Many fans see the album as their best work, and it spawned four Thrown in, together with some strong melodies, making for an enjoyable The 30th Anniversary of Joyride will be celebrated with the release of a marbled pressed vinyl and. Many of the tracks on the Joyride album have a strong 70sĪmerican rock influence, but there is a good splattering of 90s pop Swedish group Roxette celebrates the 30th Anniversary of their third album Joyride, following the band’s spectacular global breakthrough with Look Sharp in 1989. In 1989, the single The Look became their first chart hit in the UK and across Europe, also topping the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. 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. Programmed By Anders Herrlin, Clarence Öfwerman. Music By Marie Fredriksson ( tracks: A2, A6), Mats Persson ( tracks: A5, B2, B6), Per Gessle ( tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B6) Photography By Mattias Edwall. Message left on Per Gessle's piano by his girlfriend. Mixed By Alar Suurna, Clarence Öfwerman, Roxette. 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. Although Roxettes commercial momentum in America was slowing down dramatically, elsewhere, singles from the Joyride album continued to become hits when 'Spending My Time' and 'The Big L.' charted in many countries. 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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