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Music video
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A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to more than just a song. Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys or marketing campaigns for food, although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by terms including illustrated song, filmed insert, promotional film, promotional clip, promotional video, song video. Music videos use a range of styles of contemporary videomaking techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries. Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation, music, combining these styles and techniques has become more popular because of the variation it presents to the audience. Many music videos interpret images and scenes from the songs lyrics, other music videos may be without a set concept, being merely a filmed version of the songs live performance. Product placement is a technique in music videos, exemplified by the appearance of the Beats Pill in numerous hip hop videos. In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B, marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song The Little Lost Child. Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a form of entertainment known as the illustrated song. In 1926, with the arrival of many musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts featured many bands, vocalists and dancers, early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and especially Fantasia, the Warner Brothers cartoons, even today billed as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming Warner Brothers musical films. Live action musical shorts, featuring such performers as Cab Calloway, were also distributed to theaters. Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a short film called St. Louis Blues featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song. Numerous other musicians appeared in short musical subjects during this period, soundies, produced and released from 1940 to 1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos
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Roxette
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Roxette is a Swedish pop rock duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. Formed in 1986, the duo became an act in the late 1980s. Their third album Joyride, which was released in 1991, became just as successful as its predecessor. 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. Other hits include Dangerous, Fading Like a Flower, Dressed for Success, 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. After the release of Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus, a greatest hits record, the duo took a hiatus from the mid-1990s before returning with the albums Have a Nice Day and Room Service. They continued to chart in other territories, mainly in Europe and Latin America, in 2002, the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In 2011, they released Charm School, their first studio album in ten years and this was followed by Travelling a year later. Their songs It Must Have Been Love and Listen to Your Heart continue to receive radio airplay. Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson first met in Halmstad, Sweden, Gessle performed in Gyllene Tider, one of Swedens most popular bands at the time, and Fredriksson in the less successful Strul and MaMas Barn before both embarked on solo careers. In 1981, Fredriksson sang for the first time with Gyllene Tider on stage and was featured as a background vocalist for a Swedish-language album the band released in 1982. Gessle also worked with ex-ABBA singer Frida, for a song that appeared on her 1982 album Somethings Going On, while working on her first solo album, Het vind, Fredriksson performed more background vocals for Gyllene Tiders only album in English, The Heartland Café. The 11-track album was released in February 1984 and sold 45,000 copies in Sweden, According to Gessle, the groups first English-language release was in response to interest expressed by EMIs American label Capitol Records. Capitol took six of the tracks and released an extended play record in the US with a title, Heartland. Gessle and the members of Gyllene Tider chose the title of a 1975 Dr. Feelgood song. The newly named Roxette issued one near-invisible release in the US, Teaser Japanese, whose video reached MTVs studio and it, and subsequent singles, fared better in Sweden, and Gyllene Tider briefly toured the country to support the album. However, the album died soon enough and the international career died before it even started and we decided to put Gyllene Tider to rest. Gessle then turned solo work, recording his second Swedish-language solo album, Scener, released in 1985, while Fredriksson recorded her second solo album, Den sjunde vågen
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EMI
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EMI was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 and was based in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth-largest business group and its EMI Records Ltd. group of record labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records and Capitol Records. EMI also had a publishing arm, EMI Music Publishing—also based in London with offices globally. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, other members of the Sony consortium include the Estate of Michael Jackson, The Blackstone Group, and Abu Dhabi–owned investment fund Mubadala Development Company. The new vertically integrated company produced sound recordings as well as recording, the companys gramophone manufacturing led to forty years of success with larger-scale electronics and electrical engineering. He was killed in 1942 whilst conducting flight trials on an experimental H2S radar set, post-war, the company resumed its involvement in making broadcasting equipment, notably providing the BBCs second television transmitter at Sutton Coldfield. It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies as well as for the BBC, the commercial television ITV companies also used them alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi. Exports of this piece of equipment were low, however, the company was also for many years an internationally respected manufacturer of photomultipliers. This part of the business was transferred to Thorn as part of Thorn-EMI, in 1958 the EMIDEC1100, the UKs first commercially available all-transistor computer, was developed at Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield, an electrical engineer at EMI. In 1973 EMI was awarded a prestigious Queens Award for Technological Innovation for what was called the EMI scanner. After brief, but brilliant, success in the imaging field, EMIs manufacturing activities were sold off to other companies. Subsequently, development and manufacturing activities were sold off to companies and work moved to other towns such as Crawley. Emihus Electronics, based in Glenrothes, Scotland, was owned 51% by Hughes Aircraft, of California, US and it manufactured integrated circuits electrolytic capacitors and, for a short period in the mid-1970s, hand-held calculators under the Gemini name. Early in its life, the Gramophone Company established subsidiary operations in a number of countries in the British Commonwealth, including India, Australia. Over 150,000 78-rpm recordings from around the world are held in EMIs temperature-controlled archive in Hayes, in 1931, the year the company was formed, it opened the legendary recording studios at Abbey Road, London. During the 1930s and 1940s, its roster of artists included Arturo Toscanini, Sir Edward Elgar, during this time EMI appointed its first A&R managers. These included George Martin, who brought the Beatles into the EMI fold. When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1931, at this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board
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Film director
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A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a films artistic and dramatic aspects, the director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film, the film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions, there are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors, other film directors have attended a film school. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors dialogue, while others control every aspect. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners, some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films. Film directors create a vision through which a film eventually becomes realized/noticed. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of production, as well as directing the shooting timetable. This entails organizing the crew in such a way as to achieve their vision of the film. This requires skills of leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in the stressful. Moreover, it is necessary to have an eye to frame shots and to give precise feedback to cast and crew, thus. Thus the director ensures that all involved in the film production are working towards an identical vision for the completed film. The set of varying challenges he or she has to tackle has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with egos. It adds to the pressure that the success of a film can influence when, omnipresent are the boundaries of the films budget. Additionally, the director may also have to ensure an intended age rating, thus, the position of film director is widely considered to be a highly stressful and demanding one. It has been said that 20-hour days are not unusual, under European Union law, the film director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film, largely as a result of the influence of auteur theory. Auteur theory is a film criticism concept that holds that a directors film reflects the directors personal creative vision
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All Videos Ever Made & More!
