SVT welcomes Gessle’s offer
Written by tevensso on October 6, 2004 to Per Gessle.
STOCKHOLM - 
Reading yesterday’s Aftonbladet made Thomas Hall, project leader for Melodifestivalen song contest at SVT, bounce with excitement. “It would be a breach of duty not calling Gessle,” Hall says to Aftonbladet. Gessle’s song would in that case be one of the four “jokers” - songs that don’t have to be selected by the jury.
“It’s important to point out that the song is the crucial thing, not the fame of the songwriter,” Hall states. “We will contact Per and have a constructive meeting. It would certainly be a feather in our cap to have him participate.”
- Aftonbladet article (In Swedish)
- Eurovision Song Contest
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- Macca at the Apollo (December 14, 2010)
- Per Gessle one of Sweden's most played songwriters (October 8, 2010)
15 comments
tevensso (moderator) said on October 6, 2004 11:20:
I’d hate having Per performing a song, but writing one is totally OK by me.
Jud (moderator) said on October 6, 2004 11:29:
write the crappiest song ever and you’ll be in :D I mean those songs are even worse than summer hits.. they are ok for a while but then nobody remembers - except for Eurovision fans ;) *sigh*
daniel_alv said on October 6, 2004 12:05:
I want him to sing it...
He has one everything else that he can win, now it’s time to win this...
AURYTE said on October 6, 2004 12:14:
I prefer PER just writing the song, not performining. I don’t take Eurovision seriously.
Rich-UK said on October 6, 2004 12:50:
I would love Per to write and perform a song for Eurovision... I think he could win the contest with something like HKAK!
Magnuswesters said on October 6, 2004 13:27:
What do you mean about “this songs are even worse tha summer hits”, I mean...Per are not going write a “Eurovision song”, he are going to write a Gesslish song!!!!!
And he are going to performe it!!!!!
StillFar said on October 6, 2004 13:30:
I have to go through old interviews, I’m sure there is one in which he said he would NEVER do that and even made fun of ABBA for participating. Maybe it’s the age?
DaminehGessle said on October 7, 2004 05:40:
What is this about?! Seems like a foreign language to me!!! What is Eurovision?
But the picture: YUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Sascha said on October 7, 2004 07:00:
Per said he wouldn’t participate there with Roxette, but he’s already written songs for it in the past. Made the last place or something... so why not again? ;-)
AURYTE said on October 7, 2004 12:15:
Hopefully, this time results will be better. It seems that everybody forgot that as nobody reminds of it.
Magnuswesters said on October 6, 2004 10:24:
so great!!!!!!!!! I cant belive this is true=)!!!!! 2 DVD:s and Mabey a live CD, and then the Swedish “Melodi Festivalen”, I think he going ti winn everything, and offcaurse we are going to vote for him, we can have a summerhit from Gessle next year again=)=)=)!!!!!!!!!!