Got a sense of humour? So we’re sure you will enjoy those two drawings of the Roxette’s 2012 band prepared by Chilean fan – Sebastian Lucaveche (sebastian.lucaveche@gmail.com).
Well done, Sebastian!
Posts Tagged Marie Fredriksson
Marie Fredriksson gave a touching interview for programme about cancer done for a Russian NTV channel. Here are the quotes from Marie translated by Evgeny Perekopskiy and proofread by Celestte. This exclusive interview was shot during one-hour session at Marie’s house in Stockholm in December 2011.
WATCH THE WHOLE PROGRAMME (Marie’s part starts at 39:48)
Narrator:
A slim woman singing about changes in the microphone can actually grab the audience in venues with the capacity of 100 000 people. But when she tries to say the word “cancer”, she still feels insecure.
Marie Fredriksson
I couldn’t learn how to talk about it without worrying. I just sang the song “The Change”. Few people know that this song is about cancer. For some unknown reason I needed this meeting with cancer. It changed me totally. I started to listen to my inner voice, talk to my body. And the main thing is that I started to draw. (Marie laughs)
All that I feel and experience is in these drawings. By the way, this is Madonna (Marie points at her drawing). Not the singer, no. This is the Madonna that I imagine for myself. Who saved me from illness. Who rescued me.
The first drawings I created because of fear. I just wanted to understand what was happening to me. What the cancer was all about.
Narrator:
Looking like an alien, drawing alien subjects, for a while wonderfully Marie Fredriksson created her personal, alien theory of the origin of cancer.
Marie Fredriksson:
I started to think that cancer is somehow a new form of life inside of us. That people having those cells that then will become cancerous are born and live and then those cells wake up. And perhaps in the future people will be able to live with those cells.
Narrator:
In spite of the incredible story, from the scientific point of view, the singer of Roxette is right in many things. To transform cancer in chronic illness that won’t break off life is one of the directions of the modern scientific thought
Does anyone have idea who run this test in 2001? And why Marie said yes? 
Thanks to Lena Silbermond and Evgeny Perekopskiy for sending this.
In the Friday’s paper and online editions of Aftonbladet – the great feature about Roxette’s forthcoming tour and album was published by Jens Peterson. He was Roxette’s guest during several concerts in 2011 – in Poland and Sweden – and last week he also visited Roxette in the Stockholm Atlantis Studio, where the last recording session for T2 album took place. Here are the most interesting quotes from Marie, Per and pieces of information they revealed.
Big thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for all his help.
Last week Swedish public radio P3 broadcasted programme “Livet är en fest” (Life is a party) with episode called “Halmstads pärlor, del 1” (Halmstad’s Pearls, part 1). Yesterday it was time for the second part with such pearls as “Svarte Rudolf” (accoustic song sang by Per Gessle) or “Farlig Terräng” (early Flickorna… demo by Gyllene Tider). The first 20 minutes of episode are dedicated to Roxette’s career including songs like “Neverending love”, “Listen to your hear” and extracts from interviews with Marie and Per in Swedish.
Marie Fredriksson appeared shortly on the Danish TV show “Her er dit liv” (Here’s your life, DR) greeting Sanne and wishing her a fantastic night and ending the message saying she misses her so much! Sanne gets very emotional and talks a bit about what Marie has been through in the last 10 years, as well as herself and how they have both fought their way back to life.
If you want to see it, follow this link http://www.dr.dk/nu/player/#/her-er-dit-liv/24628 (Marie’s clip is in about minute 30, the video is available only until 1-1-2012).
Thanks Stina for the information!
As The Daily Roxette informs on its Facebook page Swedish public radio P3 broadcasted the 25th episode of “Livet är en fest” (Life is a party) programme called “Halmstads pärlor, del 1″ (Halmstad’s Pearls, part 1). This radio programme included some of early Gyllene Tider and Marie Fredriksson’s gems like “Parkens paviljong” recorded in 1977 and songs from Strul and MaMas Barn record in good quality. Old interviews with both Marie and Per were used, but nothing new – except great music cuts – were revealed.
Next Thursday at 9 pm CET – second part will be aired. The second part will be on the Roxette’s career.
As Daily Roxette and this press release informed, a picture of Marie Fredriksson taken by photographer Caroline Roosmark, is featured in a charity calendar that the photographer has created for 2012. The calendar is called Women & Men of the Year 2012 and focuses on children poverty in Sweden. The calendar can be purchased at Caroline Roosmark website and costs 169 SEK.
Marie appears on the May page of the calendar, as you can see on this picture.
As we have informed in the end of June, EMI Music Sweden is releasing “Orginal Album Series” 5CD boxsets of its most popular Swedish artists on 17th August. Despite expectations, only Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle’s sets will be out tomorrow; no info re Gyllene Tider’s albums.
You can purchase these two sets for SEK 159 each on Bengans.se – the official Roxette retailer.
According to information posted on the promotional poster these albums:
- are fully remastered from orginal tapes or CDs
- are in paper sleeves
- have orginal front covers
- have orginal tracklistings
As you may know from The Daily Roxette article, EMI Music Sweden is going to release the box sets with the orginal, mostly Swedish albums of Marie Fredriksson, Per Gessle and Gyllene Tider on August 17th.
Ginza.se has recently revealed the covers of the first two album sets (Marie & Per) and tracklisting for both. Looking at the price it is very likely that these albums will be released in cardboard sleeves with no booklet inside. There are no bonus tracks either.
Happy birthday, Marie!
May 30
All the best on your birthday, Marie!
RoxetteBlog.com team
Have a look at Marie and Sugarcane’s performance of “Ain’t no sunshine” classic back in 1995.
The first number of new Swedish fashion magazine StyleBy, which hits the streets today, features a fashion reportage about Marie Fredriksson’s style through the years as well a short interview with her. In the pages various models wear 10 of her outfits, with a comment to each piece by Marie.
Jonna Bergh, editor in chief and publisher of StyleBy, told us that Marie has stored all her outfits in a huge wardrove, “it was like a fashion museum!”.
The magazine is also available as a free app for iPad called StyleBy+. You can buy the magazine via this app, which includes a very cool photo of Marie which is not in the screenshots below.
StyleBy gave us permission to post screenshots of the article. A translation of Marie’s comments will be available in short!
Lotta Bromé has interviewed Roxette for her radio programme P4 Extra med Lotta Bromé. The interview will be aired (not live) today at 13:25 on SR – P4 channel.
You can already listen to a short part of it on the website. In this short teaser, Marie explains doctors gave her only half a year but that deep inside she knew she would make it. “But it has been a tough fight,” she says.
Swedish 50+ women magazine “M-magasin” is organizing a competition where their readers choose the most important women of 2010 in various categories. In “The hero of the year” Marie Fredriksson is nominated for her comeback with Roxette after the brain tumour. We think it is really important to show our support through this voting. Please, share this message with other fans and let’s make Marie as the hero of the year in “M-magasin”.
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