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All Videos Ever Made & More - The Complete Collection 1987-2001 is a DVD by the Swedish pop duo Roxette, released on November 19,2001. It features all the videos the duo recorded from 1987 to 2001. Queen of Rain Fingertips 93 Almost Unreal Sleeping in My Car Crash
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc
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The Ballad Hits
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The Ballad Hits is part one of two best of albums by Roxette, released on 4 November 2002. The other is The Pop Hits, released in March 2003, the tracks A Thing About You and Breathe were recorded especially for this album. Only the first one was released as a single, the limited edition of the CD included an EP featuring four tracks, The Weight of the World, It Hurts, See Me and Every Day. The European version is copy protected, the album proved to be a reasonable success in Europe, reaching the top 10 in many countries and reaching #11 and achieving Silver status in the UK. A Thing About You Previously unreleased It Must Have Been Love from Pretty Woman Listen to Your Heart from Look Sharp, fading Like a Flower from Joyride Spending My Time from Joyride Queen of Rain from Tourism Almost Unreal from Super Mario Bros Crash. You Dont Understand Me from Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
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The Pop Hits
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The Pop Hits is one of two best of albums by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released on 24 March 2003. The other is The Ballad Hits, released in October 2002, opportunity Nox, Little Miss Sorrow, Makin Love To You and Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla were newly recorded for this album. Better Off on Her Own was a B-side of the 1999 single Stars, original version of Stupid appeared earlier on Per Gessles solo album The World According to Gessle. Opportunity Nox was released as a single, and in March 2003 the song became the first Roxette song to reach Svensktoppen, opportunity Nox Previously unreleased The Look from Look Sharp. Dressed for Success from Look Sharp, Joyride from Joyride The Big L from Joyride Church of Your Heart from Joyride How Do You Do. from Tourism Sleeping in My Car from Crash. June Afternoon from Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
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Per Gessle
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Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider. With Fredrikssons illness in 2002, he went back to recording albums, reformed Gyllene Tider in 2004 and became a successful artist in his native Sweden. Per Gessle was a member of Gyllene Tider, in 1976. They quickly became a group in Sweden, but after their fourth album, The Heartland Café, sold poorly compared to their previous albums. We decided to put Gyllene Tider to rest, in 1982, Gessle released his first solo album, Per Gessle and after Gyllene Tider split-up his second album, Scener, quickly appeared in 1985. Gessle and Marie Fredriksson had been friends for a few years before came together as Roxette in 1986. After the success of their first hit Neverending Love, which was written by Gessle, Roxette went on to achieve four U. S. #1s and two #2s, with their albums Look Sharp. and Joyride attaining platinum status in a number of countries. After Roxettes early nineties success, Per released a compilation album in 1992, På väg. Bang. and subsequent world tour, Roxette took a break, in 1996, after a reunion and subsequent tour of Gyllene Tider, Gessle recorded his first English solo album, using Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as backing musicians. Christoffer Lundquist from Brainpool would also come to collaborate with Per on later releases, the World According to Gessle, released in 1997, produced three singles, Do You Wanna Be My Baby. Kix and I Want You to Know, the videos to all three songs were directed by Jonas Åkerlund. The World According to Gessle was re-released in 2008, with bonus material. In 1997 Hjärtats trakt – en samling was released as a best-of album, after Roxette released Have a Nice Day and Room Service to moderate success, Per continued with his solo work. The subsequent album Mazarin, was successful in Sweden, going five times platinum in 2004. His first album involving singer Helena Josefsson brought Gessle numerous awards, four Grammis awards, Best Artist, Best Male Pop Performer, Best Composer and Best Song. He also won three Rockbjörnen awards, Best Swedish Male Artist, Best Swedish Album and Best Swedish Song —, the song Här kommer alla känslorna, is Gessles most successful release in Sweden, spending two months at No. Also in 2004, saw Gessle and Gyllene Tider reunited for a 25th-anniversary celebration that included the bands first album in 20 years, Finn 5 fel. and another very successful tour in Sweden
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Marie Fredriksson
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In 2002, after fainting at home, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. During her rehabilitation she continued to make music, resulting in the album The Change and she later reunited with Gessle to record more Roxette albums, embarked on worldwide tour and continued to record as a solo artist in her native Sweden. Marie Fredriksson, who was born in Össjö, was the youngest of five children, the family later moved to the small Swedish town of Östra Ljungby. Being poor, both parents were forced to work, often leaving the children on their own, together with her siblings or neighbourhood children, Fredriksson began to play music and sing. She was often asked by her mother to perform in front of friends who were impressed by her Olivia Newton-John-like singing voice, Maries interest grew stronger in her teens as she discovered artists such as Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, and Deep Purple. At 17, Fredriksson enrolled in a college and performed