More than 70 million albums and over 15 million singles sold around the world, not to mention the impressive quantity (over 400) of gold and platinum awarded a full merit: this is the story in large numbers of Roxette, Swedish music duo who achieved full recognition in the late 80s and early 90s being able to bring, first of all, European pop music to conquer the U.S. music market. 
The history of Roxette began in 1986 when Per Gessle, Gyllene Tider idol group, decides to join her friend and artistic colleague Marie Fredriksson, singer already established, with the idea of \u200b\u200bcombining voice and guitar, making melodies catchy songs for easy listening. 
Their first album, "Pearls of Passion," released only in Sweden, totals over 250 thousand copies. Heralded a success destined not to be late to come back. The following year, "Passion Dance", a remix of songs taken from "Pearl of passion ", launches Roxette even in nightclubs, among the public at night, but leaving the duo still unknown seeds on the international art scene.
The sales boom is repeated again in 1988 with the release of their second album, "Look sharp", which allows Roxette to be discovered and appreciated outside of the mother country, while "The Look" and " Listen to Your Heart "rose to number one in the U.S. raising their success throughout the rest of Europe.
in 1990 to consecrate their fame is the inclusion of the single "It must've Been Love", rearranged for the occasion, all’intero della colonna sonora del film Pretty Woman, una fra le più popolari e benamate pellicole dell’intero decennio.
Gli anni 90, periodo di intensa promozione a livello mondiale, vengono inaugurati dai Roxette con il lancio, nel 1991, del terzo album “Joyride” (più di 10 milioni di copie vendute e i primi posti garantiti in tutte le classifiche), proseguiti nel ’92 con “Tourism” (16 canzoni registrate da camere d’albergo, concerti e altre più o meno insolite location), nel ’93 con “Crash” Boom” Bang!” (confezionato sull’isola di Capri) e nel ’99 con “Have a nice day” and extract it 4 singles ("Wish I Could Fly", "Stars," "Salvation" and "Anyone") all of the leaders, with more than 3 million copies snapped up.
Finally the years 2000, met with the release of their seventh album, "Room Service" (more than 1 million copies in 2001), and the publication of three Greatest Hits, respectively, in 2002, 2003 and 2006: "The ballads hits" and "The pop hits", where a couple of new songs are mixed with the unforgettable evergreens harmonious balance of the past, while in "The ROxBox / Roxette 86-06" are celebrated exactly twenty years since the birth of the group with an anthology of famous peppered with new material.
Trivia:
- According to what he tells a story created ad hoc and amplified by the media as only they can do, the duo Roxette was to become famous in the U.S. thanks to a Dean Cushman, a student (imaginary) of Minneapolis, who has returned from Sweden to the States with the deposit of "Look Sharp!" would succeed in getting the radio station KDWB 101.3 FM to spend more time ensuring the piece - Legend - the undisputed record success.
- The CD "Look Sharp!" Has sold 8 million copies and was awarded the "Best Swedish Album" with the award Rockbjornen.
- On 9 January 1993, Roxette recorded at Cirkus in Stockholm a concert for MTV Unplugged. In the same year the song "Almost Unreal" was chosen for the soundtrack of the film Super Mario Bros.
- The remixed cover of Stars, the third single from "Have a nice day" was used for a certain period of time in an advertisement for Vodafone.
- From the same album, the last statement, the single Salvation, was accompanied by a video clip shot in Italy between Naples and Amalfi.
- Close to the release of "A Thing About You" for the promotion of the new Greatest Hits, Marie Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumor, after hitting his head violently falling in the bathroom. The tumor is Malinga and Fredriksson is made after nearly a month of recovery post-trauma and subjected to long months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Because of this incident Marie has suffered some permanent brain damage, losing the ability to read and count in addition to having the right eye and mobility of the right side of the body. In 2003, after an exhibition of some of his portraits, the great Marie Fredriksonn published just 6 months after diagnosis of cancer "The Ch'ang," his only solo album in English.
- On November 29, 2005 Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson came together at the Dorchester Hotel in London for the awards presentation of the Broadcast Music Incorporated, better known as BMI. Per Gessle received the award for "It Must Have Been Love" which was submitted by U.S. radio more than 4 million times. "Listen To Your Heart" has instead been awarded, thanks to the cover of DHT as the best dance song of the year.
- In the U.S., to advertise first season (2006) TV series "Ugly Betty", ABC aired the commercials using as background music, the song The Look.
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