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Roxette to support Queen Silvia’s “World Childhood” radio campaign

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Roxette are lending their voices to a radio campaign in support of Childhood’s global commitment to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. The 30-second spots are airing across numerous SIRIUS XM radio channels. The campaign will be launched today in New York City by Queen Silvia of Sweden.

Among the participants: Music icons Frida and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA, and Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson from Roxette; award-winning director Lasse Hallstrom; internationally acclaimed actresses Lena Olin and Isabella Rossellini; Henrik Lundqvist, All-Star goalie for the NHL’s New York Rangers; world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, chef/owner of New York City’s forthcoming Red Rooster Harlem and winner of Top Chef Masters and professional golfer Jesper Parnevik.

“World Childhood Foundation” is dedicated to serving the most vulnerable children worldwide, especially those who are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation. Special attention is given to girls and young mothers. Since its inception, Childhood has granted almost 50 million US dollars to more than 500 projects worldwide, and currently supports over 115 programs in 16 countries including Belarus, Brazil, Estonia, Cambodia, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, Thailand, Germany, Ukraine and the United States.

Read more: WCF homepage | Press release

Update, October 28: Listen to Roxette’s spot as MP3!

Thanks to AbominableSnowman for the link.

Roxette Lyrics Studio for iPhone is not official Roxette release.

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UPDATE FROM PER GESSLE (October 8th):

The Roxette iPhone app called Roxette Lyrics Studio is not offical or approved by Roxette and will therefore be removed from iTunes.

Here is the message from Krystian Szczodrowski that we got the other day.

Good news for all Apple fans. Roxette APP is available on your iPhone. So don’t waste your time searching countless websites for Roxette ‘s lyrics. Roxette Lyrics Studio it’s official, authorized and licensed lyrics for all Roxette songs. Roxette Lyrics Studio features lyrics and videos of Roxette’s coolest tracks. You can learn every word of Roxette’s best songs and sing along with his videos on iPhone, iPod, iPad.

Functions:

• Viewing: watch YouTube videos with the Roxette Lyrics Studio
• Favorites: add songs to a list of favorites
• Searching: search the Roxette Lyrics Studio by song names or lyrics
• Sharing: share with friends via Facebook, e-mail and SMS
• Status Updates: publish up to 150 characters of a lyric as your status on Facebook or Twitter
• Application updates: ongoing updates of the artist’s catalog

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How many babies were named after Roxette in USA?

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I heard “The Look” by Roxette the other day, and it made me wonder: Were any babies named Roxette back when the Swedish pop duo was churning out #1 singles?

The answer is yes, about 30 babies were named Roxette during those years:

* 1989: 5 baby girls named Roxette
* 1990: 6 baby girls named Roxette
* 1991: 5 baby girls named Roxette
* 1992: 7 baby girls named Roxette
* 1993: 6 baby girls named Roxette

Where did the band get its name? From a song — “Roxette” by British rock band Dr. Feelgood. (Not to be confused with “Dr. Feelgood” by American rock band Mötley Crüe.)

Source: Nancy.cc

“Kung av Tylösand” exhibition in Söndrum

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Arrival in Halmstad and one day left until the show. Fortunately we read about the “Kung av Tylösand” exhibition in Söndrum’s library and decided to go there. We saw around 30-40 pictures from the past – mostly from Per’s solo tour in 2003 and the Crash!Boom!Bang tour in 1994 – taken by Dan Karlsson.

Fortunately we didn’t have to pay any entrance fee because it wouldn’t have been worth it. The pictures didn’t reveal any new motives, persons, situations – whatever. So after we saw five or six we knew there wouldn’t be anything new to watch and laughed about the fact that they sold the photos for 1200 SEK (more expensive pictures cost 3000 SEK). I could win a contest promising that every long-term-fan has better photos on his/her computer. For those who couldn’t go: you didn’t miss a thing – maybe a good laugh about the high and totally unrealistic prices. If you have any good Gessle photos on your compter you should try to sell them somewhere, you could maybe make a killing..

Here you see some pictures taken at the exhibition by myself.