in local theatre. However, she found it boring, instead longing for the thrill of an audience. As she phrased it, I wanted to perform and she became involved in theatre, and after moving to the town of Halmstad, she found herself involved in the local music scene. Joining her boyfriend Stefans band Strul, they played local gigs, after that group split, Marie and a new boyfriend, Martin Sternhuvsvud, performed as MaMas Barn. Per Gessle, the lead singer of the famous Swedish group Gyllene Tider, shared a rehearsal studio with Fredriksson. Lindbom was suitably impressed with Fredrikssons voice and offered her a contract, Lasse Lindbom asked Fredriksson to record a duet with him, Så nära nu, which lead to her joining his group The Lasse Lindbom Band. Gessle started to encourage her to start a career, but she was too nervous. Fredriksson finally accepted, and she recorded her first solo album, Het vind, Ännu doftar kärlek was the first single. Lindbom, Fredriksson, Per Gessle and Mats MP Persson started a new band called Spännande Ostar and that same year, Fredriksson and Lindbom went to the Canary Islands to write songs for Maries second solo album. They returned to Sweden for the recording, the album was released in 1986, under the name Den sjunde vågen. Den bästa dagen and Silver i din hand were released as singles, Gessle and Fredriksson had talked about working together for many years. Fredrikssons career was soaring in Sweden, but Gessle was a former member whose solo career was not doing as well. Friends and people in the industry were skeptical towards the idea of Marie collaborating with Gessle and his idea was to form a duo, singing in English, and try to have some success in Europe
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A Thing About You
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A Thing About You, written by Per Gessle, is the only single from Swedish pop duo Roxettes 2002 compilation album The Ballad Hits. The song featured on BBC Radio 2s playlist and this song was a medium-sized hit in Europe. It reached the top 20 in Sweden, and the top 40 in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, a Thing About You The Weight of the World A Thing About You Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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It Must Have Been Love
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It Must Have Been Love is a song written by Per Gessle and performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The ballad became the third number one hit in the United States. Four different versions of the song have been officially released, world Tour in 1991, the band recorded a country music version of the track in Los Angeles, which was included on their 1992 album Tourism. A Spanish-language version of the Pretty Woman recording was released on their 1996 compilation Baladas en español, finally, an orchestral live performance from the bands 2009 concert at Night of the Proms was included on their 2012 studio album, Travelling. The song was first released as It Must Have Been Love in December 1987 and it was composed after EMI Germany asked the duo to come up with an intelligent Christmas single. It became a top five hit in Sweden, but was not released internationally and this version of the song was never included on any Roxette studio album until the 1997 re-release of their debut Pearls of Passion. A performance from a Swedish TV chart show in 1987 acted as the songs first music video and it features Fredriksson and Gessle sitting on a couch on a stage, lip-syncing to the song. All songs written and composed by Per Gessle, except where noted,7 single It Must Have Been Love –4,48 Turn to Me –2,58 During a run of increasingly successful singles from the duos 1988 album Look Sharp. The film was released in March 1990 and went on to more than US$460 million at the worldwide box office. The corresponding soundtrack album was also a success, which was certified triple-platinum in the US. The soundtrack went on to more than nine million copies worldwide. It was not the first single released from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, the song was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 copies in the US. At the end of the year, Billboard listed it as the second most successful single of 1990, the single peaked at number three in the UK—their highest peaking single there. It stayed on the UK Singles Chart for 14 weeks, and was certified silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 200,000 copies, the song was re-released in the UK and Ireland in September 1993, peaking at number ten in both countries. It became Roxettes second of three number one singles in Australia, spending two weeks at the top spot in July 1990, the song was a massive hit in Norway, where it spent twelve weeks at number one. In Switzerland, the song spent three weeks at number one, and a further five weeks at number two—being held off the top spot in those weeks by Matthias Reims Verdammt. It also reached number one in Canada, Poland and Spain, and the top five in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Germany, in 2005, Gessle received an award from BMI after the songs four millionth radio play. In 2014, he received an award from the same organization after its five millionth radio play
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Listen to Your Heart (Roxette song)
