Marie, eu estive fisicamente próximo de você três vezes: em 2011 e 2012 quando o Roxette veio ao Brasil e em 2017 quando ousei ir até seu endereço na Suécia. Embora não a tenha visto, fui agraciado com um autógrafo dedicado a mim. Sua voz sempre me acompanhará, até o fim da minha vida. Obrigado por tocar tantas e tantas pessoas. Nós fãs jamais te esqueceremos. ❤
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”
6661 entries.
Cant believe she has gone , such an amazing voice , so very much missedxx
Marie,
We have never met in person, but, even so, you have been a part of my life. I’ve known your voice from childhood: it has comforted my sleep, my dreams, sad and happy moments. I cannot imagine my life without your voice any longer. Today my heart feels a little sadder, but I am happy for you. You have won in this life, and your life has given strength and courage to many others. You may never have the exact dimension of how much you mean to so many people, even those who will still be touched by your life and work. Today is the day for missing you, but also to be thankful for your life, which will continue in all of us each time we sing along with you: "It must have been good" ... But it will never be over!
My love for you and your family!
Marie,
Nunca nos conhecemos pessoalmente, mas, ainda assim, você fez e faz parte da minha vida. Conheço a sua voz desde a infância: ela já embalou meu sono, meus sonhos, momentos tristes e alegres. Não consigo imaginar mais minha vida sem sua voz. Hoje meu coração se sente um pouco mais triste, mas feliz por você. Você venceu nessa vida, e sua vida deu força e coragem a muitas outras pessoas. Talvez você nunca tenha a dimensão exata do quanto significa para tantas pessoas, mesmo aquelas que ainda serão tocadas por sua vida e sua obra. Hoje fica a saudade, mas também fica a gratidão por sua vida, que continuará em todos nós, cada vez que cantarmos em coro com você. "It must have been good"... But it will never be over!
Com amor, para você e sua família!
I was so shocked and saddened to hear about Marie's passing. I have been a fan of Roxette since your debut in the USA in 1986 with "It Must Have Been Love". My heart and prayers go out to Marie's family and friends and to all of Roxettes' many, many fans world-wide whose hearts are heavy and saddened by the news about Marie! Much love!!
Terima kasih atas semua kenangan denganmu, menghabiskan hari2 dan malam sambil mendengar lagumu saat itu.. Waktu yang telah lalu, masih dengan kenangan sambil mendengar lagumu melalui radio tape, kaset2 lagumu, dan siaran radio FM yang mendendangkan lagumu setiap malam sebelum tidur, belum ada HP saat itu.. Its all past time ago, but always in all our life...
Endless Thanks to Marie, I will always keep her in my heart. Cause of Roxette I started to study English and they are still my favourite band. I am also a cancer survivor and she gave me strengh in my way. I Will always remember you. I send all my love to the family.
Marie I loved you since in the 80s your voice was amazing
I hope it must have been love for number 1 for Christmas 2019 around the world
RIP dear Marie. Thank you for the music . My school days in the 80s and 90s would never have been so cool had it not been for your music.
Love and kisses
Thank you Marie, for so many years of touching, moving, rockin' music. I carried your tunes and my favorites songs with me from my early 20's to now almost 50. I have been such a big fan through it all. I send my thoughts, hugs and prayers to your family and to your friend Per and to his family. I can't imagine how hard this must be for them all. I have listened to all your albums I have over the last day since finding out and have cried through many. So many favorites and all so much more meaningful now. Thank you for sharing them with me and the world. You were loved. My top favorite for sure is "Wish I could fly" and I have been singing it all day. I know you are flying high with the angels now. R.I.P. Marie. ♥
Thank you Marie for being the voice of Roxette. I was lucky to see the band twice and the music meant so much to me. Rest In Peace , sing with the angels now.
Today was a very gray day. Waking to the news of Marie's passing brought a flood of emotions, tears, but most importantly great memories and music.
Roxette is still the soundtrack of my life, from the late 1980's to this very moment. I was blessed and honoured to have been able to meet you and your family in New York in 2012. You were always so kind and gracious with each fan you met and every hand you touched. I have always said, you were an angel and now you are up there with them.
