The best singer of them all turns 56 today! The Roxetteblog team wishes Marie Fredriksson a wonderful day with family and friends.
For us, her birthday is reason enough to go back some years. (Photo: Kirsten Ohlwein/Kiwein)
You’ll find more videos on an article we wrote about Marie in June 2013.
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I always wanted to see Sandra Knospe’s amazing plec collection. Then I thought this is something that probably everyone else would be happy to see. So I asked Sunny what she would think about presenting her guitar picks on RXB in a separate section and she liked the idea. We immediately started working on this project and it took some time, but now we (Sandra and RXB) are extremely proud and happy to present the PLECtionary.
What other date could we find to publish it, if not Mr G’s 55th birthday? 😉 Have a splendido birthday in the sunshine, Per!
In the PLECtionary you can find all the plecs – except those few ones Sandra is missing – which are related anyhow to the Rox World.
Hats off to Sunny to take all these beautiful shots. I can tell it’s not easy to take pics of the metallic print on plectrums and sometimes even the base colour of the guitar picks is tricky to be photographed, but as you can see, Sandra did a great job with it. Not mentioning the trivia she shared with us. It’s always a pleasure to work together with PERfectionists. 😉 HUGE thanx again, Sandra and I hope to see the missing bits of your collection here soon!
Click here and check out the PLECtionary! You’ll always find it in the menu above.
While we are still badly missing the tour, I’ve put together some of those nice videos in which Marie is appearing during backstage rehearsals. You may remember Per once wrote this on Roxette Official: ”How could Marie go wrong with a band like this?” From these videos you can see that she didn’t go wrong with them at all. Pure fun!
By the way, once in a while it would be great to see some pics or videos of how Ms Effe is doing these days. Short videos from the studio where she’s working on her solo project would just be awesome. Until then, enjoy this set of lovely backstage moments.
Grattis på födelsedagen, Marie!
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On July 8th, 1986 – 25 years ago – Roxette have released their very first single called “Neverending love”. It is a high time to organize some international celebration of this fact today and tomorrow..
RoxetteBlog Team highly recommends you to:
Thanks Roxette Latinoamerica for idea and inspiration!
15,000 Romanian fans attended the very special gig that took place on Marie Fredriksson’s birthday. Looking at the clips, it seems like all previously planned actions took place – so there was singing of “Happy birthday” before “Perfect day”, “The ballad hits” hearts up in the air during the song and stars during “Silver blue”.
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
07. Perfect Day (Happy birthday before the song + hearts)
08. Things Will Never Be the Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
13. Silver blue
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride (introduced by “Ciuleandra”)
17. Watercolours in the Rain
18. Spending My Time
19. The Look
20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart
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