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Listen to Your Heart is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The song was released in September 1988 in Sweden as the second single from their second studio album. It went on to one of the most successful singles of 1989. The song was written by Per Gessle and former Gyllene Tider guitarist Mats M. P. Persson. In 2005, Belgian trance act DHT released a version of the song, which became a top 10 hit in numerous territories, including France, the Netherlands, the UK. According to Gessle, the song was conceived as, The Big Bad Ballad and this is us trying to recreate that overblown American FM-rock sound to the point where it almost becomes absurd. We really wanted to see how far we could take it, —Per Gessle, Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus. Roxette recorded the video for Listen to Your Heart in the Borgholm Castle ruin on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland, in 2008, the song had reached four million American radio plays. Dance cover is included in the total of plays, the song has been voted The Best Roxette Song ever by readers of fan-site The Daily Roxette. In 2014, the song had reached five million American radio plays, Listen to Your Heart has been performed on all of Roxettes concert tours. In 1988 and in 1991, on the Look Sharp Tour and the Join the Joyride Tour respectively, in its original, power ballad style, and on the following tours in an acoustic, unplugged form. However, since their return to touring in 2010 after a long hiatus due to Fredrikssons illness they opt to perform the song with full band again. All music by Per Gessle, except Listen to Your Heart by Gessle and Mats Persson, Half a Woman, Half a Shadow by Marie Fredriksson, originally released in Belgium in 2003, the various mixes of the song reached U. S. clubs in late 2004. The song was released in the U. S. in November 2004, by June 2005, the song reached number one on Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart and the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number eight in August. The same year, the group released the Edmées unplugged vocal edit, an acoustic ballad version of the song. Habla El Corazón, a Spanish version of the song, was released in March 2007 by Mexican artist Yuridia and this version peaked at #44 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. In 2009, Scottish power metal band Ascension recorded a cover, in 2009, Filipino singer Sarah Geronimo recorded a cover version of the song for her album Music and Me. This song is covered by Schnuffel Bunnys counterpart Snuggelina
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Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
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Fading Like a Flower is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette, released as the second single from their third studio album, Joyride. According to Ultimate Guitar, the song is written in time with a moderately fast tempo of 105 beats per minute. It is a rock ballad in the key of F which modulates a step up to G halfway through the song. The track follows a chord sequence of Am–Em–Am–C–G–Am–Em–D in each verse. The first two lines of each chorus have a progression of C–F–Am–G–C–F–G–C, with the half of the chorus amending the sequence to a shortened C–F–Am–G–F–G. The bridge consists of three repetitions of Am–G–C–D followed by a progression of E–E7–Am–C–G–Am, Roxette later recorded a Spanish version of the song for their 1996 compilation album Baladas en español. The music video was mostly in the Stockholm suburb of Gamla stan. Although not as successful as previous single Joyride, the song was a top ten hit in numerous countries and it remains the duos highest-peaking single ever on the Irish Singles Chart, peaking at number four. Listen to Your Heart, It Must Have Been Love and Almost Unreal all peaked at number five, on the UK Singles Chart, the song peaked at number twelve. It charted highest in North America, peaking at two in Canada and on the US Billboard Hot 100—where it was held off the top spot in both countries by Bryan Adams I Do It for You. All songs written and composed by Per Gessle, credited as Dancing DJs vs Roxette, the remix charted in numerous territories, including Finland, Ireland, Sweden and the UK. All songs written by Per Gessle, a eurodance cover of the song was recorded by Mysterio. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Spending My Time
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Spending My Time is a song by Swedish duo Roxette, released as the fourth single from their third studio album, Joyride. It was written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, and produced by Clarence Öfwerman, a remix was created by MC King Carli and Dr Renault at EMI Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 1991, and was included on the single. A Spanish version of the song, titled Un día sin ti, was released in 1996 as the single from the duos Spanish-language compilation album Baladas en español. Gessle also appears playing the guitar. The song was not as successful as the duos preceding singles. It peaked at number thirty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, in the liner notes of their 1995 greatest hits compilation Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus. Per Gessle said he believed that Spending My Time was going to be our biggest hit ever, at the end of 1991, EMI merged with other record companies to form EMI Records Group North America. The merger resulted in the new company firing over a hundred members of staff, the song also peaked at number nine in Canada. All songs written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, except The Sweet Hello and it consisted of twelve of their down-tempo singles and album tracks, which were translated by Spanish songwriter Luis Gomez-Escolar. This album was released in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking territories. A translated version of Spending My Time, titled Un día sin ti, was released in November 1996 as the lead single. A new music video was filmed for this version of the song and it was created by Jonas Åkerlund, who would go on to direct a total of twelve music videos for the duo. It features close-up shots of Marie singing and Per playing guitar, interspersed with clips of a woman descending into alcoholism, music by Per Gessle and Mats Persson. Spanish lyrics by Luis G. Escolar, CD single Un día sin ti –4,39 Directamente a ti –4,44 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Queen of Rain
