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Halmstad
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Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County, the city had a population of 92,797 in 2012, out of a municipal total of over 90,000. Halmstad is Swedens 20th-largest city by population and located about midway between Gothenburg and Malmö and it is Europes northernmost city with a lot of timber framing architecture. Halmstad, at the part of the Kingdom of Denmark, received its first city charter in 1307. The oldest remains of that first town are to be found at Övraby upstream on Nissan, just south of, the remains of the church can still be seen today between a defunct brick industry and a former landfill. In the 1320s the town moved to the present day town centre, at this time there were two monasteries in the town and during the 15th century the St. Nikolai church was built. Halland was the object of numerous battles, sieges and occupations by Swedish troops, during the Kalmar Union – a Nordic Union between Sweden, Norway and Denmark which lasted between 1400 and 1520 – it was in Halmstad that the Union King was to be finally selected. 1619 is an important date in the history of Halmstad, in March of that year, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and Christian IV met at the castle. Over a period of a week they celebrated the payment in full of the Älvsborg ransom, august of the same year saw the destruction of Halmstad by fire. Halland became part of Sweden for a period of thirty years when peace was declared at the Treaty of Brömsebro in 1645, the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658 made this acquisition permanent. Sweden defeated Denmark in the Battle of Fyllebro which took place in 1676 just outside Halmstad, the first May Day demonstration in Sweden was held in Halmstad in 1897. The population grew from 48,800 in 1990 to 58,577 in 2010, in September 2007 the city hosted the Solheim Cup, which was played at the Halmstad Golfklubb. In 2011 Halmstad was the port of the Tall Ships Races. Halmstad has the south Scandinavian variety of the relatively wet climate with warm summers and cool to cold winters. Founded in 1983, Halmstad University is a higher education institution offering bachelors and masters programs in various fields of study. In addition, it conducts Ph. D. programs in three fields of research, Information Technology, Innovation Science and Health Science, Halmstad University has more than 9000 students, including 245 exchange students and 163 international programme students
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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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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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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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Sony BMG
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a record music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG. The ventures successor, the again-active Sony Music Entertainment, is 100% owned by the Sony Corporation of America, Sony BMG Music Entertainment began in Skem as the result of a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group completed on March 4,2004. The merger affected all Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group companies worldwide except for Japan, financial analysts covering the merger anticipated that up to 2,000 jobs would be cut as a result, saving Sony BMG approximately $350 million annually. The companys chief executive officer is Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, who succeeded Andrew Lack on February 10,2006, in the first half of 2005, the companys share of new releases in the United States declined from 33% to 26% according to Nielsen SoundScan. This, and Lacks negotiation of what called a ill-conceived deal with Bruce Springsteen led to Bertelsmann informing Sony that it would not renew Lacks contract. The company signed a content deal with the video sharing community YouTube. On August 5,2008 Sony Corporation agreed to buy Bertelsmann AGs 50 percent stake in the company for $1.2 billion to get full control. The music company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment and became a unit of Sony Corporation of America, epic Records, one of their labels, was specifically cited for using fake contests in order to hide the fact that the gifts were going to disc jockeys rather than listeners. A scandal ensued over digital rights management software produced and shipped by Sony BMG that automatically installed itself on peoples computers, the scandal and attendant controversy about the practice of software auto-installation spawned several lawsuits. Sony BMG eventually recalled all of the affected CDs, uS-CERT advised, Do not install software from sources that you do not expect to contain software, such as an audio CD. In its Top Flops of 05 issue, the enterprise newsweekly eWeek had to create a new category for the Sony BMG root-kit fiasco, peter Coffee, of eWeek Labs reported, The Sony brand name was already in trouble—it lost 16 percent of its value between 2004 and 2005. Now it has taken a blow among tech-product opinion leaders, weve never done it before, and we hope well never have occasion to do it again but, for 2005, eWeek Labs awards a Stupid Tech Trick grand prize to Sony. EWeek Vol.22, No.50 In October 2007, Sony BMG, alongside other large music firms, successfully sued Jammie Thomas. Ms. Thomas – who made US$36,000 a year – was ordered to pay US$222,000 in damages for making 24 songs available for download on the Kazaa file-sharing network. Thomas had allegedly shared 1702 files in total, the court upholding the award called it a case of willful infringement. Sony did not restrict minor childrens participation in its websites, Sony paid a $1 million fine. Sony Commercial Music Group – Official Site Sony Music Entertainment, Incorporated – Company Profile on Yahoo
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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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Gyllene Tider
