Per Gessle is best known in the U.S. as half of the Swedish duo Roxette. With Marie Fredriksson, he topped the Billboard Hot 100 four times between 1989-1991, with “The Look,” “Listen to Your… By Fred ...
Roxette is known for chart-topping hits such as Listen To Your Heart, It Must Have Been Love, and Spending My Time.
Roxette's Per Gessle was the big winner at the 2004 Grammis Gala -- Sweden's oldest and most prestigious music prize, arranged and presented by the local affiliate of the IFPI -- on Monday (Feb. 9)… ...
Dean Cushman is widely regarded as sparking the Swedish duo's success in America. Here, he remembers Marie Fredriksson, who died Monday at age 61. Per Gessle pays tribute to Roxette partner Marie ...
Ahead of their Dubai gig, Roxette's Per Gessle chats to Krita Coelho Admit it. You know at least one Roxette song. Everybody does! From the late 80s until the mid-1990s, Per Gessle and Marie ...
As the half of Roxette who came up with the tunes, Per Gessle is one of the most successful songwriters of the last three decades. But he’s had to get used to life without singer Marie Fredriksson, ...
Per Gessle calls it a “miracle” that Marie Fredriksson, his partner in the Swedish pop duo Roxette, survived the brain tumors that required surgery in 2002. “Only 1 in 20 survive,” he says. Slowly but ...
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For many Formula 1 enthusiasts, the ultimate dream is to own a real F1 car. Per Gessle, world-famous with his band Roxette, is responsible for classics like It Must Have Been Love, Joyride, Listen To ...
As the pop-drenched 1980s drew to a close, a feel-good Swedish duo became one of the most popular, if least fashionable, groups on the planet. Roxette have just celebrated the 20th anniversary of ...