| 2009-06-27: |
| "Incomprehensible and terribly sad. A master has left us. We will never experience anyone like him again." says Per Gessle regarding the death of Michael Jackson. |
| 2009-06-25: |
| SingStar for PS3 gets another song pack - Roxette Rocks. This pack includes the following tracks * Joyride * The Look * Dressed For Success * Sleeping In My Car * Wish I Could Fly This song pack is according to Sony already available in their SingStore. |
| 2009-06-10: |
| SingStar for PS3 gets Roxette Ballad song pack including "Fading Like a Flower" "It Must Have Been Love" "Listen to Your Heart" "Run to You" "Spending My Time" This is an online song pack, you can get it from Sony's SingStore. It's not yet known in which countries you can get the song pack. |
| 2009-06-09: |
Roxette Reunion? On Performing With Marie |
| 2009-06-03: |
| Follow Roxette on Twitter - add the user @TheRealRoxette |
| 2009-05-27: |
| Per just confirmed on Twitter that Roxette will perform July 28 on the festival "New Wave 2009" in Jurmala, Latvia, as mentioned on The Daily Roxette a few weeks ago. |
| 2009-05-06: |
| Roxette is back! On a press conference in Antwerp yesterday Per and Marie announced they will partake in the concert series called Night of the Proms! "We are thrilled to finally be able to attend 'Night of the Proms'. It's gonna be the first time we share a live stage together since 2001 and it certainly feels most exciting to do so in front of the huge 'Night of the Proms' audience. We look forward to performing some of our greatest hits and working together with the big Night of the Proms orchestra, which should fit our music very well." say Marie and Per. |
| 2009-04-21: |
| According to Per on Twitter the Rox back catalog will be remastered added to and re-released this fall! |
| 2009-04-18: |
| Will Roxette be back? Well, we don't know, but according to these articles it doesn't look impossible at least: Chart Attack, Canada ABC Action News, USA BBC, UK |
| 2009-03-29: |
| It was 20 years ago yesterday that "The Look" became Roxette's first US #1. Swedish Radio celebrated this by broadcasting a Roxette Special. Listen to it and hear demos you never heard before... |
| 2009-03-09: |
| Roxette is the Artist of the Month on Retro Rewind, a radio station based in Los Angeles. Dave Harris, Retro Rewind's host, says "Due to popular worldwide demand we’re pleased to announce that Roxette is once again artist of the month on Retro Rewind." Retro Rewind will play numerous songs from Roxette's vast library. The radio station will also broadcast a Roxette interview recorded September 2000. The shows will be rebroadcast online of course. |
| 2009-02-22: |
| Today Roxette's, then quite controversial, album "Have A Nice Day" was relased, in 1999! |
| 2009-01-14: |
| EMI released a Roxette "gift pack" last October consisting of "The Pop Hits," "The Ballad Hits" and the "Ballad & Pop Hits" DVD. Low priced and in a nice little box. |
| 2008-12-01: |
| Marie is currently touring with the Christmas show "Stjärnklart" while Per just finished and released his new solo album "Party Crasher." |
| 2008-08-18: |
| Per Gessle and Mats MP Persson will travel to London October 7 to receive yet another "Million-Air" award for "Listen to Your Heart.""Listen to Your Heart" has been played over 4.000.000 times on US radio, same as "It Must Have Been Love" in 2005. According to BMI.com, based on an average length of three minutes, one million airplays is the equivalent of 50,000 hours or 5.7 years of continuous airplay.Top million-air songs are for instance The Police "Every Breath You Take" and The Beatles, "Yesterday" with both over 8.000.000 plays. Per Gessle is obviously very pleased with this and comments "Yay!" Comments |
| 2008-08-11: |
| Roxette's US #2 single from 1989, "Dangerous," has entered the Australian download chart at #30. "The Oz people are famous for their exquisite taste. Marie and myself are very happy indeed" comments Per. Comments |
| 2008-05-24: |
| Marie Fredriksson turns 50 May 30, join Roxette.se in celebrating this occasion! |
| 2007-06-02: |
| There is presently no news about Roxette, but please visit Roxette.se's sister sites. Also, don't miss the Swedish site for the new Per Gessle album www.enhandigman.se |
| 2007-03-06: |
