I'm a bit younger than the average Roxette fan (born in 1986) but Roxette was very much the soundtrack of my life and especially my youth. I still have the posters on my walls. I heard Marie's magical voice live at least four times. I love the new albums as well as the old ones. I have them all on my shelf.
Being in love with Roxette also inspired me to learn some Swedish and find amazing friends in Sweden. Or to write music myself. It truly changed my life in many ways. I don't have anything special or extraordinary to say, but just like so many others all around the world I'm extremely grateful for what Marie and Per have given this world. Music lasts forever. Longer than lives or even memories. Millions of people have found joy or strength through these songs and I have no doubt that millions more will.
It was amazing, seeing how Marie put her everything into those tours and concerts even after we all thought that was over nearly 20 years ago. I hope she put the same energy into time with her friends and family. She seems like the kind of person who would have made the best of a truly shitty situation.
I wish you peace of heart and mind. I hope your memories are mostly happy and your futures bright.
Remembrance book for Marie Fredriksson
Dear fellow friends, dear fans of Marie Fredriksson, dear Roxette fans, dear kind people in this world,
our friend Marie has passed away on December 9, and many, many people in the world are heartbroken and would like to express their feelings. Not everyone can do so on the social media, not everyone can do so by coming to Sweden and signing the official remembrance book laid out in Stockholm.
We want to collect your thoughts, your grieve, but also your finest memories with Marie here. Please write down what you always wanted to say to her, we will collect each single entry of yours, put them into one single book and send it over to Marie’s family to show them how much she made this world better through you.
Thank you.
[All entries made before January 1, 2020 were taken over for the book. You will still be able to add your messages now but we cannot consider them for the book to Marie’s family anymore as it has been printed by now.]
The Daily Roxette had one copy of the book printed early January 2020 and handed it over to Marie Dimberg, Roxette’s manager and a very good friend of Marie Fredriksson and her family, in Göteborg on January 20, 2020. The printed version of the book is nearly 800 pages thick and it has a white cover. Its title “Tack för allt Marie” (Thank you for everything Marie) is written in silver and red letters on its sleeve.
Here you see some quick photos of the book, sadly there has never been a chance to take proper photos of this one copy as it arrived just before the evening we headed to Göteborg for the “En kväll för Marie Fredriksson” show.
If you are interested, you can download a simplified version (the printed version contains a few more blank pages to separate the chapters, for instance) of the book with all entries right here.
The entries are sorted alphabetically by names, this file is also searchable.
Entries with non-latin character sets are at the very end of the book. Most URLs have been removed as they make little sense in a printed book.
Download the file “TackForAlltMarieByTDR.pdf”