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Gyllene Tider is a Swedish pop group headed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Per Gessle. Few Scandinavians would not recognize the bands most famous song Sommartider, often played on the radio during late spring, the band is well known for its catchy choruses and light-weight lyrics about summer, teenage love and life in a small town in Sweden. In 1976, Per Gessle met Mats Persson, a member of the band Audiovisuellt Angrepp, later Micke Andersson, Anders Herrlin and Göran Fritzon joined and the quintet was born. The groups name was changed to Gyllene Tider, alluding to Mott the Hooples song The Golden Age of Rock n Roll, in the following year, the band had become local celebrities in Halmstad for their Christmas concerts. Taking advantage of this they released their quite rare vinyl EP, Billy, in 1980, the LP Gyllene Tider was released, becoming a huge success in Sweden. Flickorna på TV2 was the albums biggest hit, the second album, released in 1981 under the name Moderna Tider, also enjoyed huge success, and was followed by a national tour. The following year Puls was released, with the hits Sommartider, the group tried to break through to the American market in 1984 with the album Heartland under the name Roxette, however, the album flopped, selling only about 8,000 copies. The name Roxette was later used by Per Gessle to name his successful collaboration with Marie Fredriksson, in 1985 Gyllene Tider officially broke up. In the following years, however, a few Greatest hits albums were released, in 2004 the band celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with the first new album in 20 years and a big summer tour in July and August. The tour, called GT25, was a success, being the biggest tour in Scandinavia ever. Gyllene Tider reunited again on August 14,2010, as an encore during Roxettes concert in Halmstad. In January 2013, the group announced a new album and summer tour in Sweden, the album was released on April 24,2013, the 19-show tour started on July 5,2013 in Halmstad and ended August 10 in Eskilstuna. Others Modern Times - Never released Heartland (special US release, containing 6 tracks from The Heartland Café, Gyllene Tider Gyllene Tider. com - Elektroniska Tider Gyllene Tider at AllMusic Gyllene Tider discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs
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Son of a Plumber
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Son of a Plumber is an album released by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. It is the first album by Gessle to use a pseudonym artist name, the album, which was officially released on 23 November 2005, is a double CD album packed with deeply personal and highly inventive music according to Gessle. There were three singles released from the album, Son of a Plumber became a defined band, with Per Gessle, vocals and guitar, Clarence Öfwerman, keyboards, Christoffer Lundquist, guitar, Jens Jansson, drums, and Helena Josefsson, vocals. They had all participated in Pers previous solo albums, The World According to Gessle & Mazarin, except Helena Josefsson, together, they also went on to record Gessles next solo albums, En händig man and Party Crasher. They have been on the last Gessle tour too, a lot of songs have typical Per characteristics, overall it is similar to the Beatles White Album. Beatles references can be heard in the music and they have their name in a title of a song, the false solo project become a duo with Helena Josefssons leading vocals on I Have a Party in My Head and Hey Mr DJ. I Have a Party in My Head demonstrates a typical Per trait by having rhyming verses, another typical trait is some of the tracks include hooks, such as in Jo-Anna Says which has guitar riffs and lyrical repetition. In between the tracks there are some 1 minute long instrumentals that lead into the following song. Kurt - the Fastest Plumber in the West and Ronnie Lane are examples of this, the final track Making Love or Expecting Rain contained a few lines of French lyrics, Je ne suis quun enfant. Je ne suis que ton enfant, jai confiance en toi, toujours en toi. which means Im just a child. I trust you, always in you, lasting five minutes, this is the longest song on the album. There is also a track on the CD which is a reprise of Jo-Anna Says. The digital release on iTunes came with the bonus tracks,1. Plonk Son Of a Plumbers official site PerGessle. net Gyllene Tider. com The Daily Roxette Roxettes official site Son of a Plumber discography at MusicBrainz
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Swedes
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Swedes are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, the English term Swede has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. The term is believed to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European reflexive pronominal root, *se. The word must have meant ones own, the same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia. Sweden enters proto-history with the Germania of Tacitus in AD98, in Germania 44,45 he mentions the Swedes as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow in both ends. Which kings ruled these Suiones is unknown, but Norse mythology presents a line of legendary and semi-legendary kings going back to the last centuries BC. In the 6th century Jordanes named two tribes, which he calls the Suehans and the Suetidi, who lived in Scandza and these two names are both considered to refer to the same tribe. The Suehans, he says, has very fine horses just as the Thyringi tribe, the Icelander Snorri Sturluson wrote of the 6th-century Swedish king Adils that he had the finest horses of his days. The Suehans supplied black fox-skins for the Roman market, then Jordanes names the Suetidi which is considered to be the Latin form of Svitjod. He writes that the Suetidi are the tallest of men - together with the Dani, later he mentions other Scandinavian tribes as being of the same height. Originating in semi-legendary Scandza, a Gothic population had crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century AD and they reaching Scythia on the coast of the Black Sea in modern Ukraine, where Goths left their archaeological traces in the Chernyakhov culture. In the 5th and 6th centuries, they divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. Crimean Gothic communities appear to have survived intact in the Crimea until the late 18th century, the Swedish Viking Age lasted roughly between the 8th and 11th centuries. During this period, it is believed that the Swedes expanded from eastern Sweden and it is believed that Swedish Vikings and Gutar mainly travelled east and south, going to Finland, the Baltic countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine the Black Sea and further as far as Baghdad. Their routes passed through the Dnieper down south to Constantinople, on which they did numerous raids, the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos noticed their great skills in war and invited them to serve as his personal bodyguard, known as the varangian guard. The Swedish Vikings, called Rus are also believed to be the fathers of Kievan Rus. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan described these Vikings as following, I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys, each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife, and keeps each by him at all times. The swords are broad and grooved, of Frankish sort, the adventures of these Swedish Vikings are commemorated on many runestones in Sweden, such as the Greece Runestones and the Varangian Runestones
