Releases

The Per Gessle Archives – The Room Service Demos

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A new set of demos is released under The Per Gessle Archives on September 25. This time it’s The Room Service Demos. Previously unreleased tracks are marked with *.

  1. Real Sugar – T&A Demo – Aug 15, 2000
  2. The Centre Of The Heart (Is A Suburb To The Brain) – T&A Demo – Oct 2, 1997
  3. Milk And Toast And Honey – T&A Demo – Aug 3, 1999
  4. Jefferson – T&A Demo – Aug 11+16, 1999
  5. Looking For Jane – T&A Demo – Feb 15, 2000
  6. Bringing Me Down To My Knees – T&A Demo – Mar 6, 2000
  7. Make My Head Go Pop – T&A Demo – Dec 7, 1999*
  8. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) – T&A Demo – Jul 27, 2000
  9. Fool – T&A Demo – Dec 27, 1999
  10. It Takes You No Time To Get Here – T&A Demo – Aug 9, 2000*
  11. My World, My Love, My Life – T&A Demo – Dec 28, 1999
  12. Entering Your Heart – T&A Demo – Feb 16, 2000 / MP Mix 2025
  13. The Weight Of The World – T&A Demo – Oct 18, 1999
  14. Walk On, Lonely Eyes – T&A Demo – Dec 16, 1999
  15. When I Close My Eyes (No One Can See Me) – T&A Demo – Jul 24, 1999*
  16. I Don’t Care If It Rains – T&A Demo – Nov 23, 1999*
  17. Hold On My Heart – T&A Demo – Jan 30, 2000
  18. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart) – T&A Demo – Jul 27, 1999
  19. Miss You Like Crazy – T&A Demo – Jun 23, 1999*
  20. Heaven Is Just A Motion Away – T&A Demo – May 16, 1999
  21. Fish In A Bowl – T&A Demo – Apr 30, 2000
  22. Beautiful Girl – T&A Demo – April 19, 1999
  23. When I Close My Eyes (No One Can See Me) – T&A Demo – Jul 20+21, 1999
  24. Entering Your Heart (Long Version) – T&A Demo – Feb 16, 2000 / MP Mix 2025*

I Don’t Care If It Rains is the English version of Ta mej… Nu är jag din!, which was released on Gyllene Tider’s Finn 5 fel! album in 2004.

Listen to the demos on Spotify or on any other streaming platform!

At the same time, don’t forget about the 25th anniversary edition of Room Service!

Roxette – Room Service – 25th Anniversary Edition

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Roxette’s seventh studio album, Room Service, stands as a polished milestone in the Swedish duo’s catalogue. Originally released in the spring of 2001, the album served as the final studio effort of their original golden era before Marie Fredriksson’s tragic brain tumor diagnosis in 2002 forced an indefinite hiatus.

Room Service captures Roxette fully embracing the glossy, synth-driven landscape of early 2000s European pop. Tracks like the lead single The Centre Of The Heart and the upbeat Real Sugar showcased Gessle’s relentless hook-driven songwriting fused with disco-rock textures, while the enduring European hit Milk And Toast And Honey highlighted Fredriksson’s timeless, emotionally resonant vocal delivery.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Roxette’s Room Service, the 2001 album is being released on vinyl for the very first time. The tracklist has also been expanded with outtakes and demos, bringing the total to 24 tracks. At the same time, a deluxe double-CD edition will be released featuring no fewer than 26 tracks.

There will be two LP editions: a limited edition on marbled red/black vinyl and a standard black vinyl edition.

The 24-track gatefold vinyl editions come with an 8-page booklet, while the 26-track CD includes with a 20-page booklet.

Release date: 18th September.

Watch the promo video HERE!

Vinyl tracklist

LP 1 – Side A

  1. Real Sugar
  2. The Centre Of The Heart (Is A Suburb To The Brain)
  3. Milk And Toast And Honey
  4. Jefferson
  5. Little Girl
  6. Looking For Jane

LP 1 – Side B

  1. Bringing Me Down To My Knees
  2. Make My Head Go Pop
  3. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
  4. Fool
  5. It Takes You No Time To Get Here
  6. My World, My Love, My Life

LP 2 – Side A

  1. Entering Your Heart
  2. The Weight Of The World
  3. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart)
  4. Every Day
  5. Stupid
  6. Bringing Me Down To My Knees (Alternate Version)

LP 2 – Side B

  1. Entering Your Heart (T&A Demo – Feb 16, 2000 / MP Mix 2025)
  2. Milk And Toast And Honey (T&A Demo – Aug 3, 1999)
  3. Looking For Jane (T&A Demo – Feb 15, 2000)
  4. Fool (T&A Demo – Dec 27, 1999)
  5. My World, My Love, My Life (T&A Demo – Dec 28, 1999)
  6. Walk On, Lonely Eyes (T&A Demo – Dec 16, 1999)

 