| "One Wish" is holding its position as #2 on gay TV channel LOGO's the Click List. The video has been #2 since mid February. |
| 2007-02-28: |
| A reminder to you fans out there: Don't miss that the Rotary club of Helsingborg Landborgen has received a generous gift consisting of the following Gyllene Tider and Roxette album collections: Gyllene Tider Moderna Tider Puls The Heartland Café Återtåget Konstpaus Finn 5 fel! GT25 GT Live. Pearls of Passion Look Sharp! Joyride Tourism Crash! Boom! Bang! Have a Nice Day Room Service Roxette Hits! The Rox Box All records have been signed by Per, and in Roxette's case, also by Marie. These two collections will be auctioned off by Helsingborgs auktionsverk March 11, 2007 on behalf of Rotary's doctors bank. The doctors bank ships out Nordic doctors and dentists for one to two months' unpaid work in Africa - so far more than 160 people! The organization is totally non-profit and the money needed is raised by sponsorships and different kinds of fund-raisers, this being one of them. Bids can be made via telephone or the Internet. Happy bidding! |
| 2007-02-19: |
| According to EMI Roxette's "Hits!" has now passed gold status in Sweden, which means 30,000 copies delivered. Congrats to another award! |
| 2007-02-16: |
| Roxette's latest greatest hits collection "Hits!" gets raving reviews in US magazin "Blender" where Barry Walters gives the album four stars out of five! Also, the video to "One Wish" is #2 on LOGO's video chart The Click List. The Click List is LOGO's weekly online-voted countdown of the top ten videos as voted by the LOGO audience at LOGOonline.com. NewNowNext is LOGO's weekly video show spotlighting brand-new videos by artists of interest to the LOGO community, as well as videos by emerging artists, gay and lesbian artists and videos that react with the audience. NewNowNext premieres a new episode each Sunday at midnight. |
| 2007-02-02: |
| Per's company Elevator Entertainment is about to release its first non-Gessle album. It's the most talented and lovely ms Helena Josefesson whose first solo-album "Dynamo" will be released through EMI February 28th. Check out her myspace-site! |
| 2007-01-18: |
| Hi y'all! Per is in the US doing promotion for the new release of "Hits!." While he's there we'd like to give you a few goodies to suck on; Roxette's new single "Reveal" will be released on Valentine's day, IE February 14. It's still not clear where it will be released, but here are a couple of snippets: The Attic Remake and Kleerup's remix. Enjoy! |
| 2007-01-12: |
| The team, and fans, wish Per a happy birthday! |
| 2007-01-02: |
| Roxette.se is proud to present the winners of the RoxMas contest: Mikhail Bunkin, Moscow, Russia Stefan Schönhacker, Vienna, Austria Sara Eriksson, Örebro, Sweden Raquel Burgarolas, Barcelona, Spain Patrycja Venås, Sem, Norway Chris Oriet, Regina, Canada Jonas Hägg, Umeå, Sweden Benjamin Knoer, Munich, Germany Peter Lindgren, Färila, Sweden Gabor Farkas, Komlo, Hungary Congratulations to you all! The prizes; a "One Wish" single, a signed (by Per) 7" single, a Per Gessle bonafide guitar pick, a Roxette poster and a virtually priceless Chinese Roxette pin, will be sent out via EMI Sweden. The correct answers are: 1 Who is co-authoring the forthcoming book about Per Gessle and his life? A: Larz Lundström, B: Sven Lindström, C: Anders Nunstedt Sven is writing this book about Per. 2 Name two songs on "Tourism" that have been on the same single. Joyride/Come Back (Before You Leave) or The Look/Silver Blue or Queen of Rain/It Must Have Been Love or Fingertips/The Heart Shaped Sea. There are multiple answers to this one, we only accept commercial singles as correct. 3 How many records has Roxette sold, worldwide? A: 45 million, B: 75 million, C: 95 million 75 million is the closest correct answer, remember, it's records, not albums... 4 Which one of these is one of Per's pseudonyms? A: Joe Williams, B: Notorious BIG, C: Rip Offenbach Per wrote the song "Dansa pop pop" for Rita & the Ripoff using this pen-name. 5 Where did Roxette borrow the name "Look Sharp!" from? A: A TV show, B: A razor blade ad, C: Joe Jackson Good old Joe Jackson has an album named "Look Sharp." |
| 2007-01-01: |
| The RoxMas contest is now closed. Thank you all 969 people for participating! |
