Q&A session with Per Gessle on Facebook

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In a weak moment of Christmas humbleness Per Gessle has agreed to answer all Rox-related questions on the Roxette Official Facebook wall. From the yesterday’s Q&A session, we got to know that:

– Roxette considers playing in Mexico next year
– there are no plans for 2012 concerts in Baltic states
– Per has never considered releasing Christmas album
– “Charm school” track is to be included on “T2 – Tourism 2” album
– Roxette is still trying to convince EMI that it’s a good idea to release old concert on DVD/blu-ray
– the official dates for European 2012 tour will be announced once everything is set and done
– Marie doesn’t really use computers
– Roxette might play “Paint” on the tour
– most of 2012 concerts won’t have the full Rox-production
– “Charm school” is still “a fine album” for Per Gessle

– Roxette US dates are “in the can for September” next year
– Roxette will play in Denmark next year
– Cooper works at Burger King

E-Type covers Gessle co-penned song “Kärleken är evig”

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This may be interesting for collectors of songs written by Per Gessle. He once co-wrote “Kärleken är evig”, which was performed by Lena Philipsson at the Melodifestivalen 1986. The song finished second at the Melodifestivalen and reached number 3 in the Swedish single charts.

This song has now been covered by E-Type during the TV4 programme “Så mycket bättre – season 2”, a Swedish reality TV show where seven artists spend eight days together at a hotel in Gotland and each of them do their own versions of the other artists’ songs. The artists that participated in this season are Tomas Ledin, E-Type, Lena Philipsson, Laleh, Timbuktu, Mikael Wiehe and Eva Dahlgren.

You can watch the performance on TV4play.se, listen to the track on Spotify or buy it at iTunes. All of it if you are resident in Sweden.