My love-story with ROXETTE, their amazing success worldwide and the end of their final tour.
A couple years ago I got an SMS from a friend to check youtube, Marie Fredrikson had fell on stage and this continued to happen more frequently on their live world tour promoting their latest album, Charm School
I must have been about ten years old when I got a MC-copy of their albums Joyride & Tourism which I would play on my Sony Walkman as much and as often as I had batteries on the darn thing
I was introduced to their music by two girlfriends I went to school with. There was a birthday party, and one of them put on "The Look" on her family´s stereo and everybody liked it, danced and tried to sing along with our make-believe English which was really just gutteral sounds back then. From that day on I was hooked on Roxette, and could not believe how much money one single or even worse one album would cost in the music store.
I convinced my little brother to buy the Joyride-Album with his money, and my friend Håvards mom bought the Tourism-Album and with a little bit of copying and pasting, I had both of them and could walk - like a man - listening to empowering ballads and cool guitar riffs from Per Gessle´s slick way of making every single song sound awesome.
The one and only time I actually went to a Roxette concert was on their World Tour 2012: Lima, Peru – April 21st. Something inside me told me this would be the last and only chance to see them live and show them the love I truly have for their music in my heart, so I convinced my wife and a few friends to buy VIP-tickets for this events, to stand all the way up front as anything else just would not be good enough.
That night was one of the best nights of my life, and it actually brings tears to my eyes thinking back on this event, tears of joy and sadness that we have seen the best of their performance in the past, to sing along with them and as blood-fans backing them even harder, and after the concert Per & Marie wrote:
Oh Yea! Lima was, just as expected, an out of this world experience! Superb crowd, Marie’s voice in good shape and the tiny boogie band in killer mode!!! Such a pleasure to be on stage in this environment. Big thanks to all you almost 15000 ppl who participated in making this Saturday night a winner! Cheers, P&M&Co
To help me conclude this story, I will put in a song from 1992, Queen of Rain. The first time I heard this song, my friend Håvard called me on the house telephone to tell me to turn on the television, I caught the last half of it and as almost everything else released from them before, this too was high quality.
Dream about the SUN you QUEEN of RAIN!
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