Roxette Return With New Album 'Charm School'
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Thursday, 10 February 2011 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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After 25 years and with 70 million albums sold, one of Sweden’s biggest pop groups Roxette steps back into the spotlight, a decade after their last studio album 'Room Service', to release a new studio album 'Charm School'. 'She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)' is released as a single on the same day.
Containing twelve songs from the initial power pop fireworks of 'Way Out' to the bittersweet closer 'Sitting On Top Of The World', 'Charm School' is an album many Roxette fans feared would never be made after Marie Fredriksson, in the autumn of 2002, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. But Marie managed to defeat the illness, and in 2009 the pieces of the jigsaw gradually came together when she was reunited with Per on stage to perform 'It Must Have Been Love' and 'The Look' during Per’s Party Crasher tour in Amsterdam. Before the fans knew it, Roxette made a full scale comeback as headliners during the ‘Night of the Proms’ tour in front of more than 600 000 people in Holland, Belgium and Germany.
“By then we started to think ahead and plan for the possibility of making a new album – an album that captured everything that’s good about Roxette while still looking ahead”, says Per Gessle. During the tour, the band’s hotel rooms were transformed into recording studios where the new Roxette songs took shape. The album was recorded in the south of Sweden and Stockholm with Clarence Öfwerman and Christoffer Lundqvist as producers, alongside Per and Marie.
'Charm School' tracklisting:
1. Way Out
2. No One Makes It On Her Own
3. She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
4. Speak To Me
5. I’m glad you called
6. Only When I Dream
7. Dream On
8. Big Black Cadillac
9. In My Own Way
10. After All
11. Happy On The Outside
12. Sitting On The Top Of The World
Back home in Sweden the work continued during the spring and autumn of 2010. The resulting songs included the sensitive ballad 'In My Own Way' - rediscovered gem from 1984 - when the dream of international recognition still was just a dream.
The newest song is the extremely infectious 'She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)', written during autumn 2010 and taken from the album as the first single. In between there’s everything that has made Roxette one of the world’s most radio played pop groups; the clinging melodies, the passionate delivery, the humorous pop sense and the unique mix of Marie Fredriksson’s and Per Gessle’s voices. All wrapped up in a musical package that is unmistakably 2011.
”For me the starting point has always been to write songs for Marie’s voice. She got this ability to make you believe every word she sings, and that’s why she brings the stories to life. As a songwriter that’s an incredible gift to be a part of”, Gessle says.
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