Roxette’s “Stars” remix is listed in Dee Jay Promotions’ New releases page. There you can also listen to a 30-sec clip from the remix (this is the one without children’s choir) and tell your opinion on the song. At the moment, 95 % of the voters have voted for “Hit”!

EMI Chrysalis has opened their new website. On their Roxette page you can find a link to “Anyone” sound clip which appeared the be the whole song in streaming Real Audio format. There’s also a rather good biography text on Roxette:

Roxette formed in middle of the 1980s. They have sold 38 million albums and 15 million singles around the world had four number one singles in the USA and two world tours between 1991 and 1995. The album ’Baladas en Espanol’ sold a million albums in Spain, Argentina and Brazil.

 

Roxette are Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson two voices, two hard working and determined talents, united by a stubborn vision to reach out with their own warm and melodic brand of pop music.

 

1999 saw the release of a new album ’Have A Nice Day’, the first in five years, but the band are certain they still have something to offer to the pop world. ’People are dying for songs with good melodies,’ says Marie, ’And Roxette has always been rooted in the melodic tradition.’ The self-confessed control freaks produced the album with Clarence Öfwerman and Michael Ilbert an unusual step which led to a lot of tension. ’There’s never been so much fighting during a Roxette recording,’ says Per, ’But then we’ve never made such a good album either’.

If you don’t want to go to the site, below is a direct link to the sound file.

• EMI:Chrysalis
• Listen to “Anyone” (Real Player required)

Per Gessle may soon become the owner of the first international casino in Sweden. The casino would be located in Hotel Tylösand which is partly owned by Per. In the application for a casino the hotel manager emphasizes Per’s “unique contacts around the world” and ability to bring world-famous artists and entertainment to the casino. The application has been made in associaton with the city of Halmstad.

The Swedish government will decide in autumn who gets the permission for a casino. So far 20 cities, the civil aviation administration LFV and a couple of private companies has sent applications.

Update: The other co-owner of the hotel is the former TV4 manager Björn Nordstrand. Both Per and Björn has so far invested 60 million SEK (7.4 million USD) in the hotel. According to Nordstrand, the casino would profit at least 43.8 million SEK per year.

• DN’s Swedish article
• Expressen’s Swedish article
• Aftonbladet’s Swedish article

Due to “Anyone”’s poor performance in Europe, EMI UK has apparently decided to have “Stars” as the next UK single. First the release of “Anyone” was pushed back until July 19, but now the next single release is going to be as far as September 20, when “Stars” will be out.

In Holland, EMI is going to release 3 different “Stars” singles in 3 weeks, one release each week. Here are the tracklistings and release dates:

• July 30 (cardboard sleeve)
  
  
  
  1. “Stars” (Almighty remix)
     
  2. “Better Off On Her Own”
     
  3. “Stars”
     

• August 4 (jewelcase)
  
  
  
  1. “Stars” (Almighty remix)
     
  2. “Better Off On Her Own”
     
  3. “I Was So Lucky” (demo)
     
  4. “7Twenty7” (demo)
     

• August 11 (jewelcase)
  
  
  
  1. “Stars” (Almighty 7” mix)
     
  2. “Stars” (Almighty 12” definitive mix)
     
  3. “Stars” (Almighty dub)
     
  4. “Stars” (Almighty alternate 12”)
     
  5. “Stars” (X-treme extended mix)
     
  
  

EMI Holland is seems to be really sure that “Stars” will be a major hit!

This message written by Per can be found at www.haveaniceday.nu:

Pheew! It’s hot! No, it’s not!

So far the summer has been somewhere else. Not where I’ve been anyway!!! But…I do hope everyone is having a great time no matter what, and that you’ve checked out the cool “Stars”-video. I think it’s pretty amazing and definitely one of the best clip we’ve ever done. Anton Corbijn who directed it is such a talented and nice guy.

Also, as you might know “Anyone” is still around in some countries but the “Stars”-campaign is slowly taking over.

Don’t miss the huge amount of “Stars”-remixes we’re releasing.

Perfect for the garden parties on your block!!! Or on the beach!

Thanks everyone who showed up in London at the Party in the Park recently. We did read the banners! And yes, “It will take a long long time” is in the new Richard Gere/Julia Roberts-movie “Runaway Bride” and no, it’s not on the soundtrack for numerous reasons. And yes, we have started to write songs for the new album and no, there won’t be any tour this year.

Keep it up, Have A Nice Day, Don’t drink and drive, Be nice to small children.

 

Lots of love

From P.

Read more about “Runaway Bride” from the previous article.

Roxette’s “It Will Take A Long, Long Time” will be featured in the movie “Runaway Bride”, scheduled to open “wide” on July 30th.

Director Garry Marshall reunites with leading lovers Julia Roberts and Richard Gere for another go at the gold (Pretty Woman made nearly a half-billion dollars worldwide). Roberts plays Maggie, a commitment-fearing woman who has left so many men at the altar that a feisty reporter, Ike (Gere), wants to do a story on her. The two don’t get along at first, but will they eventually find L-O-V-E together? Hector Elizondo and Joan Cusack add color as Ike and Maggie’s best friends, respectively. Look for Runaway Bride to do the boffo business expected of any Roberts vehicle, even though some early reviews of the movie have been negative.

The Roxette song does not appear on the soundtrack album due, in part, to the fact that it is being released by Sony Records.

• Runaway Bride

The Swedish movie by Lukas Moodysson, “Fucking Åmål” did extremely well in Karlsbad’s International Film Festival, in Czech Republic. The film was awarded for the viewers’ favourite and it also got Official Jury’s special prize.

Gyllene Tider’s “När vi två blir en” is on the movie soundtrack.

• Fucking ?mÂl

Roxette had an online chat at Party in the Park website last Sunday. Nothing special there, but check out the chat log if you want to.

• Chat log
• Picture of Roxette chatting

Official Roxette Fanclub has put online the final tracklisting of “Stars” maxi single. Here you go:

1. “Stars” (Almighty Single Version)
   
2. “Better Off On Her Own” (previously unreleased)
   
3. “I Was So Lucky” (Tits & Ass demo)
   
4. “7Twenty7” (Tits & Ass demo)
   
5. “Anyone” (enhanced video, CD-ROM part)
   

This is the European version. There will probably be a different UK release later this year. The Australian single has also a different tracklisting.