Roxette band members 2014
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Swedish pop-rock duo Roxette return for concert in Bucharest
Swedish pop band Roxette will return to Romania for new concert next year. The concert is part of the group’s “XXX - The 30th Anniversary Tour”, which will consist in 28 concerts in some of Europe’s largest cities, including Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and London.
The concert in Bucharest will take place on May 17, 2015, at Arenele Romane. Tickets for the concert will be on sale starting November 12, 2014, on www.myticket.ro.
This will be the band’s third concert in Romania. Roxette had a concert in Bucharest in 2011 and one in Cuj-Napoca, in July 2012.
Roxette, made of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, started touring again after an eight-year break, during which both members of the band worked mostly on solo projects. The band released a new album for 2011, ‘Charm School’.
Roxette are currently touring in Russia, The Baltics and Finland. This arena tour will wrap up in November this year, and then kick off again in Australia and New Zealand in February 2015. Then, Roxette will embark on the European tour, with its premiere in Milan on the May 10.
Roxette was created at the beginning of the 80s and became one of the best known pop bands of the 80s and the 90s. The band shifted its styl
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Roxette
Swedish pop rock duo
For the eponymous Dr. Feelgood song, see Roxette (song).
Roxette is a Swedish pop rock duo originally consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, both of whom were already established musicians in Sweden prior to the band's formation. Fredriksson had released a number of successful solo albums, while Gessle had been the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider, a band which had three number one albums in Sweden. Acting on the advice of Rolf Nygren, the CEO of their mutual record label EMI, Fredriksson and Gessle collaborated to record "Neverending Love", the first single from Roxette's 1986 debut album Pearls of Passion, which were both hits in Sweden.
Their international breakthrough came with the release of Look Sharp! in 1988. The album contained two Billboard Hot 100 number ones: "The Look" and "Listen to Your Heart". "It Must Have Been Love", from the soundtrack to the 1990 film Pretty Woman, reached number one as well, as did the lead single of their third studio album, 1991's Joyride. That album is Roxette's most successful, selling eleven million copies worldwide. They performed to over 1.5 million people during the "Join the Joyride! Tour". Subsequent albums included 1992's Tourism, 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang!,
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Roxette returns extract performs inspect Pori Malarky in July 2025
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