She still lives in voice, lyrics, music, words. Interviews, documentaries, images. And how powerful her production and delivery is starting from the early days. How strong and real, yet kind she appears in those moments where she doesn't have to pretend, but just to be herself.
She loved life, she dreamed big. She conquered many of her dreams. Yet, it feels she would've had so much more to give. Some much more to live.
At some point you have to move on, live in the present, bounce back. Just like she did when ever life slammed her hard. But her career, life, journey along with Per was unbelievable. And when ever one returns to those moments, music, images, everything comes back to life. Very powerfully. The next strong feeling is to realize that this history is in the books. Story ended a while a go and there won't be any encores.
And this brings me to the big questions of life, maybe stronger than ever. Facts that is somewhat difficult to comprehend. And keeps you awake at night every now and then.
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”