I have been following Roxette's music since 1989 and their music has come along with me throughout all this time. Year by year, album by album. Expecting excited every new release. I always thought of myself as their biggest fan in the world, but I know we are millions. Marie's talented voice was out of ordinary and unmistakable putting all her soul in her singing. I always adored her. Roxette's music made me feel so fine even in my hardest lifetime moments.
I saw Marie and Per three times live in Spain: First time in San Sebastián in 1994; second time in Madrid in 2011; and a third and final time also in Madrid in 2015, few months before their last tour was cancelled. I was really shocked by Marie's strength to go on and still perform live despite her health, but that was her true passion and I admire her for that too.
I have also suffered the strike of cancer in my family and Marie's fight always encouraged me against the toughest moments.
She and her music will always be in my heart and my soul. And her voice will always sound the rest of my life.
I'd love to send a big hug and my deepest thoughts and love to her family in Sweden. With all my respect.
Love always,
Carlos, from Spain.
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”