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Queen of Rain is a pop ballad by Swedish duo Roxette. It was released as the single from their fourth studio album Tourism on 28 October 1992. The song became a top twenty hit in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, the song was recorded in July 1990 at EMI Studios in Stockholm during sessions for their 1991 album Joyride. It was originally set to appear as that albums final track, Roxette later recorded a Spanish version of the track, titled Una reina va detrás de un rey, for their 1996 compilation album Baladas en español. Prior to the release of Queen of Rain, one of the singles b-side, the song would later be included as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of their debut album, Pearls of Passion
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Almost Unreal
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The song became a top twenty hit in numerous territories, including Scandinavia, Ireland and the UK. It would also be the final top ten hit in both of the latter countries—excluding a re-release of It Must Have Been Love two months later. The song proved to be unsuccessful in North America, peaking at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100, Roxette themselves were later dismissive of both the song and the associated movie. It appeared as a track on the Japanese edition of their next studio album. Almost Unreal was written by Per Gessle after he was contacted by Walt Disney Pictures about composing the song to Bette Midlers upcoming film Hocus Pocus. Almost Unreal was then transferred to another Disney project, the live action adaption of the Nintendo game series Super Mario Bros. Although hesitant about the project, the duo decided to allow the company to use the song in the film, as they were both fans of Bob Hopkins and Dennis Hopper. The lyrics of the song were modified to omit most references to Hocus Pocus, although the title would still remain in the songs chorus, with the lyric. Marie Fredrikssons vocals were recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm in March 1993, according to Ultimate Guitar, Almost Unreal is a mid-tempo pop rock song composed in the key of E major, and is written in common time with a moderate tempo of 92 beats per minute. The intro is composed of two repetitions of an E–B–Asus2 sequence, followed by a further two lines composed of C♯m–B–Asus2, each verse is composed of variations of a B–G♯m7–E–C♯m–E–A–G♯sus4–G♯ sequence, while the chorus is composed of two repetitions of E–B–A, followed by a C♯m–B–A–F♯ sequence. Roxette were later dismissive of both the song and the film, calling the latter a flop and ridiculous, in the liner notes of the duos first greatest hits compilation, Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus. Fredriksson referred to the track as not one of our most inspired moments, while Gessle said, I still like the song, but if you wanted to make a parody of Roxette, it would probably sound something like this. Mike Schiller from PopMatters called the song awful, and wrote. not only does it sound like corporate pandering, all music and lyrics by Per Gessle
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Crash! Boom! Bang! (song)
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Bang. is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 9 May 1994 as the second single from their fifth studio album, Crash. It became a hit in several European countries, peaking in the top twenty in Austria, Belgium, Finland. The song spent over five months on the German Singles Chart, the songs music video was directed by Irish filmmaker Michael Geoghegan, who would go on to direct a total of four music videos for the duo. It was inspired by works of Polish director Zbigniew Rybczyński, all songs written by Per Gessle. –4,25 Joyride –5,35 CD single Crash, –4,25 Joyride –5,35 Run to You –3,45 UK CD1 Crash. –5,02 Joyride –3,59 The Look –3,56 UK CD2 Crash. –4,25 Joyride –5,35 Run to You –3,45 It Must Have Been Love –4,18 Credits adapted from the notes of Dont Bore Us
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Vulnerable (song)
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Vulnerable is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released as the fifth and final single from their fifth studio album Crash. Bang. while simultaneously acting as the single from the duos 1995 compilation album Rarities. The Sweet Hello, the Sad Goodbye had previously released as the B-side on the duos 1991 single Spending My Time. Earlier that year, in April, it had released as the lead single from Thomas Anders second solo album. The song was written by Per Gessle in December 1990, although it would not be recorded by the band until April 1993 at Mayfair Studios in London, in the liner notes of their 1995 greatest hits compilation Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus. According to Ultimate Guitar, the track is a pop ballad. The verse is composed of two repetitions of an E–G♯m–A–F♯m–B sequence, with the final note amended to a C♯ on the second repetition, the chorus consists of three repetitions of a F♯–F♯maj7–B–C♯ sequence, followed by one shortened bar of F♯–C♯–F♯. Vulnerable became the second-biggest hit from the parent album in the native country, peaking at number twelve. Although lead single Sleeping in My Car debuted at one in Sweden, the title track stalled at number seventeen. The albums fourth single, Run to You, became the duos first single since 1988s I Call Your Name to not enter the Swedish top fifty, the song spent almost three months on the German Singles Chart, eventually peaking at number 71 on its sixth week. In the UK, Vulnerable peaked at number 44, ending a run of seventeen consecutive top forty singles on the UK Singles Chart and it performed marginally better in Scotland, peaking at number 41. All songs written by Per Gessle
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Wish I Could Fly