| 2006-12-26: |
| The Rotary club of Helsingborg Landborgen has received a generous gift consisting of the following Gyllene Tider and Roxette album collections: Gyllene Tider Moderna Tider Puls The Heartland Café Återtåget Konstpaus Finn 5 fel! GT25 GT Live. Pearls of Passion Look Sharp! Joyride Tourism Crash! Boom! Bang! Have a Nice Day Room Service Roxette Hits! The Rox Box All records have been signed by Per, and in Roxette's case, also by Marie. These two collections will be auctioned off by Helsingborgs auktionsverk March 11, 2007 on behalf of Rotary's doctors bank. The doctors bank ships out Nordic doctors and dentists for one to two months' unpaid work in Africa - so far more than 160 people! The organization is totally non-profit and the money needed is raised by sponsorships and different kinds of fund-raisers, this being one of them. Bids can be made via telephone or the Internet. Happy bidding! |
| 2006-12-24: |
| Merry Christmas everybody... here's your xmas present: IT HURTS Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by Jimmy Fun Music Recorded at Tits & Ass, August 1995 Acoustic guitars & keyboards: PG Piano: MP Vox: PG |
| 2006-12-18: |
| STARS Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by HipHappy Recorded at Tits & Ass, July 9 1998 Programming: MP & PG Guitars: MP Vox: PG Backing vox: Milla |
| 2006-12-17: |
| Awright! 2006 turned out to be a good year! Not only for the roses but also for this little band from the outskirts of Europe. We managed to deliver a good-looking RoxBox as well as 2 new songs (btw, you have to check out the new remixes of Reveal... very cool if you ask us...) and a few TV-shows to go with that. 2007? Well, who knows. Marie is talking about more art exhibitions and more exciting solo stuff, Per isn’t talking at all at the moment (he wants to go xmas shopping, the taxi’s waiting...) but knowing him some raunchy urban x-rated hip-hop music isn’t far away! We’d like to take this opportunity to wish y’all a white xmas and a sunny new year. And as always, thanks for your heartwarming uncontrollable support and affection. Luv, Marie & Per PS. Don't forget the RoxMas contest, scroll down for more info! |
| 2006-12-13: |
| TV4 will broadcast a new documentary about Roxette on December 29, with a re-run December 31. |
| 2006-12-11: |
| DANGEROUS Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by Jimmy Fun Music Recorded at Tits & Ass, Feb 1987 Guitars & vox: PG |
| 2006-12-08: |
| Roxette is among the finalists in Aftonbladet's Rockbjörnen, best to head over there and vote! |
| 2006-12-06: |
| Ho ho ho! Welcome to The RoxMas Contest! Yes as a thank you to all our fans Roxette and roxette.se have arranged a contest! We have 10 (ten) mighty prize packages for you to win. The packages contain: a signed by Per 7" single, a One Wish single, a poster, a genuine Per Gessle guitar pick and a possibly a Chinese Roxette pin from the fabled concert in 1995 (if we can find the box...)! You just can't miss out on this. All you have to do is to answer these questions. You can only enter once. The contest ends Dec. 31. The winners will be notified via mail and here on the site. Good luck and Merry RoxMas! Per & Marie |
| 2006-12-04: |
| FOOL Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by HipHappy Recorded at Tits & Ass, Dec 27, 1999 Programming: MP & PG Vox: PG |
| 2006-11-27: |
| THE CENTRE OF THE HEART Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by HipHappy Recorded at Tits & Ass, Autumn 1997 Programming: MP & PG Guitars: MP & PG Vox: PG |
| 2006-11-24: |
| Don't forget to vote for your favorite artists (Roxette maybe?) in Aftonbladet's prestigious Rockbjörnen Awards. |
| 2006-11-20: |
| MY WORLD, MY LOVE, MY LIFE Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by HipHappy Recorded at Tits & Ass, Dec 28, 1999 Programming: MP & PG Vox: PG |
| 2006-11-13: |
| DANCE AWAY Words by Per Gessle Music by Marie Fredriksson & Per Gessle Published by Jimmy Fun Music & Shock the Music Recorded at Tits & Ass, Feb 9 1988 Programming: MP & PG Guitars: MP Vox: MF |
| 2006-11-06: |
| CRUSH ON YOU Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by HipHappy Recorded at Tits & Ass, July 30 1998 Programming: MP & PG Guitars: MP Vox: PG |
| 2006-11-04: |
