With Marie Fredriksson in 1986 to form the Swedish pop/rock act Roxette,Īlthough it wasn't until 1988 with the release of the album Look Sharp! that the duo achieved their first commercial success. Message left on Per Gessle's piano by his girlfriend. The song was also a major hit across Europe.Īpparently, the opening line "Hello, You Fool, I Love You" came from a Title track and lead single from the album and was released in Februaryġ991, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in America and peakingĪt No.4 in the UK.
Here we have the official video for Joyride, which was the Night away - I certainly danced to this one on a regular basis, or I Would go out to a nightclub with my friends most weekends and dance the This song brings back some wonderful memories from the early 90s, when I The Look '95 reached #28 in the UK singles chart.Įven though the Look Sharp! album was extremely successful during the late 1980's, Roxette's 1991 album Joyride was their most successful and sold 11 million copies worldwide. Ī remix of The Look was released in 1995 (UK only) to coincide with the release of the band's greatest hits album entitled Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! - Roxette's Greatest Hits. Other hits from the album were Dressed For Success, Listen To Your Heart and Dangerous. Worldwide 9 million copies of theĪlbum were sold. It featured on the album Look Sharp! which peaked at #4 Into the biggest Swedish pop phenomenon since ABBA.Īt the end of the 80s, The Look proved to be Roxette'sīreakthrough single and gave the band their first hit single outsideĬhart-wise, the song reached #7 in the UK during Aprilġ989, but topped the charts in 24 countries including the US andĬanada. Of Sweden, and started a success story that would turn them In 1986, Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle recorded their debut single "Neverending Love" as Roxette, which was a No.3 hit in their home country
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