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Wish I Could Fly is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. Released in February 1999, it was the first single from their studio album Have a Nice Day. In the UK, the peaked at #11, which was Roxettes highest position for a single since their 1993 hit Almost Unreal. The single also made the Top 10 in Sweden and Finland, Top 20 in Austria, Switzerland and Norway, Top 30 in Germany and the Top 40 in the Netherlands. While the album Have a Nice Day wasnt released in the U. S. Roxette signed a deal with Edel Music. The song was also a radio hit, becoming the most played song in Europe in 1999. A Spanish-language version of the song, Quisiera Volar, was included on the South American release of the album
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Anyone (song)
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Anyone is the second single from Swedish duo Roxettes Have a Nice Day album. It was released in May 1999, Anyone is like its predecessor Wish I could fly a ballad, with instruments including piano, saxophone and strings. Anyone was initially planned to be the first single from Have A Nice Day, but the group feared it would sound too Roxette-ish for a comeback single, after the success of Wish I Could Fly, fans believed the next single release would be Stars or Crush On You. But in the end, it was Anyone that was picked as the second single, the B-sides are the demo of Anyone, Cooper, and You Dont Understand Me. The maxi-single includes the video of Wish I Could Fly, in Japan, a double A-side with Pay The Price was released, although there is no video for this song. Anyone is often regarded as a flop, because in Europe it never achieved as much success as its predecessor and it charted only in The Netherlands at #73, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, where it was a modest success, spending two weeks in the Top 30. EMI UK refused to release Anyone because of the chart results of the single in Europe. However, in South America, Anyone gained far more attention, the video of Anyone, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, was banned by some TV stations because of a scene in which Marie Fredriksson attempts suicide by drowning herself in the sea. The video was recorded in Portugal in the peninsula of Tróia, the clip was only broadcast after 10pm in many countries, because some believed it encouraged young people to commit suicide. Anyone Released, 1999-05-10 // Roxette Recordings /8868920 Anyone Anyone Cooper You Dont Understand Me Wish I Could Fly Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Salvation (Roxette song)
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Salvation, written by Per Gessle, is the fourth single from the Have a Nice Day album by the Swedish duo Roxette. The single was released in November 1999, Salvation is a ballad with instruments like acoustic guitars, piano, choir and drum machine. It was released around Christmas time, because it has a Christmas sound, the B-sides of Salvation single are See Me and Crazy About You, both outtakes from Crash. The single includes also the video of Stars, Salvation was the third single from Have A Nice Day to enter the Finnish Top 20. In Germany and Sweden, on the hand, it charted at quite low positions. Salvation also didnt get as much airplay as the previous singles, the Spanish version Lo Siento got some minor airplay in Spanish-speaking countries. The video for Salvation was directed by Dutch director Anton Corbijn, the shooting took place in Naples and Amalfi in October 1999. Released, 1999-11-22 // Roxette Recordings /8879200 Salvation See Me Crazy About You Stars Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Anton Corbijn
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion. Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands and his father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard, took up the same position in Hoogland and Groningen, moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer, was a nurse and was raised in a parsons family, photographer and director Maarten Corbijn is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes van Willenswaard was an art teacher at Christian schools in Hilversum, Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, from the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express, a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man, in the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters and his first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsies second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R. E. M. The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke, Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and his first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single Pride. In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijns music video output as part of the Directors Label series, in 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007, the film is based on Deborah Curtis book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles. 2010 Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, on 26 October 2011 Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014, the John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he start filming his next project Life about James Dean, author William Gibson refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel Spook Country
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Opportunity Nox
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Opportunity Nox is the only single from Swedish pop duo Roxettes 2003 compilation album The Pop Hits. In March 2003, Opportunity Nox became the first Roxette song to reach Svensktoppen, due to Marie Fredriksson having cancer at the time, the song had no promotion and featured very little of her vocals. Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen both gave the song 4 stars and called it their best song since Dangerous and Joyride respectively, despite the lack of promotion, this song did peak at #11 in Sweden, and was a minor hit in Germany and Switzerland. The video for the song is animated by Animation Director Murray John and this was mainly due to Fredrikssons illness. Opportunity Nox Fading Like a Flower Breathe Opportunity Nox at MusicBrainz Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Look
