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.
Swedish NGO BRIS (Children’s Rights in Society) has started an auction via auction website Tradera as part of the organisation’s 40th anniversary. The auction includes some Roxette and Gyllene Tider items.
Other items are a Beatles package, football team tshirts, many other CDs or signed picture frames.
BRIS supports children in distress and is a link between children, adults and the community. All support services build on volunteer work and financial support, primarily from corporate cooperation and private persons, and to a small extent governmental grants.
Traderahas set up a special website for this campaign, where the auctions started yesterday, March 17th and will go on until March 31st. The collected money will be used for various help actions for children.
According to Dagens Nyheter article a new Swedish musical is under production at the moment. Malena Laszlo, Christine Meltzer, Lisa Werlinder, Jessica Zander and Linus Wahlgren are the actors who will revive the Swedish 80’s hits in the musical “Leva livet” named after Gyllene Tider’s song. The premiere of this musical will take place on January 13th, 2011 in Chinateatern in Stockholm.
Tickets for the show can bought here.
Here is the list of chosen songs:
Gyllene Tider: Sommartider, När vi två blir en, Leva livet
Björn Skifs: Krama dig, Vild & vacker
Orup: Jag blir hellre jagad av vargar, Pojkarna på rad
Eva Dahlgren: Jag klär av mig naken, Ängeln i rummet
Ratata/Mauro Scocco: Glad att det är över, Sarah
Marie Fredriksson: Efter stormen, Sparvöga
Tomas Di Leva: Vem ska jag tro på, Vi har bara varandra
Anders Glenmarck: Hon har blommor i sitt hår
Niklas Strömstedt: Sista morgonen
Wilmer X: Teknikens under
Lisa Nilsson: Himlen runt hörnet, Långsamt farväl, Varje gång jag ser dig
Eldkvarn: Kärlekens tunga
Mikael Rickfors: Vingar
Attack: Ooa hela natten
Tommy Nilsson/Tone Norum: Allt som jag känner
Adolfsson & Falk: Blinkar blå
Docenterna: Solglasögon
Anne-Lie Rydé: Segla på ett moln
Ted Gärdestad: Himlen är oskyldigt blå
Peps Persson: Hög Standard
Freestyle: Vill ha dig
According to an article on BLT, Philip Zandén is going to direct the musical “Älska mig i natt”, which is going to follow the concept of Mamma mia! but with Swedish hits from the 80ies.
The premiere should be in the beginning of January 2011 at Chinateatern in Stockholm.