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[[File:Roxette_9550.jpg|frame|Once an [[The Eighties|80's]] duo, always an [[The Eighties|80's]] duo.]]
Roxette is a Swedish soft rock duo consisting of Per Gessle (guitars, vocals, main songwriter) and Marie Fredriksson (lead vocals). They are the second most successful pop group to come out of Sweden, and considering [[ABBA|who's first]], that's no mean feat. Their height of popularity was from the late [[The Eighties|80's]] into the mid [[The Nineties|90's]], mainly because that's when their [[The United States|U.S.]] popularity faded and they went their separate ways. After a difficult period in the late [[The Noughties|noughties]] when Marie struggled with cancer, they announced their reunion and began a European comeback tour.
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Already successful in their homeland, their international breakout came when the song "It Must Have Been Love" was included on the soundtrack of the film ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' and the highly successful single "The Look" was introduced on American radio by a DJ who bought the record while on holiday in Sweden. The duo subsequently gained nineteen UK Top 40 hits, and four US number one singles. They continue to be popular in Europe and South America, whereas they'll always be remembered in the U.S. as being strictly an 80's band.
▲== Discography: ==
* ''Pearls of Passion'' (1986)
* ''Look Sharp!'' (1988)
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* ''Charm School'' (2011)
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* [[Artist Existence Failure]]: A near miss with Marie's life threatening brain tumour which left her with permanent disabilities which leads to...
* [[Determinator]] - [[Plucky Girl]]: Marie can no longer read or count, is blind in one eye and has some loss of movement in her right side - this has not stopped her
* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: One of their best known ones acknowledged the [[Ear Worm]] qualities of their songs with the title, ''Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus!''
* [[Intercourse with You]]: While rare compared to the songs about love and general happiness that make up the majority of the band's oeuvre, there are some examples of this too, "Sleeping In My Car" probably being the most obvious.
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