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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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Neverending Love
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Neverending Love, written by Per Gessle, was the first release by the Swedish pop duo Roxette, and was later included on their debut album Pearls of Passion. Originally the single was meant to be released outside Sweden but EMI eventually changed their minds. It peaked at #3 on the chart in Sweden. The song was originally called Svarta glas and had written for another Swedish artist. She turned it down and gave it to her brother, Niclas Wahlgren, the songs new title was Neverending Love. There are two videos for Neverending Love. The first video was shot in Luxembourg in 1986 and features a red-haired Marie Fredriksson, the second video was directed by Rikard Petrelius and was shot in Sweden one year later. Side A Neverending Love Side B Neverending Love Voices Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Pearls of Passion
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Pearls of Passion is the debut studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette. It was originally released on cassette and vinyl on 31 October 1986 in Scandinavia, on 31 October 1997, the album was remastered and re-released on CD. This reissue contained several previously unreleased bonus tracks and it was re-mastered and re-released again in 2009. The album was a success in the duos native country. Neverending Love, Goodbye to You, Soul Deep and I Call Your Name were released as singles, as of 2001, the album has sold 800,000 copies worldwide. Dance Passion, a compilation EP containing seven remixed versions of tracks found on Pearls of Passion, was released in Sweden in 1987, a non-album single, It Must Have Been Love, was released in December 1987, and was their second top five hit in Sweden. The song was later re-recorded – with the reference to Christmas changed to a neutral winter reference –, re-recorded versions of two songs from the album went on to feature on two later albums released by the band. CD versions of their 1991 album Joyride contained a version of Soul Deep, all lyrics and music written by Per Gessle, except where noted
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Look Sharp! (Roxette album)
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Look Sharp. is the second studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette. The album was released on 21 October 1988, two years after their debut Pearls of Passion and it was recorded at EMI Studios in Stockholm and at Trident II Studios in London between March and June 1988. The album was an commercial success in Sweden, debuting at number one. Although commercial success elsewhere was initially modest, the album was the international breakthrough. It went on to be certified platinum or multi-platinum in numerous territories, the Look and Listen to Your Heart both topped the Billboard Hot 100, while Dangerous and Dressed for Success reached numbers two and fourteen respectively on the same chart. Dressed for Success and Listen to Your Heart were released as the albums first two singles in Sweden, with Gessle and EMI choosing to highlight Fredriksson as Roxettes lead vocalist and they were immediate hits in Sweden, peaking at numbers two and three respectively. Chances was released as the albums first single France, Germany and Italy, the Look was released as the albums fourth single in January 1989, becoming another top 10 hit in their home country. While studying there, an American exchange student from Minneapolis, Dean Cushman, purchased the album and brought it home, giving a copy of it to his local Top 40 radio station, KDWB101.3 FM. The Look 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 and it gradually became a global hit over the next year, topping the charts in 25 countries. It also spent six weeks at one on the Australian Singles Chart. The albums previous singles – excluding Chances – were re-released internationally, Roxette would go on to have four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, including Listen to Your Heart, while the albums final single, Dangerous, peaked at number two. The album received mixed reviews from critics, only Chances and Shadow of a Doubt show glimmers of the skills the duo would soon flourish. Looks like Roxettes forte is pop music that is prettily presented, Roxette were nominated for two Grammis Awards – the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards – in 1989, for Artist of the Year and Best Pop/Rock Group. Fredriksson and Gessle each won an award for Best Pop/Rock Female and Best Composer, both Roxette and Fredriksson won numerous Rockbjörnen awards during this period. They were awarded Best Swedish Album and Best Swedish Group at the 1988 ceremony, Fredriksson won the award for Best Swedish Female over four consecutive years, from 1986 to 1989. Look Sharp. was an commercial success in Sweden, selling over 140,000 copies within ten days of release
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Joyride (Roxette album)
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The album was recorded over an 11-month period in Sweden. The album was a critical and commercial success upon release, with a review for AllMusic calling it the work of two pop artists at the top of their game. Joyride topped the charts and was certified multi-platinum in several territories, Joyride, Fading Like a Flower, The Big L. Spending My Time and Church of Your Heart were released as singles, Roxette also toured extensively to support the record, the Join the Joyride. Tour saw them performing to over 1.7 million people across four continents, as of 2001, Joyride has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The pair recorded rough demo versions of ten songs over a period, after which they were joined by vocalist Marie Fredriksson. By the end of April, the three had completed work on over twenty-five demos, work was transferred to EMI Studios in Stockholm in May, where Gessle and Fredriksson were joined by producer Clarence Öfwerman. With the success of previous album Look Sharp, Gessle has described the pressure to deliver a successful follow-up album as intense, with EMI investing almost US$2 million on pre-release promotion for Joyride. So I think she should write more and her limited input in the songwriting of Roxette material stemmed from difficulty with writing English lyrics, she has said that it feels very strange to write in another language. The song is more folk-orientated than any previously recorded by the duo. The title track was released as the albums first single and it became one of Roxettes biggest ever hits, and was one of the most successful singles of 1991. It was the duos first number one single in their home country, the song spent eight weeks at number one in Germany, where it was certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. It spent three weeks atop the Australian Singles Chart, and was their fourth and last US number one single and it also topped the singles chart in Canada, where it was nominated for a Juno Award in 1992 for Best Selling Single by a Foreign Artist. Fading Like a Flower was released as the second single, the Big L. was released as the third single outside of North America in August, peaking within the top twenty of numerous territories. In September, Roxette began their Join the Joyride, opening on September 4 in Helsinki, the tour would see the band playing to over 1.7 million people during its 100 shows in Europe, Australia and North and South America. The South American leg of the tour was successful, with the band playing to nearly 350,000 people at thirteen concerts. The North American leg of the tour received mixed reviews, a review for the Los Angeles Times claimed that Fredriksson was squandering her talents in pops low-rent district. Shes clearly superior to Roxettes uncomplicated, hook-crammed material, Jon Pareles of The New York Times criticized their show for its mimicry of MTV
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Crash! Boom! Bang!
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Bang. is the fifth studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released on 9 April 1994 by EMI. The album was an commercial success, peaking within the top ten in over twenty national charts throughout Europe, Australasia. Despite this, the album was never released in the United States. Bang. was sold for a time through outlets of the McDonalds restaurant chain. This edition sold over a million copies there, japanese editions included Almost Unreal as a bonus track. Five singles were released from the album, lead single Sleeping in My Car became the second number one in their home country. It would become the final track to appear on the Billboard Hot 100. This was followed by the release of Crash, fireworks, Run to You and Vulnerable. Bang. has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide, bang. s international release, a shorter version of the album was released by CEMA for a limited time exclusively through outlets of the McDonalds restaurant chain in the US. Bang. sold over a million copies, the proceeds of which were used to fund Ronald McDonald House Charities programs for the health and this CD was sold at below normal wholesale cost, and the promotion angered traditional music retailers, who claimed that it devalued music. This edition of the record was the subject of a 1998 lawsuit filed against an Uppsala-based music production company by Roxette, the duo and their label alleged that J. G. S. Skivproduktion illegally imported 40,000 copies of Favorites from Crash, rather than seek monetary damages, the duo requested the destruction of all remaining copies. The record was released globally from 9 April 1994 on CD, cassette, japanese editions included Almost Unreal as a bonus track—the song had previously been released as a non-album single on the soundtrack of the Super Mario Bros. motion picture. Despite a tentative early summer release date being set for the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the full-length album sold 46,000 copies in the US as of 2005, as an import-release. The band toured extensively to promote the record, the Crash, tour saw them perform to over a million people. Roxette became the first western act since Wham. in 1985 to stage a concert in communist China, the tour concluded on 1 May 1995 in Moscow, with Roxette becoming the first act since 1917 to hold a concert on that date—a public holiday in Russia. As of 2001, the album has sold over 5 million copies worldwide, five singles were released from the album. Sleeping in My Car served as its single, and was an immediate commercial success throughout Europe
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Christoffer Lundquist
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Carl Christoffer Lundquist, born 1970, is a Swedish musician and producer. His own band is Brainpool where he started as a player and backing vocalist. Brainpool won a Swedish Grammy in 1994 and he has also produced albums by Per Gessle and Gyllene Tider and played in the backing groups of Roxette and Gessle. He has his own studio in the south of Sweden, The Aerosol Grey Machine Studio in Vallarum. The AGM is primarily a studio with much vintage equipment. In May 2011, Christoffer released his solo album, Through the Window. All the songs on the album were co-written with songwriter Michael Saxell, the album reached #29 on the Swedish album chart. Also in May, Christoffer was the first person ever to be awarded the Sir George Martin Award at an event in Malmö
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The World According to Gessle
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The World According to Gessle is a solo album by Per Gessle, released on 2 May 1997. It was his first solo album in English, the title is a paraphrase of The World According to Garp - the novel by John Irving. Kix and I Want You to Know were released as singles, the videos for the singles were all directed by Jonas Åkerlund. At the end of the Lay Down Your Arms track, there is a hidden track, the track, an alternate version of Kix is called Cha-cha-cha, sung like Elvis Presley. The Japanese release of this features the ballad Love doesnt live here, the song was also recorded by Belinda Carlisle, which featured on her album A Woman. Gessle used Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as backing musicians for the album, the World According to Gessle was re-released in 2003 as a low budget edition in a cardboard sleeve, and again re-released in May 2008 as an anniversary edition. This time it was a double CD, with 26 bonus tracks, original release All tracks written by Per Gessle, except where noted. 2008 remastered re-release All tracks written by Gessle, except where noted, per Gessle - Words & Music, Vocals, Electric & Acoustic guitars, Harmonica, Tambourine, Vox Jaguar. Marie Fredriksson - Additional vocals on Ill Be Alright Clarence Öfwerman - Piano, Mellotron, Vox jaguar, Organ, Synthesizers, Vocoder, Acoustic guitar, Mats M. P Persson - Electric & acoustic guitars. Micke Syd Andersson - Drums & percussion, christoffer Lundquist - Bass guitar, Zither, Flute, Electric guitar, Backing vocals, Minimoog. Jens Jansson - Drums & percussion, david Birde - Electric & acoustic guitars. Michael Ilbert - Programming & percussion, Jonas Isacsson - Electric guitars & E-bow. Christer Jansson - Drums & percussion, micke Nord Andersson - Acoustic guitars. Jackie Öfwerman - Additional vocals on Elvis in Germany Erik Hausler - Baritone saxophone, strings by S. N. Y. K. O - Conducted by Mats Holmquist. Arranged by Gessle, Ilbert & Öfwerman, per interviewing himself about the album
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Do You Wanna Be My Baby?
