The first time the US heard about Roxette was in 1984 when Gyllene Tider, a Swedish group, released the album “Heartland Café” in the US under the name Roxette. The very important music magazine Billboard wrote, “nothing much is happening here” about the album. When Per played in Gyllene Tider Marie was asked to sing a duet with Per on a Gyllene Tider concert. When Gyllene Tider was split up Marie and Per recorded a single called “Neverending Love”. The single was released in 1986 and was followed by Roxettes’ first album “Pearls of Passion” and a summer tour in Sweden.
In 1989 the album "Look Sharp!" was released. Roxette became famous in the US thanks to an American exchange student who brought “Look Sharp!” with him back from Sweden. He gave the album to a radio station and asked them to listen to “The Look”. The people on the radio station listen to the song and they like what they here so they taped it. When the song was played on the radio listeners called and want to here the song again. Roxette hade a hit in the US without having a single released. The Look was released as a single and after nine weeks the single reached the first spot on the Billboard hit list. After “The Look” Roxette has had another three US #1 hits, “Listen to your heart”; “It must have been love” and “Joyride”. Roxette has also had several other hits and toured the world twice.
