Roxette - Joyride 30th Anniversary - (Deluxe 3CD Album)Swedish group Roxette marks the 30th Anniversary of their third album Joyride, following the band’s spectacular global breakthrough with Look Sharp in 1989. In 2002, the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Roxette were back in early 1991 with their third album Joyride and the title track which was released as the lead single. They continued to chart in other territories, mainly in Europe and Latin America, where they earned various Gold and Platinum awards until the beginning of the new millennium. On the advice of the managing director of their record label, they came together to record "Neverending Love", which became a hit single in Sweden.Īfter the release of Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, a greatest hits record, the duo took a hiatus before returning with the albums Have a Nice Day (1999) and Room Service (2001). Other hits include "Dressed for Success", "Dangerous", and "Fading Like a Flower".Before coming together to form the duo, Fredriksson and Gessle were already established artists in Sweden, with Fredriksson releasing a number of solo albums and Gessle being the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider, which had three No. Roxette went on to achieve nineteen UK Top 40 hits and several US Hot 100 hits, including four US number-ones with "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love", and "Joyride". Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act in the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough album Look Sharp! Their third album Joyride, which was released in 1991, became just as successful as its predecessor. The band topped the Australian singles charts three-times with smash hits It Must Have Been Love, Joyride and The Look, with five of their albums reaching the.
Roxette are a Swedish soft rock duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson (vocals and keyboards) and Per Gessle (vocals and guitar).
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