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The Look is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. It was released in early 1989 as the single from their second studio album. It became an hit, and was one of the most successful singles of 1989. It topped the charts in 25 countries, and was the first of their four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, the duo released their second album Look Sharp. in October 1988. It was an commercial success in their home country, spending seven weeks at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart. The albums first two Swedish singles, Dressed for Success and Listen to Your Heart, both became top three there, while another song, Chances, was released in Germany, Italy. It quickly became popular, and the station began distributing the track to their radio operations. EMI America had previously rejected the duo as unsuitable for the American market, the Look had already entered the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 before the duo began official promotion. It would go on to peak at number one eight weeks later, according to Gessle, the lyrics of the first two verses were guide lyrics. Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer, the first two verses are guide lyrics, words just scribbled down to have something to sing. Couldnt come up with anything better, so we kept them, —Per Gessle All songs written and composed by Per Gessle. This version of the song does not appear on the album, in the 1990s, an adaptation of The Look was used in a television advertisement for Indias Lakmé Cosmetics featuring Aishwariya Rai. In 2009, the song was featured in a marketing campaign for Grand Theft Auto IV. It can also be heard on radio station Vice City FM. The track also appears as a track in the 2010 music rhythm game Rock Band 3. The song was mentioned in the Family Guy episode Baby Not on Board when Stewie announced his remorse for staying up all night listening to Persian radio and it served as the theme song for the TV Land reality TV competition Shes Got the Look. The song was covered by Filipina singer Sarah Geronimo, and it was used as a promotion for Jag when she became the new endorser of the clothing brand, the song was covered by Taiwanese artist Luantan Ascent. It was used as a song for the movie Second Chance and was also featured in its promotional teaser trailer
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Dressed for Success
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Dressed for Success is a song by the Swedish rock duo Roxette, released in mid-1988 as the first single from their second studio album, Look Sharp. The recording of the song was marked by a dispute between the members, but this apparently contributed to the strength of Maries performance. I was so mad when I did it, everything about that session went wrong, we argued about the arrangement, we changed the key, I was dead tired of the song when I went in to do a guide vocal. Did it in one blast and suddenly realized, hmm. this is it, —Marie Fredriksson, Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus. The music video for the song revolved around the duo performing together in nightclub ruins as several dancers. All songs written and composed by Per Gessle
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Dangerous (Roxette song)
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Dangerous is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. Written by Per Gessle, the song was released as the fifth, Gessle penned it just before Roxettes first tour in 1987. Released at the end of 1989, it was the third top 10 showing on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video was recorded in the ruins of Borgholm Castle and it was released as a double A-side in the UK with Listen to Your Heart. The version on the features a different introduction, omitting the instruments in favour of the duo singing the first line of the chorus. The video for Dangerous was filmed during Roxettes concert at Borgholm Castle in Öland, Sweden and it is a mix of rehearsal and live performance footage from that show, and was directed by Doug Freel. All songs written and composed by Per Gessle, except Joy of a Toy, composed by Gessle and Mats Persson
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Joyride (Roxette song)
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Joyride is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. Written by Per Gessle, it was released as the single from their third studio album, Joyride. It became one of Roxettes biggest hits, and was one of the most successful singles of 1991, topping charts across Europe, as well as in Australia, Canada. Per Gessle has said that the line of the song was inspired by a note his girlfriend left on his piano. Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Chipettes covered Joyride for their 1991 album The Chipmunks Rock the House, during the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs, the song was used as the intro music of the Vancouver Canucks as they took to the ice before each game. The song became one of the duos biggest hits, and was one of the most successful singles of 1991 and it was their first number one single in their home country, and their first platinum-certified single there. It also topped the charts in other territories, including Austria, Finland. The song spent eight weeks at one in Germany, where it was certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. Joyride peaked at four on the UK Singles Chart, their second-highest chart placing there—behind top three hit It Must Have Been Love. The song spent three weeks atop the Australian Singles Chart, and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipments in excess of 70,000 units and it went on to remain one of the top ten-best selling singles of the year in that country. It was their fourth and last number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, all songs written and composed by Per Gessle
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How Do You Do!