CD Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Real Sugar
  2. The Centre Of The Heart (Is A Suburb To The Brain)
  3. Milk And Toast And Honey
  4. Jefferson
  5. Little Girl
  6. Looking For Jane
  7. Bringing Me Down To My Knees
  8. Make My Head Go Pop
  9. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
  10. Fool
  11. It Takes You No Time To Get Here
  12. My World, My Love, My Life

CD 2

  1. Entering Your Heart
  2. The Weight Of The World
  3. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart)
  4. Every Day
  5. All I Ever Wanted
  6. Stupid
  7. Bringing Me Down To My Knees (Alternate Version)
  8. Entering Your Heart (T&A Demo – Feb 16, 2000 / MP Mix 2025)
  9. Milk And Toast And Honey (T&A Demo – Aug 3, 1999)
  10. Looking For Jane (T&A Demo – Feb 15, 2000)
  11. Fool (T&A Demo – Dec 27, 1999)
  12. My World, My Love, My Life (T&A Demo – Dec 28, 1999)
  13. Walk On, Lonely Eyes (T&A Demo – Dec 16, 1999)
  14. Beautiful Girl (T&A Demo – Apr 19, 1999)

Pre-order HERE or HERE or check it out at your local music store, because it’s a worldwide release!

The Per Gessle Archives – The Have A Nice Day Demos

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A new set of demos is released under The Per Gessle Archives on 24th April. This time it’s The Have A Nice Day Demos.

Per says:

I had plenty of time to write songs for the Have A Nice Day-album. Roxette had taken a couple of years off after 8 very intense years. Our families got expanded with new beautiful children and I was also busy working on “The World According To Gessle” while preparing the new Roxette album.

I’ve included 26 of my demos in this collection. Looking back I find most of the songs became so much better in the studio in Spain while others could have been treated differently. Sometimes I actually prefer the demo! That’s the way it goes.

Some tunes also turned up years later in other projects, others have stayed in the closet where they truly belong! Hope you’ll find something you like.

Tracklist

  1. Crush On You (T&A Demo – Jul 30, 1998)
  2. Wish I Could Fly (T&A Demo – Nov 18, 1997)
  3. You Can’t Put Your Arms Around What’s Already Gone (T&A Demo – Feb 17, 1998)
  4. Anyone (T&A Demo – July 29, 1998)
  5. It Will Take A Long Long Time (T&A Demo – Feb 18, 1998)
  6. 7Twenty7 (T&A Demo – Nov 20, 1997)
  7. I Was So Lucky (T&A Demo – Jun 4, 1998)
  8. Stars (T&A Demo – Jul 9, 1998)
  9. Salvation (T&A Demo – Mar 24, 1998)
  10. Pay The Price (T&A Demo – Sep 16, 1997)
  11. Cooper (T&A Demo – Feb 10, 1998)
  12. Staring At The Ground (T&A Demo – Aug 29, 1997)
  13. A Girl Like You (T&A Demo – May 19, 1998)
  14. Being With You (T&A Demo – Sep 11, 1997)
  15. Little Miss Sorrow (T&A Demo – Oct 14, 1997)
  16. Always The Last To Know (T&A Demo – Jun 3, 1998)
  17. Ghost In The House #1 (T&A Demo – Oct 19, 1997)
  18. Anyone/I Love How You Love Me (T&A Demo – Jul 26, 1988)
  19. Happy Together (T&A Demo – Jul 1+2, 1998)
  20. Makin’ Love To You #1 (T&A Demo – Jun 9, 1996)
  21. Holiday (T&A Demo – Jul 16, 1998)
  22. Better Off On Her Own (T&A Demo – Jul 26, 1997)
  23. Only When I Dream (T&A Demo – Oct 10+13, 1997)
  24. Turn Of The Tide (T&A Demo – Sep 30, 1997)
  25. Ghost In The House #2 (T&A Demo – Nov 14, 1997)
  26. Makin’ Love To You #2 (T&A Demo – Sep 1+4, 1997)

Listen to it on Spotify or on any other streaming platform!

At the same time, the extended version of HAND has been further extended.

Roxette’s Baladas En Español for the first time on vinyl

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Baladas En Español is a Spanish-language compilation album released in October 1996. In Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries it was a commercial success upon release, peaking in the top ten of several national record charts. As of 2001, the record had sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide.

The original album consists of twelve of Roxette’s ballads, translated into Spanish by songwriter Luis Gómez Escolar. Escolar’s translations have been criticised by both fans and the media for being poorly representative of the original English lyrics.

Un Día Sin Ti and No Sé Si Es Amor were released as commercial singles.

In 2022, the album was updated on streaming platforms, adding Spanish translations of three songs from Roxette’s following album, Have A Nice Day, and Tú No Me Comprendes, an outtake from the original version of the record.

Per mentioned in interviews that recording the album was the record company’s idea. Rafael Gil helped them pronounce the words correctly, since neither Marie nor Per spoke Spanish. When choosing which songs to record, Per only selected songs for Marie to sing, except Vulnerable, which he sang himself. The songs sounded great in Spanish, even without knowing exactly what they were about. Mr. G says it was a very strange experience, but also fun, and that Marie did an unbelievable job learning all those Spanish lyrics.

