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U.S. McDonalds to sell music again in special promotion; Former EMI boss is involved

The current issue of Billboard magazine reports that McDonalds restaurants has once again signed a deal to distribute inexpensive CDs, and mentions that the last time this was done, EMI was the partner with Roxette and Garth Brooks involved. Read the full story...


US radio directors praise “Wish I Could Fly”

Hitmakers Online (see the previous article) lists comments of Music Directors and Program Directors of American radio stations on the new releases. Read the full story...


TV4 working on tour documentary

The Swedish TV4 is working on a documentary on Marie’s summer tour. Footage for the film has been shot at least in the Halmstad concert, where they filmed Marie’s performance and the audience and interviewed fans. Read the full story...


US album cover revealed

The cover picture of the new greatest hits album for the US market has been revealed on the Internet. Read the full story...


Ask Marie for a live album

Judith, the organizer of the successful campaign to get Marie on tour, has together with James (of Gun-Marie Guys and Gals fame) started a new petition. Read the full story...


Billboard Radio praises “Wish I Could Fly”

Roxette’s first American single in the better part of a decade, “Wish I Could Fly” has already earned its first honor. Read the full story...


Marie’s tour: Per and MP special guests in Halmstad

Friday evening Marie had the second concert of her summer tour, this time in Roxette’s “home town”, Halmstad. Read the full story...


Expressen: “Marie is a brilliant singer”

“You can see that she loves her job and she really infected the people with her enthusiasm,” Måns Ivarsson writes in Expressen. Read the full story...


Marie: “Fans mean a lot to me”

Judith Seuma, the webmaster of tro.roxette.org got a message from the Swedish reporter Cecilia Parkert who wrote an article about Marie’s tour in Metro. Read the full story...


Marie launches her tour in Borgholm castle

Marie’s tour started yesterday evening in the Borgholm castle ruins. It was rainy, but 3,900 people still wanted to see Marie live in this exceptional outdoor venue, familiar to many Roxette fans from the “Listen To Your Heart” and “Dangerous” videos. Read the full story...


Marie: “This tour is for my fans”

The Swedish newspaper Metro has an interview with Marie who is preparing to leave on her summer tour. Read the full story...


Roxette accused of tax fraud

The Swedish tax authorities are accusing both Per and Marie of fraud for avoiding 2 million SEK each (approx. Read the full story...


Tracklisting for US compilation confirmed

Roxattaq USA website at www.roxette.net has published the confirmed tracklisting for the revised US version of “Don’t Bore Us – Get To The Chorus!” Read the full story...


Gyllene Tider and Marie in Aftonbladet

Just to let you know about two articles published in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Read the full story...


EMI-Warner merger in trouble?

Has the Time Warner/EMI Group merger hit a snag? London’s ‘Financial Times’ reported on Friday that there may be a counter-offer by a consortium of three unnamed U.S. Read the full story...


Pictures of Marie interview posted online

Judith and Jenny have been kind enough to put online some screenshots of Marie’s interview on Swedish TV yesterday. Read the full story...


Marie to accept award from Halland Academy

Halland Academy, an organization set up in part to promote the Swedish province of Halland, will be presenting special awards to three people for helping to make the province famous. Read the full story...


Aftonbladet: Marie’s compilation this year’s #1 album

Aftonbladet has listed the top Swedish albums of the first half of year 2000. Read the full story...


Gyllene Tider cover uncovered

Online record store Boxman has published the cover of the forthcoming Gyllene Tider compilation, “Konstpaus”. Read the full story...


Per recalls Gyllene Tider concert after Roskilde incident

Expressen interviewed Per after tragic death of eight people in Roskilde Festival on Friday. Read the full story...


Marie interviewed on TV next week

Marie will be interviewed in Blå timmen on SVT2 next Wednesday, 22.10 CET. Read the full story...


RoxAttaq planned to support U.S. releases

Thanks primarily to the work of Steven Howlett (who happens to be in the U.K.) Read the full story...


Marie appears live at Allsång på Skansen tonight

Marie will sing live this evening at “Allsang på Skansen”. Patrik Isaksson will join her on stage to sing “Det Som Var Nu”. Read the full story...


Screenshots from Marie’s TV appearance posted online

Judith and Jenny’s digicam have brought us a very nice set of pictures from yesterday’s Allsång på Skansen. Read the full story...


Managing director leaves Per’s hotel

Managing director Per Bengtsson is leaving Hotel Tylöhus, owned by Per Gessle and entrepreneur Björn Nordstrand. Read the full story...


Expressen: Marie and Patrik were a success

Today’s Expressen praises the duet of Marie Fredriksson and Patrik Isaksson performed during the Allsång på Skansen TV show yesterday. Read the full story...


Marie surprised at album success

Marie’s compilation album “Äntligen [Bästa 1984-2000]” has now been on the Swedish album chart’s Top 10 for 12 weeks. Read the full story...


Per’s music inaugurates bridge linking Sweden and Denmark

As we reported earlier, Per was asked to write music for the opening of Öresundsbron, the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. Read the full story...


Gyllene Tider releases 90s compilation

The Official Roxette Fanclub has contacted Per, because there have been rumors circulating over a new Gyllene Tider release. Read the full story...


Spanish language mailing list, RoxSpain, starts up

A group of people from the English-language Roxette mailing list have started a mailing list for all Spanish fans. Read the full story...


“Wish I Could Fly” to hit American airwaves in mid-July

Promotional copies of “Wish I Could Fly” are being sent to U.S. Top 40 and Adult Contemporary radio stations with the target “hit” date of July 18th. Read the full story...


Fanclub not sending tickets to orderers

The Official Roxette Fanclub members who ordered their tickets from the fanclub’s exclusive service and paid for the delivery, are not going to get tickets mailed to their homes. Read the full story...