i just can't .... ? my heart is broken, so much.. and hurts so bad.. she was/will be a part of me always, i spent countless hours listening to rox/her solo music .. i dreamt meeting her, never happened anyway.. maybe in der ständiga resan we will meet.
hope to see you there, Marie!! You've been LOVED by so many, you left us way TOO soon.
I told one of my roxfriends, your loss hurts like we're family, we 'met' you even before your kids, I feel sooooo sad for them. So if you ever read, your mom helped in so many ways too much people
So..today is one of those days, those black sad days, that this place looses one of those big charming souls, she's called Marie Fredriksson, and i always thought she was quite looking like my mom, if my mom would had dyed her hair blonde.
She had a true power to heal thru her music, with her voice, her sad songs moved me, she was for a very big part of my life a part of me, her songs were my songs, every fan become at some point part of that artist i guess (and i was a very BIG fan.. you can tell looking at my nickname, my nickname for 20 years, but before that i had my penpaling stamp labeled as 'rox-fan' next to my name so i guess i need a medal or something)
She was the half of Roxette, the main reason i learned english at a very young age, i just started studying english at 5th grade and i consider myself a little bit self taught as i learned english looking for lyrics words on dictionaries because i wanted to know every word they sang, i needed to know, i was OBSESSED with them, with Marie's powerful sweet voice.
I dreamt meeting her, actually both of them but never happened, still.. maybe in another life, in Den ständiga resan, we will meet again, because Things will never be the same without her.
I can't do a appropriate homeage to her, everybody is posting about our loss, but not everybody feel her loss as some of her fans, this is not about being at first row at her concerts (i wish, you know, but i'm not fast enough neither had money to tour the world after her) everybody feels different, and she was a big part of me for a long long time
And a tear falls slowly.
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”