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Do You Wanna Be My Baby. is the first single from Per Gessles album, The World According to Gessle. It peaked at the top of the Swedish charts for one week, b-side, Always Breaking My Heart was also recorded by Belinda Carlisle, for her album A Woman and a Man. The video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and featured members from a circus which performed several acts, CD single Do You Wanna Be My Baby. Always Breaking My Heart Maxi CD Do You Wanna Be My Baby, Always Breaking My Heart I Wanna Be With You
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Have a Nice Day (Roxette album)
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Have a Nice Day is the sixth studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released worldwide in March 1999. This was the first international Roxette release in 4 years and their first brand new album since 1994s Crash. The album was not released in the U. S. as the duo were no longer signed to a record label there, the album was a success in various European and Latin American countries, reaching the top three in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden. However, in the UK, it stalled at #28, failing to emulate the Top 5 success of all their previous albums, Wish I Could Fly, the first single, was a sizable hit and was one of the most frequently played songs in Europe during 1999. In the UK the single peaked at #11 on the UK charts, the second single to be released from the album was the ballad Anyone, which failed to make any impact on the charts. The controversial video, directed by long-time collaborator Jonas Akerlund, ends with a distressed Fredriksson committing suicide, the video was the banned by MTV, due to the videos sensitive content. The poor chart showing by Anyone meant EMI UK decided against releasing the single, even though they had sent out promo CDs to radio DJs. The third single from the album was the dance number Stars. The fourth single from the album was Salvation, which reached the Top 20 in Finland, the track It Will Take a Long Long Time was featured in the Julia Roberts and Richard Gere romantic comedy Runaway Bride, though it was not included on the soundtrack album. Have a Nice Day was the first ever Roxette album to feature a track written by Marie Fredriksson. In Arab countries the naked babies on the sleeve had to be removed for religious reasons, the success of Have a Nice Day saw Roxette win the Highest Selling Scandinavian Act at the 2000 World Music Awards. For the Awards Gala, Roxette chose to lead single Wish I Could Fly. CD All tracks written by Per Gessle, except where noted, spanish lyrics by Luis Gómez Escolar. P
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Room Service (Roxette album)
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Room Service is the seventh studio album released by Swedish pop duo Roxette, on 2 April 2001. The album was a European release only and not released in the United States, the album was a shorter effort than their previous release Have a Nice Day. The Centre of the Heart was originally recorded during the Have a Nice Day sessions but was left off that album, the album produced three singles, The Centre of the Heart, Real Sugar and Milk and Toast and Honey. The Centre of the Heart peaked at #1 in Sweden and was a hit in various European countries. Room Service received a response from critics. Probably the best Roxette album since Joyride, wrote Leslie Mathew of Allmusic, Room Service is an exciting, immediate, high-gloss pop gem that contains very little filler indeed. Chili Paddy from MTV Asia also praised the album, saying There are many potential hit singles such as the glorious chirpy sing-along Real Sugar. Caroline Sullivan from UK newspaper The Guardian disliked the album, and wrote, per Bjurman, from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, bluntly put it, It is not very good, and thought the album was not original. Many songs sound like covers of old Roxette material, perhaps inevitable when you return to roots, but a little more imagination may be required. Simon P. Ward from Dotmusic called the verse a lyrical gem, Ward additionally noted that Make My Head Go Pop. has everything and the kitchen sink thrown into it - keyboards, techno beats, the guitar riff from the Stones Satisfaction and strings. In more recent years, Anders Nunstedt from Expressen gave a critical overview to the album. Speaking of the album in relation to Roxettes other studio albums, he said it was, Outdated, unattractive, while in another comment he stated On Have a Nice Day, you heard a band that has lost its compass. You do not have to listen carefully to Room Service to hear the sound of a duo who have been lost in the woods so long that the search ended. The visual theme to the sleeve and promo shots, photographed by Jonas Åkerlund, was shot at the Californian hotel The Madonna Inn. The video for The Centre of the Heart, directed by Åkerlund, was shot at the hotel, the video became the most expensive Roxette video ever produced, surpassing long-time title holder Spending My Time from their 1991 Joyride album. The Room Service World Tour 2001 was Roxettes first tour in six years. Concerts planned in South Africa were cancelled after the September 11 attacks, on reviewing one of their concerts, Bjurman from Aftonbladet was critical of the duos chosen playlist and suggested that the duo had become too stuck in their past glories. Johan Lindqvist from Göteborgs-Posten was more positive, scoring their Munich concert four stars, all tracks written by Per Gessle, except Little Girl written by Marie Fredriksson
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Music recording sales certification