| Roxette performs at Swedish TV-gameshow Bingolotto's 15th anniversary tonight on TV4. Roxette will play The Look and One Wish. The segments are pre-recorded. |
| 2006-11-03: |
| Websites back online after the hardware breakdown...the forum will be up this weekend! Thanks for your patience! |
| 2006-10-30: |
| ONE WISH Words & Music by Per Gessle Published by Jimmy Fun Music Recorded at Tits & Ass, May 20 2006 Guitars, tambourine & vox: PG |
| 2006-10-26: |
| You don't like Mondays??? Well, Roxette certainly do! Starting Monday October 30 (and continuing until Xmas) Roxette.se will give you the opportunity to listen to some extremely rare Roxette demos, straight from Señor Gessle's hidden vaults. Every Monday we will bring you a new special track, never before released. And yes, they're all in stereo and no, you can't download them, only listen to them. Enjoy! P&M |
| 2006-10-17: |
| Now you can vote for Roxette's best video ever at TV4.se. Six finalists have been chosen during the last six days. Now join in and vote for Roxette's Best Video Ever! |
| 2006-10-13: |
| One Wish charts! #2 in Sweden #5 in Finland #3 in Spain so far... |
| 2006-10-11: |
| Roxers! Go to TV4.se and vote for your favorite Roxette video. Three videos will be shown every day this week and the six finalists will be shown next Tuesday. |
| 2006-10-09: |
| There are no plans for a Roxette tour within a forseeable future. However, as a celebration of Roxette's 20th anniversary Swedish radio P3 will broadcast one of the last Roxette-concerts. The recording of this concert took place at Globen Arena in connection with the Room Service tour 2001 and P3 will broadcast the concert on October 20th at 21.03. |
| 2006-10-06: |
| "Listen to Your Heart," written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, and published by Jimmy Fun Music (all STIM), was named Song of the Year and received one of the organization's highest accolades, the Robert S. Musel Award. Recorded by Belgium-based duo D.H.T., the song was originally a No. 1 hit for Roxette in 1989 and received the BMI Dance Award at last years ceremony. As previously stated Roxette will pre-record a performance for the Bravo gala in Hamburg on the 21st of October. However, they will also make a live appearance on stage at the actual event on the 21st. |
| 2006-09-26: |
| Roxette will perform at the Swedish gala Världens barn on SVT Oct. 14. |
| 2006-09-26: |
| Please note! Roxette will not perform LIVE at the BRAVO-gala Oct. 21, their performance will be pre-recorded and will be aired on German TV-channel Pro7. So don't go out and buy tickets just to see Roxette, stay at home and watch them on the telly! |
| 2006-09-22: |
| The lyrics of One Wish and Reveal have been added to the lyrics section. |
| 2006-09-20: |
| Time to preorder the new Roxette stuff... One Wish Preorder here A Collection Of Roxette Hits Preorder here A Collection of Roxette Hits - Deluxe Edition (CD+DVD) Preorder here The RoxBox Preorder here |
| 2006-08-25: |
| Roxette celebrates the 20th Anniversary with the new single "One Wish" and with the album "Roxette Hits." In the spring of 1986 Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson decided to record a single together, "Neverending Love." They called themselves Roxette and that was the beginning of a fantastic career with over 46 million albums and 25 million singles sold. A career that now reaches its 20th anniversary - and this has to be celebrated! On October 18 "Roxette Hits" will be released. The album features their greatest hits and two new songs, which were recorded in Summer 2006. The first of them, "One Wish," which has been chosen as the first single, will start its airplay on September 20 and will be released on October 4. The successful collaboration between Jonas Åkerlund and Roxette goes on and in the next days Jonas will start the shooting of the video for "One Wish." Roxette's 20th Anniversary is also celebrated with the release of "The RoxBox '86-'06," a real goodie for all fans who thought "they had everything." "It was great to work with Marie again! We had three fantastic days down in Skåne and we are very happy with the result. Everything was very easy, Clarence played the keyboards, Marie prepared some coffee and Christoffer and I played table hockey. I won," comments Per. |