This is a difficult time for many, especially your family, bandmates and Per. My deepest condolences to all of them. Wishing you all strength and love.
Marie. Thank You.
A Big Thank You for being a big part of my childhood.
The music was like a hold-on in hard-times.
Fading like a flower made me a true fan.
Not to mention your voice sounding like an angel everywhere i came.
Marie 4-ever !
Enrico(37)
I grew up to listen to your song .You are my most favourite female singer.
Your voice is so beautiful.RIP Marie.
I don't remember when I discovered Roxette; I was a teenager in England. I think Tourism was the first of their albums I bought and I bought it when it came out. Roxette was the soundtrack of my teenage years. I fell away from following them at university and missed Marie's cancer diagnosis. I heard about it afterward, but it was only on the last year nostalgia pushed me to look the catalog back up, and see the new stuff.
Room Service and HAND I missed the first time around. I missed them because I was a too serious young man in a toxic relationship and the pop of my youth didn't seem right. I was foolish, and I am glad I discovered them recently, and glad I was back a following fan before Marie died. To have missed that would have been too much to bear.
Marie was my first crush, I think. She was beautiful, yes, but she was bright and brilliant and strong and joyful. She was the inspiration for a dozen or more characters in stories I wrote; strong women with eager smiles and short blonde hair. It is still my go to prototype if I can't think of anything else.
I think, until now, now she is gone and I have to think about it, I hadn't realized just how important she was to me. Not her, really - but how she appeared. How formative and supportive. Roxette's catalogue was not just what I listened to, but the inspiration for stories I wrote and tales I told. In difficult times, I pulled out Get Sharp and it comforted me.
The catalogue always seemed to me to be Per's love letter to Marie; it taught me you could love someone without dating them or anything like that yet still adore them. I remember seeing a post-cancer interview with the two of them and a commenter on the video said what I was thinking; "she has no idea how much he loves her."
We all did, and I don't think I realized it.
Ave atque vale, Marie. I'll pray for you and your family. The world is colder for your passing.
Mary, I wish you a walk of joy, in this new cycle of your life, your beautiful voice, your song, your art, will now delight the creator. Thank you, since your songs marked several moments of my life, sometimes sad, many happy. Receive a kiss and hug to the sky. ?
Dear amazing Lady:
I found the light with your music. When I found there I was very sad because my life was high-low.
You have got me an own stronger force and that help me to be an extraordinary woman.
Your music has been my equilibrium of life. Thank you! Because your music has transforming my reality!
Una tristeza inenarrable. Gracias por tus canciones
Dear Marie, Thank you for all the great songs, accompanied me since my high school days in the 90s even till now, all these great hits, are still playing in my car. From ' Spending My Time' to 'How do you do', Joyride etc, all these songs have an unique way suiting into my life and brings back many wonderful memories. I used to play the music video over and over again When MTV was the hottest in the 90s. You were a great performer, singer and see those MTVs, does cheer me up when I was down.
Thank you Marie and Roxette for coming into my life. A strong voice to be remembered and a name forever in our heart. Love to you and family.
Mary se robo mi amor desde mi juventud, no deje de seguirla desde los años 90.
No sabía hasta hoy lo que es llorar por un artista, ella fue mi amor platónico
Esa persona con la uno sueña toda su vida conocer y abrazar por un instante.
Siempre quise ir a Suecia y tal vez conocerla y decirle en persona que dejó una huella
En mi vida y en mi corazón.
Hoy solo puedo pedir por ella y agradecer el haber vivido en la era de roxette.
Bendiciones y amor a su familia desde Cd de México. Siempre será recordada.
Gracias por haber existido querida Marie, vivo en un país muy lejos del tuyo pero que conozco, afortunadamente. Tengo familia viviendo en Suecia. Visitaste mi país en un par de ocasiones, pero tengo latente la primera, a principios de los 90, fue emocionante, dieron un gran espectáculo. Recuerdo cuando te pusiste nuestra querida camiseta de la selección celeste y cantaron fervientemente Dressed for success. Nunca te olvidaré.