To Marie’s children:
I am a woman around the same age as your mother and I want to tell you, she was a rolemodel for me when I was young. She was really cool and tough and dared to express vulnebarity and real coolness at the same time. She was a woman that really was alive and a person to look up to, I had, for example the same hair cut as she had 🙂 In the 1980ies we did not have any talented women (or men) with so much courage, as your mother had, to look up to. I listened to her solo songs and I recognised exactly the feelings that she expressed and the Roxette songs made me feel so alive as a young woman back then in the 80ies. Songs like: ’Soul deep’ and ’Sjunde vågen’ and so on and so on, these songs made it possible to recognise a lot of feelings, sad feelings, deep soul fellings, happy feelings and so on.
Many thanks Marie for everything you gave to me. I have a child, the same age as your oldest child. You, Marie’s children, you must be so proud of your unique mother. All my warmest heart feelings to you and your father and I am grateful I lived when Marie was an active artist. She made me, in some ways, to the person I am today. She was a rolemodel for me, she showed, in public, that you can be a really tough person and be vulnerable at the same time and that is to be a real human being.
Ann Nordberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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”