Roxette and everyone, please accept my deepest condolences.
Marie, I wish you eternal unity with God in Heaven. You are the best vocalist of all time! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the most precious memories of my life.
My name is Maxim. I am from Saint Petersburg (Russia). I want to share with you what place the Roxette group occupies in my life. It seemed to be the winter of 1996. And I was born in 1992. I was 5 years old. I still clearly remember one of the most vivid moments in my life.
I went to the TV and I was going to look for cartoons. And, as I remember now, the TV channel itself somehow switched to music and started broadcasting the song Roxette "Listen to your heart" (live At Borgholm Castle). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb1Bnk6USRI. I was deeply impressed by the atmosphere of the performance. This outstanding person was a blonde woman with a fashionable short haircut, whose name I didn't know at the time. And by the way I hadn’t known her name for many years before the advent of the Internet in Russia in 2007. Returning to the performance, I carefully was watching the brilliant expression on Marie's face, how she confidently was holding the microphone, solemnly was moving around the stage. All this naturally captured me to the depths of my soul, and every cell of my body at that moment was singing along with Marie. I had been standing there until the end of the song, and then for some time I was remaining immobilized by the Divine miracle I had just seen. I came to my senses when there was a commercial break and some other program started. This is how the great Roxette group opened up in my life. While at school, I had been listening to the songs "It must have been love", "Salvation" and many others. And in 2009, when I entered the university, I especially liked listening to your song "I wish I could fly". I had been listening to it many times all summer long before the 1st year of the institute.
I express my greatest gratitude to you, my dear and beloved artists. You have held a key place in my heart since I was a child. And so it will always be!
Roxette, Pierre and everyone who works with you in the music project Roxette, thank you again sincerely from the bottom of my heart! Marie, I will always remember your sparkling and majestic personality!
Sincerely yours,
Maxim Purygin.
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”