david77 said on March 17, 2003 14:37:

I’ve been a Rox fan for 14 years. I was 11 when I heard dressed for success for the first time. My brother had the Look Sharp album at home because a friend of his gave him the album. But he didn’t like it very much and it was me who couldn’t help listening to it all the time.

Later on I saw the Listen to your heart video. It was when I saw Per and Marie acting for the first time in my life and I realised it was the best pop group. I think it was that moment when I became a fan.

wendy said on March 17, 2003 20:28:

euh....well,my sis had a MC(copy) from Joyride,i was 9 years old that time,i found them so cool,especially the song “Hotblooded” so,i stole the MC,and always played it,i put the window wide open,and waited ’till Per or Marie would pass my house,cuz i believed they lived in Belgium :DDD
I was even in love with Per :p

harriej said on March 17, 2003 20:44:

My sister gave me a tape with some songs of roxette on it. Since then I am a fan.
It were 3 Look Sharp-Songs:

- Dressed For Succes
- Dangerous
- Listen to your Heart.

Escpecially Dangerous made me love Roxette.

colinvdbel (moderator) said on March 17, 2003 20:52:

I saw How Do You Do! on TV, and realised I had I Remember You on a compilation CD somewhere. So I started listening to I remember You, just a FANTASTIC song! Then I taped Joyride...and eventually got Look Sharp and Joyride...then there’s was no stopping me anymore...

rox-kuryliw said on March 17, 2003 22:38:

When i heard roxette and saw marie on the bed in the little black dress for ’wish i could fly’ on mtv. i thought she was hot, ;-D

powerpoplarry said on March 18, 2003 00:29:

OK, I discovered Rox when I was in college in 1989, when “The Look” cracked the US Billboard charts and the radio!! Their powerpop sound jumped out at me right away, and when “Look Sharp” had a US release in 1989, that was one of the first 5 CDs I had ever bought!! Along with my first CD player!! I’ve been a devoted follower ever since, even meeting Per 3 times, and Marie twice. The first time I met Per, he was standing all alone, hanging out in the Sam Goody in NYC next door to the building of my workplace, during my lunchbreak!! So just me and Per were talking for a halfhour, and no one was paying attention, or knew who he was!! It was then that I told him how much I enjoyed “Look Sharp”, and how I thought he was a genius songwriter, and he was very humble and thankful!!

I’ve been a devoted, loyal Rox fan all this time since 1989!!

Yashar said on March 18, 2003 07:06:

It began when I heard IMHBL.And It became obvious when I heard “Don’t bore us,...”.
Glorious days!

@Aaso:[Salam! Man hamin alan dashtam to threade khodemoon mineveshtam ke to chera to in ghesmat matlab neminevisi. Mesle inke delhamoon be ham rah dare]

Aaso said on March 18, 2003 12:33:

2 Yashar [oh hey... salam khoobi?? are man bishtar too off topic hal mikonam. midooni oonja adamaie bahaltari mian albate hamashoon inja ham mian. vali oonja adam rahat tare. inja hame asa ghoort dadan;)]

kiwijazza said on March 18, 2003 12:54:

For me it was back in 1993. My mother had this compilation album at the time, The Love Connection, and it had IMHBL on it. It was the first and only item we had with Roxette on it, so I constantly played it. After a while it got worn out. So much, in fact, it’s still stuck in my stereo as I type this!

I can remember hearing some big Roxette singles before ’93, but I never really got into them until we actually had a song in our collection. My first Roxette album was Tourism, that same year. And here I am 10 years later. :)

Small-talker said on March 18, 2003 13:25:

1992... Tourism was the first album i ever bought!!!

My uncle was a fan, i was looking through his CD collection and I seen Tourism - listened to it and loved it... so I bought it!

rafael said on March 18, 2003 22:03:

In 1989 when I saw them performing The Look at the german chart show Formel 1.