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Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies. The threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory, almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials. The number of sales or shipments required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory in which the recording is released, typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country in which the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times lower than others, the original gold record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. The first of these was awarded by RCA Victor to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942, another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for one million units sold of his single Dont Be Cruel. The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA Victor to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso and these sales were restricted to U. S. -based record companies and did not include exports to other countries. For albums in 1968, this would mean shipping approximately 250,000 units, the platinum certification was introduced in 1976 for the sale of one million units, album or single, with the gold certification redefined to mean sales of 500,000 units, album or single. No album was certified platinum prior to this year, for instance, the recording by Van Cliburn of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto from 1958 would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this would not happen until two decades after its release. In 1999, the certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. On 14 March 1958, the RIAA certified its first gold record, soundtrack was certified as the first gold album four months later. In 1976, RIAA introduced the platinum certification, first awarded to Johnnie Taylors single, Disco Lady, as music sales increased with the introduction of compact discs, the RIAA created the Multi-Platinum award in 1984. Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999 and this became much less common once the majority of retail sales became paid digital downloads and digital streaming. In most countries certifications no longer apply solely to physical media, in June 2006, the RIAA also certified the ringtone downloads of songs. Streaming from on-demand services such as Rhapsody and Spotify has been included into existing digital certification in the U. S since 2013, in the U. S. and Germany video streaming services like YouTube, VEVO, and Yahoo. Music also began to be counted towards the certification, in both cases using the formula of 100 streams being equivalent to one download, other countries, such as Denmark and Spain, maintain separate awards for digital download singles and streaming. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry was founded in 1996, and grants the IFPI Platinum Europe Award for album sales over one million within Europe, multi-platinum Europe Awards are presented for sales in subsequent multiples of one million. Eligibility is unaffected by time, and is not restricted to European-based artists, IMPALA sales awards were launched in 2005 as the first sales awards recognising that success on a pan-European basis begins well before sales reach one million. The award levels are Silver, Double Silver, Gold, Double Gold, Diamond, Platinum, below are certification thresholds for the United States and United Kingdom
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Helena Josefsson
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Helena Marianne Josefsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is the singer in the band Sandy Mouche and has been singing in Per Gessles projects since 2003. In February 2007 she released her first solo album, Dynamo, Helena Marianne Josefsson was born in Kalmar, Sweden on March 23,1978. Her parents, Per Olof and Margareta, divorced when Helena was seven years old and she is left-handed and can play keyboards, tambourine and harmonica. Helena married Martin Nilsson, her boyfriend, in 2003, they live in Malmö and became the parents of a boy, Charles-Didrik. On 31 May 2012 her second child, a boy named Cornelis was born, helenas thoughts on life and her career, - What do you want to become when you grow up. Either a troll or an artist, I replied to that question at 7 years of age. When I think about it, trolls and artists do have much in common. What I wanted, and still try to achieve, is the sense of liberty, being part of nature, getting room in the city and that it is all right to be the way one is and still being able to receive love. Being an artist and composer is one of the few lifestyles where one can be a troll simultaneously. - When you are born, you are complete but then shell after shell is added as protection against dangers around, or society forces you to take different parts, needs and patterns you dont really need or want. Then one can spend the rest of ones life finding and removing the bad shells, at least thats what I want to do In 2012 Helena graduated from the University of Copenhagen with an optometrist diploma. In between touring and recording sessions she works in one of the stores in Bjärred, where she currently resides with her family. Helena began to play in groups of Lund and Malmö at High School. Her first band was Plastic Soul, with Helena Josefsson, Johan Duncanson, Fredrick Whitling, Olof Martinsson, between 1996 and 2000, they took part in club gigs and indie Summer festivals and released some singles. Johan and Per began a new project, The Radio Dept. Helena also took part in two non long-lasting projects, in 1999, she played and recorded two promo E. P. s with Magnus Tingsek and their band ewing.1. Between 2000 and 2001, Helena was the singer of Dan Bornemarks rock band, The Good Mornings
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Finn 5 fel!
