Roxette will be performing “Stars” live in a German TV show Willkommen im Fußball Land (“Welcome to Soccer Country”) on July 31. The show is going to be shot at Köln Arena and it will be broadcasted live on ARD/WDR at 20.15 CET. Tickets for the show should be still available.

“Germany’s least-serious magazine” Bravo (quote from the contributor, Roxeanne) has an article about Roxette which says that they will release a new album in August 2000. They are going to have a world tour after that release. “Everybody should decide him/herself how serious these mews can be taken”, says our contributor Roxeanne.

Official Roxette Fanclub has contacted Roxette’s management about this: “As Roxette’s Magement states, Per and Marie are considering recording another album before comitting to a tour, possibly because of their families, but nothing at all has been finally decided yet.”

Australian Roxette fan David Di Troia has contacted EMI Australia about their plans on Roxette. Here’s their reply:

The 2nd single here is Stars. This will be out within the next 2 months. We take it to radio in a couple of weeks. Here’s the “Stars” tracklisting for Australia (the cover will be the same as the European one):

1. “Stars” (Almighty Mix)
   
2. “Better Off On Her Own”
   
3. “I Was So Lucky” (Tits & Ass demo)
   
4. “7Twenty7” (Tits & Ass demo)
   
5. “Stars” (album version)
   
6. “Anyone” (enhanced videoclip)
   

Anyone will be the third single: Can’t confirm the tracklisting. We might do an exclusive Australia-only one

As for the spanish trax: We will not be releasing these in Australia - they may be used as b-sides down the track a little. Can’t confirm anything there though.

(This message was posted to Roxette Mailing List)

Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet is looking for the best summer hits ever. One of the candidates in the foreign hit category is Gyllene Tider’s “Sommartider”. The song is actually leading in the contest at the moment (with 28 % of the votes), but go and vote for it - now!

• Dagbladet / Sommerhit

There’s now some pictures from the scene of “Stars” video at www.haveaniceday.nu. This b/w video was shot in Stockholm and was directed by the famous Anton Corbijn.

HAND site’s brand-new “Bits and pieces” section reports:

Legendary photographer and video director Anton Corbijn was in Stockholm to direct the new Roxette video for “Stars”. The shooting took place in the Old Town of Stockholm, Solna Church and Steninge Castle. The video has a story in which Marie plays a queen desperately seeking a husband. She wears amazing clothes, sings with artificial ducks and goes bathing outside the Stockholm City Hall…among other things.

 

In the video for “Stars”, Per Gessle starts the video by being “transformed” into a Stockholm bum who gets tangled up in various adventures with the Queen of the video, Marie Fredriksson.

Thomas Evensson from Sweden reports that the video had its world premiere on the Swedish TV4 on Friday.

• www.haveaniceday.nu

Roxette 2000 has put online a sound clip of Roxette’s performance of “Wish I Could Fly” at Party in the Park festival. The clip is available in RealAudio and MP3 formats.

• Roxette 2000

According to OIRFC Latin America Division, Per has told in Argentinan newspaper La Nacion that the “Salvation” single is expected for a Christmas release. The single will contain a demo version of the song with Per on lead vocals.

In the same article Per tells that the Spanish songs due to release in September.

Roxette performed live for over 100,000 people in Hyde Park, London on Sunday. They played voice-over versions of “Anyone”, “Wish I Could Fly” and “The Look”. You can find some scanned pictures from Roxette’s show at Party in the Park website.

Aftonbladet reports that Per and Marie met Prince Charles after the show. “He was a nice guy to talk with”, says Per. “He said it was cool that Roxette played at the festival. Then he told us about his fund, Prince’s Trust.” Per also told that Roxette is currently on a PR tour. Germany and South Africa will be their next stops. (Thanks to Birgit Eichler)

• Aftonbladet’s Swedish article
• Roxette on Stage/Party in the Park

Boxman (a Sweden-based record store on the Internet) has put online the cover picture of Roxette’s forthcoming single “Stars”. According to Boxman, the release date is July 27. As you can see, Roxette’s trademark, stars, are back!

There’s also an interesting message at www.haveaniceday.nu’s Roxette conference. There you can find the tracklisting of the maxi and remix singles. Remember that these are not officially confirmed. (Thanks to Tobias Henning)

An anonymous reader of TDR reports that the first promo singles of “Stars” have been sent to Swedish radio stations. On the single there’s a remix of “Stars” with only Marie singing the chorus. In the album version the chorus is sung by a children’s choir.