Roxrider_USA said on March 19, 2003 01:33:

I became a Rox fan in 1995 when i found the album DBUGTTC in a bus that was going from Rio de Janeiro - RJ to Petropolis - RJ, which is a mountain city in Brazil. Fell in love when i listened to the whole album and loved HDYD, LTYH, AU and SIMC. Later on, a couple of years i further fell in love when i listened to their spanish single on the radio in Brazil, even though people in Brazil speak portuguese. Once i got to the US i bought all of their albums. Well, almost all. I still don’t have POP and Ratities.

Later!
Carlos E., New York.

Yashar said on March 19, 2003 15:06:

@Aaso:Na baba injooriam ke to migi nist.

Twilight-Ghost said on March 20, 2003 14:25:

When I was younger, I like their songs (LTYH, IMBHL, Dangerous, The Look, SMT, etc.) but I didn’t know they were all Roxette’s.
When I found out those songs are from the same artist, I thought Roxette are really good. So far, I love all of their songs. This was in 1995 (or 96 - can’t remember) when I was 15. So, when they released DBUGTTC; their greatest hits, I went and bought it.

I went and bought their album because of six songs that I like and when I finally got to listen to their entire album I discovered more songs that I like and didn’t know it was theirs. I was also impressed when I found out that they wrote their own stuff. After that, I became a big fan.
But when they didn’t release an album for so long and I haven’t heard much about them here. I wasn’t a big fan as I was.
When I’ve discovered that they’ve relased HAND and then later RS, I didn’t buy it. Because I didn’t care anymore, but deep down I still have great respect for them because they are still together as a band.

But then late last year, I’ve discovered their DVD (all videos ever made..), I bought it because even though I wasn’t a big fan then, I still wanted to watch all their videos, because I didn’t get to see all of them. After watching their videos and discovering their new songs (from HAND and RS albums), I realise I still love their music, and I admire Per and Marie.
So, I became a die-hard fan again and started net-surfing the web about them and I discovered this site.

.....and now I’m back and a big fan of Roxette. Hope I’ll keep on roxing..........

I just realised, there is something about compilation of Roxette materials that made me a fan........ I mean, I became a big fan when I bought their greatest hits CD... and when it cooled off... it took a DVD of all their videos for me to discover them again.

Mind you, the way I discovered the DVD in the stores was by accident... I wasn’t suppose to be there that time (... a long story).

i_jera said on March 21, 2003 07:19:

with HAND / RS

hotblooder said on March 21, 2003 08:03:

Since the biggest hit song played on my country’s radio station IMHBL. It was 1990. And Looksharp is my 1st collection.

antz said on March 21, 2003 12:46:

In the look sharp days. Look Sharp was my very first album that I bought with my own money! At that time I only knew Dangerous and Listen to your Heart. I didnt know anything about them, I hadnt even seen their videos. So I used to go to the corner shop and read all the articles about them in the pop magazines....*sigh*...such fond memories!

Salvation7-20-7 said on March 22, 2003 06:26:

Wow, I can’t remember this topic ever being discussed (but it probably already has, given how often I log on these days), but let’s see...

I loved them back when they first came out (in the US) with ’The Look’ although I never knew their name. And then with ’Joyride’ and ’It Must Have Been Love’ in ’91. Again I couldn’t remember their name.

It wasn’t until a few years later that a friend gave me his copy of ’Look Sharp!’ and I fell in love with them all over again, and it has continued to this day. I went out after that and bought ’Joyride’ and ’Tourism’ and listened to them until my tape player ate them. :)

Now I’m wearing grooves into my CDs!! :)

Cheers,
Salvation7-20-7

zaine said on March 22, 2003 20:01:

erm, i became a fan about 5 months ago when I saw them perform ’the look’ on top of the pops 2. I knew the song and remembered it and bought me back some good memories. I also fell in love with how cute per was so decided to do some research and to try get a pic of him from the net. I suddenly found how amazing this band were and stole my dads rox collection (LS, joyride, CBB and tourism!) and soon became obsessed! I did a speach at school on ’something close to us’ and did rox and found it to be the perfect chance to catch up on them!

But really I have been a fan all my life, I just not known it. My dad always used to play it in the car, when we came home from church and at bedtime etc but then it was just music. now it is my life. :)