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How Do You Do. is a pop rock song by Swedish pop duo Roxette. It was released as the single from their fourth studio album Tourism on 3 July 1992. The song was a success upon release, topping the national singles charts in Norway. It also peaked at two in several countries, including Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden. It was hold off the top spot in many of these territories by Dr. Albans Its My Life, the single was backed by several remixes created by Swedish production duo BomKrash, which consisted of Jacob Hellner and Carl-Michael Herlöfsson. According to Ultimate Guitar, How Do You Do. is a pop rock song written in common time with a tempo of 121 beats per minute. It utilises a common trait found in Roxette compositions of the using a different key signature than the chorus. The verse is composed in C, and consists of three repetitions of a basic C–F–G–F sequence, followed by one shortened sequence of C–F–G, the pre-chorus makes use of a power chord structure, and consists of a sequence of Am–G–F–C–Em, which is then amended to Am–G–F–G. Following a brief pause, Marie Fredriksson takes over lead vocals for the songs chorus, the chorus is composed almost entirely of sharp notes, and follows a sequence of D♯–A♯–D♯–G♯–A♯–Cm–G♯–A♯–Cm–G♯–A♯. The bridge consists of four repetitions of Cm–A♯, played as power chords. American musician Tiny Tim is referenced in the songs lyrics, cassette and 7 single How Do You Do. –3,09 Fading Like a Flower –4,0912 single How Do You Do, –3,12 Knockin on Every Door –3,51 How Do You Do. –5,43 CD single How Do You Do, –3,12 Fading Like a Flower –4,09 Knockin on Every Door –6,05 How Do You Do. –5,43 US CD single How Do You Do, –3,11 Fading Like a Flower –4,09 In 2005, a cover of the song by German dance act Cascada was released as the third single from their debut album Everytime We Touch. This version charted in the top fifty of the Ö3 Austria Top 40, –5,57 Digital download How Do You Do. –7,05 Roxette. se — Roxettes official website CascadaMusic. de — Cascadas official website How Do You Do. at MusicBrainz Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Sleeping in My Car
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Sleeping in My Car is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 7 March 1994 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, Crash. The song was composed by Per Gessle in under an hour and it is a pop rock song containing elements drawn from pop punk. Marie Fredrikssons vocal range on the spans over three octaves. The song was an commercial success in numerous territories, including Europe, Canada, Australia. It became the second number one single in their home country. It also peaked at seven on Billboards European Hot 100 Singles. In Canada, the reached the top three on two different national charts. In contrast, it was the final song to enter the US Billboard Hot 100. Sleeping in My Car was the song the band recorded for Crash. Bang. and was written by Per Gessle, in the liner notes of their 1995 greatest hits compilation Dont Bore Us, Get to the Chorus. Gessle described how, on listening to the first playback of the album just before Christmas 1993 and he elaborated, We had worked for a year, much too long, endless hours of studio time. I mean, I loved it but there was too little P-O-P, went straight home, really pissed off and came up with this neanderthal-riff and wrote it in an hour. According to Ultimate Guitar, the track is a pop rock song. The song contains elements of pop punk, and its verse is composed of an F♯m–E–F♯m–D–F♯m–E–C♯–D sequence, the first two lines of the bridge are made up almost entirely of slash chords, consisting of two repetitions of a F#–C#/F–B/D#–F#/C# sequence. Marie Fredrikssons vocal range in the spans over three octaves, from a bass note of F♯3 in the first verse to a C♯5 in the final chorus. When Roxette performed in the Workers Indoor Arena in Beijing, China in 1995 during the Crash, tour, Chinese government officials demanded that the band alter the lyrics of this song. We agreed, but didnt change them in the end, said Gessle, finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom included a cover of Sleeping in My Car as a bonus track on their 2013 album Halo of Blood. The song was an commercial success throughout Europe, and become their second number one single in their native Sweden
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Run to You (Roxette song)
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Run to You is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 14 November 1994 as the fourth single from their fifth studio album Crash. The song charted moderately in several territories, peaking at number twenty in Finland, while reaching the top forty in Belgium, Scotland, Switzerland and it was the duos final single to chart on the Australian Singles Chart, where it peaked at number forty-nine. B-side Dont Believe in Accidents was written by Per Gessle on 29 March 1988 as a way to learn how to use my new synthesizer, I wrote another one as well, probably the same day. The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, and consists of footage of the band during the Crash. It features shots of band travelling and performing during soundchecks, and ends with a scene of the taking to the stage at the tours 18 October 1994 date at the Festhalle in Frankfurt. All songs written by Per Gessle, except Listen to Your Heart by Gessle and Mats Persson. UK7 and cassette single Run to You –3,39 Love Is All –4,33 CD single Run to You –3,39 Dont Believe in Accidents –3,42 Crash. –4,15 Almost Unreal –3,25 UK CD2 Run to You –3,39 Listen to Your Heart –4,05 Joyride –3,59 How Do You Do, –3,12 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Stars (Roxette song)
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Stars is the third single from the Have a Nice Day album by the Swedish duo Roxette. The single was released in August 1999 and this song was originally a rock-driven track, but it made a complete change in the studio. Stars is a song with dance and techno sound, which was a new direction for Roxette. Lead vocals were performed by Marie Fredriksson and in the chorus a children choir can be heard, many remixes were made, including Almighty Radio Edit, which got airplay in most of radio stations. Stars was released as a maxi-CD with the track Better Off On Her Own, in Europe, Stars became a hit single, hitting Top 10 in Finland, #11 in Norway and #13 in Sweden. In Germany it was the highest charting single from the Have A Nice Day album and it was the last Roxette single to make the UK Top 75, but it charted quite low, at #56. The video, directed by Anton Corbijn, reached #19 on MTVs European Top 20, promo Stars –3.44 Stars –3
