Roxette achieved international success with their albums “Look Sharp!” in 1988 and “Joyride” in 1991, and had six top two hits on the Billboard Hot 100. The pair sold 80 million records ...

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, her manager has confirmed. The Swedish star achieved global success in the 1990s with hits like Joyride, The Look and It Must Have Been Love ...

Roxette sold 80 million records worldwide and embarked on world tours. They were Sweden's best-known band since ABBA in the 1970s and 1980s, and in 2003, Sweden's Carl Gustaf XVI awarded the duo a ...

The 61-year-old was a successful solo artist in her native Sweden before joining with Per Gessle to form Roxette, the act that went on to achieve global fame. The duo’s breakout single was ...

Roxette have just celebrated the 20th anniversary of their first US number one single, The Look, which was followed by three more - Listen To Your Heart, It Must Have Been Love and Joyride. Songwriter ...

The duo scored the second of its four No. 1 songs. By Gary Trust “The whole idea with Roxette to begin with was very much that I was the writer and Marie was the singer,” the act’s Per ...

Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson, a pair of Swedish musicians who were longtime friends and sometime collaborators through the late ’70s and early ’80s, decided to team up as Roxette in 1986.

Pop duo Roxette have been honoured with achievement medals by Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf. The awards, His Majesty the King's Medals of the Eighth Size with Royal Blue Ribbon, were given to the group ...

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 ...

By Gavin Edwards and Iliana Magra Marie Fredriksson, the spiky-haired lead singer of Roxette, the Swedish pop duo that briefly ruled the American charts in the 1980s and ’90s with dramatically ...

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, her manager has confirmed. The Swedish star achieved global success in the 1990s with hits like Joyride, The Look and It Must Have Been Love ...

Marie Fredriksson — the Swedish vocalist who scored a string of late-Eighties and early-Nineties hits with Roxette — died Monday following a 17-year battle with cancer. She was 61. Fredriksson ...