My childhood, teenage years, and 20s were defined by Roxette and you were the only thing that connected me to my past life and my birth country when we moved away. I’ve been feeling sad, confused, shocked, and heart-broken in the past few days not being able to make sense of this. Another chapter is closed and I’m having a hard time accepting it. It was a life-long dream to meet you and Per in Vancouver in 2012 backstage. I gave you some letters and souvenirs and hope you enjoyed them. I will cherish that night forever as it was the most amazing night of my life and will carry the memories with me until my last breath. You gave meaning to my world and I’m forever grateful for that. May you rest in peace now. Thank you for everything. Things will never be the same.
Dear Mikael and kids: I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you can find comfort in knowing how many lives Marie had touched. Much love to you.
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”