As part of Roxette’s 40th anniversary celebration, Baladas En Español will be available on vinyl for the first time. The compilation will be released on 2LP in red vinyl (limited edition), 2 LP in black vinyl, and CD on 17th April 2026. Pre-order it at Bengans!

Watch the promo video HERE!

LP1

Side A

Un Día Sin Ti (Spending My Time)
Crash! Boom! Bang! (Spanish Version)
Directamente A Ti (Run To You)
Alguien (Anyone)

Side B

No Sé Si Es Amor (It Must Have Been Love)
Quisiera Volar (Wish I Could Fly)
Como La Lluvia En El Cristal (Watercolours In The Rain)
Cuánto Lo Siento (I’m Sorry)

LP2

Side A

Habla El Corazón (Listen To Your Heart)
Tímida (Vulnerable)
El Día Del Amor (Perfect Day)
Quiero Ser Como Tú (I Don’t Want To Get Hurt)

Side B

Soy Una Mujer (Fading Like A Flower)
Lo Siento (Salvation)
Tú No Me Comprendes (You Don’t Understand Me)
Una Reina Va Detrás De Un Rey (Queen Of Rain)

CD

Un Día Sin Ti (Spending My Time)
Habla El Corazón (Listen To Your Heart)
Soy Una Mujer (Fading Like A Flower)
No Sé Si Es Amor (It Must Have Been Love)
Directamente A Ti (Run To You)
Crash! Boom! Bang! (Spanish Version)
Cuánto Lo Siento (I’m Sorry)
Alguien (Anyone)
Tímida (Vulnerable)
Tú No Me Comprendes (You Don’t Understand Me)
Quisiera Volar (Wish I Could Fly)
Como La Lluvia En El Cristal (Watercolours In The Rain)
Lo Siento (Salvation)
Quiero Ser Como Tú (I Don’t Want To Get Hurt)
Una Reina Va Detrás De Un Rey (Queen Of Rain)
El Día Del Amor (Perfect Day)

Listen to Baladas En Español on Spotify or any other streaming platform!

Watch the official Un Día Sin Ti video directed by Jonas Åkerlund HERE!

 

Per Gessle releases the Pop-Up Dynamo! demos on his birthday

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Per Gessle continues the wonderful tradition, and in 2026, he releases the demos of the Pop-Up Dynamo! songs.

When I did an interview (part 1, part 2) with Per about the album in 2022, I asked him about the demos too.

PP: – Your demos in the “Look Sharp!” and “Joyride” era were quite produced. Now how should we imagine the demos for “Pop-Up Dynamo!”?

PG: – I made pretty produced demos. Hahaha.

PP: – Do they sound almost the same as the final songs?

PG: – Not really, because Clarence and Magnus, especially Magnus is really into the analog synthesizers and I have lots of them myself. You know, Jupiter 8, Jupiter 6 and Prophet 5 and all those synthesizers. So we used those, but when I made the demos, I didn’t use them at all. So it was Clarence and Magnus who created this ’80s sound. But eventually, I’m sure I would release the demos on a birthday. Hahaha.

PP: – Surprise, surprise! Haha.

PG: – These type of songs that are like pop songs, it’s really hard to present them on an acoustic guitar. I have to show Clarence and Magnus what I want with this song, which direction I wanted to go. So I have to make a demo, which sort of makes sense. The only song I didn’t have a demo for is the one [You Hurt The One You Love The Most] I wrote with Giorgio Tuinfort.

So that’s why you won’t find a demo to YHTOYLTM on this release.

It’s fun to read the interview again now that the demos are out.

The Per Gessle Archives – Pop-Up Dynamo! The Demos

  1. Walking On Air (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – Oct 26, 2019 + May 4, 2020)
  2. Me And You And Everything In Between (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – May 5+6, 2020)
  3. Headphones On (Sweetspot Demo – March 1, 2021)
  4. Watch Me Come Undone (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – Jul 20, 2020)
  5. The Craziest Thing (Sweetspot Demo – Feb 10, 2021)
  6. Debris (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – March 5+6+10, 2020)
  7. The Loneliest Girl In The World (T&A Demo – March 8+9, 2020)
  8. Jezebel (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – Nov 27+28, 2017)
  9. My Chosen One (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – Dec 19, 2019)
  10. Walk Right In (feat. Helena Josefsson) (Sweetspot + T&A Demo – May 27 + Jun 9, 2020)
  11. Sunday Driver, Yea (T&A Demo – Jan 22 + Feb 14 + May 4, 2020)
  12. Sunflower (feat. Helena Josefsson) (T&A Demo – Aug 26, 2020)
  13. Necessary (T&A Demo – Sep 29, 2020)
  14. Wish You The Best For Xmas (T&A Demo – Jul 25, 2022)
  15. When She Needed Me The Most (T&A Demo – Jul 26 + Aug 16, 2022)

Listen to it on Spotify or on any other streaming platform!