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Finn 5 fel. is an album from Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider, released on 9 June 2004. The album stayed at #1 in Sweden for six weeks and it was the first full studio album recorded by the group since 1984s The Heartland Café. The album was a critical and commercial success and it received favourable reviews and was the best selling album in Sweden during 2004 after selling 230,000 copies. En sten vid en sjö i en skog Solsken Tuffa tider Ordinärt mirakel Ta mej. nu är jag din. Jag borde förstås vetat bättre Du måste skämta Nere på gatan 72 Ande i en flaska Varje gång det regnar Hjärta utan hem Speciell Har du nånsin sett en dröm gå förbi
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Ullevi
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Ullevi, sometimes known as Nya Ullevi, is a multi-purpose stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. IFK Göteborg has also played two UEFA Cup finals at the stadium, in 1982 and 1987, but then as home game in a home, the stadium hosted several events, like football, ice hockey, boxing, racing, athletics and concerts. The stadium is one of the biggest in the Nordic countries, with a capacity of 43,000. The ground opened for the 1958 FIFA World Cup held across Sweden and it hosted four matches in Group D, including a play-off. It also held a quarter-final, a semi-final and the third-place match, the stadiumsrecord attendance, for football, is 52,194 and was set on 3 June 1959, when Örgryte IS played against IFK Göteborg. The stadium hosted the 1983 European Cup Winners Cup Final, which saw Scotlands Aberdeen beat Spanish giants Real Madrid 2–1 after extra time and it was also the venue for the first game between NFL teams to be played on the European continent, organised by Swedish motor company Volvo. In a pre-season game on 14 August 1988, the Minnesota Vikings won 28-21 against the Chicago Bears, the 1990 European Cup Winners Cup Final was also held at the stadium. It saw Sampdoria of Italy defeat Anderlecht of Belgium 2-0 after extra-time, Ullevi held three Group B matches at UEFA Euro 1992 as well as a semi-final, and the final itself on 26 June in which Denmark won the trophy against Germany. The 2004 UEFA Cup Final was held at the stadium on 19 May of that year, valencia of Spain defeated Marseille of France 2-0. The concert also caused nearly £3 million in damages, while David Bowies Glass Spider Tour in June 1987 was relocated from Ullevi to Eriksberg because of fears about the safety of the structure, since then, the concrete pillars supporting the stadium have been extended down to the bedrock. Springsteen has performed at the stadium on subsequent tours, michael Jackson came to Ullevi on August,161997 as part of his HIStory World Tour too, with a crowd of 50,000 people. Elton John hosted a concert in 1998. It was part of the Face-To-Face Tour with Billy Joel, but Joel was unable to perform, elton John played for over three hours. Tina Turner came to Ullevi on August,52000 as part of her Twenty Four Seven Tour The big four of thrash metal played in the stadium on 3 July 2011. U2 performed at the four times, the first one was on 2 August 1997 during their PopMart Tour. The second one was on 29 July 2005 during their Vertigo Tour, the third and the fourth were on 31 July and 1 August 2009 during their U2 360° Tour, in front of a total sold out crowd of 119,297 people. The performance of The Unforgettable Fire from the first 2009 show was recorded for the live album U22. Foo Fighters performed at the venue on 12 June 2015 on the Sonic Highways World Tour, however, Dave Grohl fell off stage during the second song of the concert, which led to him suffering a broken leg
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Party Crasher
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Party Crasher is the third English solo album by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. This is his second worldwide-released English solo album under his own name after The World According to Gessle in 1997, originally scheduled for release on 3 December in Sweden, it was actually released a week earlier on 26 November. The album reached #2 in the Swedish album charts, curiously becoming the first Gessle involved studio album that did not reach #1 in Sweden since Roxette´s Pearls of Passion, CD – containing the 12-track album. CD – containing the 12-track album, iTunes deluxe edition – digital download 12-track edition, plus one bonus track. Telia deluxe edition – digital download 12-track edition, plus one bonus track, LP limited edition – 12-track edition. All music and lyrics by Per Gessle, unless stated
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Silly Really
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Silly Really is a pop song by Swedish singer and composer Per Gessle from his album Party Crasher. It was released as the single from the album on October 29,2008. The song premiered at the Swedish radio-show MorronZoo, in the morning of October 24, the new remix of Silly Really will be released on January 19 or 26. It is also supposed to be available in all digital stores, the song is remixed by Dick Mixon. Expressens Andreas Nunstedt called Per Gessle a pop genius and described the song as a love story where disco meets synthpop. Håkan Steen from Aftonbladet describes Silly Really in a similar way, even if the single may not sound that modern, he said the song is a sure hit for the Swedish radio. Played and produced by Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist & Per Gessle, recorded at Aerosol Grey Machine, Vallarum, between jan. & sept. Words & music by Per Gessle, Silly Really music video on YouTube Silly Really at MusicBrainz
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Expressen
