Per Gessle

Gessle & Ulvaeus invested wrong – again.

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Per Gessle and Björn Ulvaues invested money in an enterprise launched by entrepreneur, author and leading light of the Swedish Humanists Christer Sturmark, though they lost by one of his projects before. Now they have left music company Noteheads. It became a fiasco, Dagens Industri reveals.

Noteheads Musical Expert is IT-entrepreneur Christer Sturmark’s latest project. He with Björn Ulvaeus and Per Gessle’s help wanted to sell software which could have been used in music composing. The last year’s profits were very low – just 8,327 SEK. Seven years after the start, from over 700,000 SEK invested, there are only around 50,000 SEK left.

Previous partners decided to go their own ways. Björn Ulvaeus and Per Gessle refused to sign-off the most recent company’s annual report, even though they were members of Noteheads’ board of directors throughout the last year. Only Sturmark, the last board member, signed under. The two world popstars left the company in secret on April 29 this year.

It is the second time Björn Ulvaeus and Per Gessle lost their money because of Sturmark’s projects. Their joint company Fame Studios were closed down in 2003 after just two and a half years’ activity.

Source: Dagens Industri, Expressen.se, Realtid.se, Icethesite.com

Marie likes U2. So does Per.

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Marie Fredriksson was on U2 360° Tour concert in Gothenburg on August 1. Expressen published a little interview with her where she admitted that she liked U2 very much. On the other hand, Per Gessle posted on his Twitter, that U2 was great but not fantastic. I’ve seen them so much better many times before. Hilarious stage set though. Loved it.

If you want to download this interview, click here (thanks sweepi!).

Thanks to crashroxer & sarahdenrara @ R2R.

Tylösand Hotel’s 41 million SEK profit.

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Even now Per Gessle and Björn Nordstrand, owners of Tylösand Hotel, cannot complain about theirs profits – Hallandposten informs.

According to Dagens Industri the hotel’s last year’s turnover was over 162 million SEK, while net profit landed on 41 million. Because of the recession and fewer bookings, comparing to 2007 profits decreased by 10 from 51 million SEK.

The 50 greatest Scandinavian summer songs – the list.

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Here is the final list of the 50 greatest Scandinavian summer songs according to Per Gessle and Swedish music journalist Sven Lindström which they played on Sirius’ Nordic rox on June 12.

Top 50 songs:

Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry
Worry Sick – Edith Backlund
Hurtful – Erik Hassle
God morgon Columbus – Pontus & Amerikanerna
Sunny Girl – Hep Stars
Cup noodle song – Pineforest Crunch
Runnin’ out of gaz – Pauline Kamusewu
Words Enough To Tell You – The Mascots
The Sun – Melpo Mene
Electric – Melody Club
Dream my days away – Broder Daniel
Honey Honey – ABBA
Ser bara moln – Alf
En gång i vårt sommarland – Gunnar Wiklund
Do You Love Me – Amanda Jenssen
Don’t Call The Police – Moneybrother
Dream On – Atomic Swing
Do You Know – The Lollipops
Sommaren rasar – Bob Hund
Tjörn – Björn Olsson
Over ‘Fore It Started – Caesars Palace
You Can’t Hurry Love – The Concretes
We Got To Be Good To Each Other – Ray Wonder
Watercolours In The Rain – Roxette
Måndagsbarn – Veronica Maggio

Hit – Wannadies
Dimma – Dag Vag
Got To Go – Damn!
Different Sound (Feat. Malte) – Teddybears
Holidays – Brainpool
Nothing to Worry About – Peter Bjorn And John
The Girl and the Robot – Junior Röyksopp
Spiderweb suit – Sandy Mouche
Holiday for girls – Lisa Lindebergh
En ny tid är här – November
No One Sleeps When I’m Awake – The Sounds
Hunting high and low – a-ha
Bo Bo Boogie Pack – Annabee-Nox
One Way Love – Agnetha Fältskog
Segla på ett moln – Anne-Lie Ryde’
Lizard – The Mopeds
I can buy you – A Camp
C’mon – Per Gessle
Heartbeats – José Gonzalez
Don’t Hate On Me – Vincent
Pizza – Adiam Dymott
Stadsvandringar – Dungen
Every raindrop means a lot – Tages
Sail with me, come on and try – I love… – Pugh Rogefeldt
Solglasögon – Docent Död

Sommartider – Gyllene Tider
Cigarettes – Anita Lindblom

Sommartider was not Per’s selection, but Sirius’.

Thanks to the_tevensso from the official Son of a Plumber board.