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Expressen is one of two nationwide evening tabloid newspapers in Sweden, the other being Aftonbladet. Expressen was founded in 1944, its symbol is a wasp, the first edition of Expressen was released on 16 November 1944. A main feature that day was an interview with the members of a British bomber who were successful in sinking the German ship Tirpitz. The editor in chief of Expressen is Thomas Mattsson, the paper is owned by the Bonnier Group. As of 2005 the paper had a stance, but it declared its independent leaning in 1995. Through mergers, the Gothenburg edition of Expressen is titled GT and the Malmö edition is titled Kvällsposten, Expressen maintains a centre-right political profile, describing its editorial position as independent liberal, while the competitor Aftonbladet is social-democratic. Ownership of Expressen is controlled by the Bonnier family, while Aftonbladet is owned jointly by Swedish trade unions, in 1998 the circulation of Expressen was 316,000 copies on weekdays and 396,000 copies on Sundays. The paper had a circulation of 334,000 copies in 2001, the 2004 circulation of the paper was 335,000 copies. It was 339,400 copies on weekdays in 2005, the 2010 circulation of the paper was 270,900 copies. In September 2016, Expressen published a column in which columnist Cecilia Hagen called political opponents rats, proceeded to ask how to get rid of them and its editorial offices are in Malmö and the editor in chief is Martin Kroon. Göteborgs-Tidningen or GT was a newspaper founded in Gothenburg in 1902. GT was owned by Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, but in 1973 acquired by Göteborgs-Posten, in 1998, Bonnier AB bought the newspaper and since then it has become a local edition of Expressen. GTs headquarters in Gothenburg and its editor in chief is Frida Boisen, list of Swedish newspapers Expressen, official website GT, official website Kvällsposten, official website
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Party Crasher Tour 2009
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Party Crasher tour 2009 is a club European tour by Per Gessle in support of his studio solo album Party Crasher. The tour was held in Europe from 16 April, till 10 May 2009, along with the songs from the aforementioned CD, Gessle and his band played tracks by Roxette and from Gessles solo albums like The World According to Gessle, Son of a Plumber, etc. For Gessles fans, as well as for Roxettes ones, this tour was important, because Marie Fredriksson joined Per on stage in Amsterdam and in Stockholm, which brought about the reunion of Roxette. This was confirmed when a release stated they were to perform later in 2009 at the Night of the Proms series in Europe in October–December 2009. On 28 March 2009, Helena Josefsson told on her official site, before the tour started, three weeks rehearsals were held in Stockholm. Per also asked his fans at The Daily Roxette portal, which 3 songs would they like him to perform live, thus, he wanted to choose some tracks he has never played live, which his fans would like to hear. Two days before the tour started, on 14 April 2009, in Stockholms Tyrol club, a concert was held for the band members friends. Some of the material recorded from the tour was released as an album, opportunity Nox band presentation Doesn’t Make Sense Church of Your Heart Dangerous Joyride extra C’mon Are you an Old Hippie, Sir. Reporter Nils Hansson writes that according to the set list, Roxette must be very very soon. Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet gave the first show 3 out of 5, after concert in Halmstad, the Swedish newspaper Hallandsposten called Gessle and his music a symbol of summer in Sweden. Per Gessles official site Martinique Josefssons tour blog Official info about the tour Per Gessle @ Music Web Navigator Pictures @ RexFeatures
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper,1,351,587 in the urban area, the city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe. Amsterdams name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the citys origin around a dam in the river Amstel, during that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered a world city by the Globalization. The city is also the capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the worlds 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 12th globally on quality of living for environment, the city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. After the floods of 1170 and 1173, locals near the river Amstel built a bridge over the river, the earliest recorded use of that name is in a document dated October 27,1275, which exempted inhabitants of the village from paying bridge tolls to Count Floris V. This allowed the inhabitants of the village of Aemstelredamme to travel freely through the County of Holland, paying no tolls at bridges, locks, the certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme. By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam, Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean there was already a settlement then, since reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either 1300 or 1306, from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League
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Stockholm
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The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC. It is also the capital of Stockholm County, Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the countrys GDP and it is an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europes top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and it hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the citys most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is known for its decoration of the stations. Swedens national football arena is located north of the city centre, Ericsson Globe, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Ministers residence is adjacent at the Sager House. After the Ice Age, around 8,000 BCE, there were already a number of people living in the present-day Stockholm area. Thousands of years later, as the ground thawed, the climate became tolerable, at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and lake Mälaren is an archipelago site where the Old Town of Stockholm was first built from about 1000 CE by Vikings. They had a positive impact on the area because of the trade routes they created. Stockholms location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne, the earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word meaning fortification, the second part of the name means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. Stockholms core, the present Old Town was built on the island next to Helgeandsholmen from the mid 13th century onward. The city originally rose to prominence as a result of the Baltic trade of the Hanseatic League, Stockholm developed strong economic and cultural linkages with Lübeck, Hamburg, Gdańsk, Visby, Reval, and Riga during this time
