tevensso (moderator) said on October 30, 2007 10:13:

It will be released in English, and Spanish and German - when hell freezes over.
Sorry no, I doubt this book will ever make it abroad.

pwbbounce (moderator) said on October 30, 2007 11:20:

There is no demand at all, except from some of the people on the site, to release Per’s book outside of Sweden. There is no point at all. Maybe if Roxette were still active it would be a different matter, but to the vast majority of the world Roxette finished more than 10 years ago. I’m getting a copy of the book, but only because I want to. I know a little bit of Swedish, probably no where near enough to understand the book, but I’m still going to get it.

Gachy said on November 4, 2007 10:46:

I remember Agnetha Fältskog (the blond former ABBA member) had her biography writen by the Swedish author Brita Åhman. It was titled “Som jag är” and saw the light of say in 1996. And, indeed, the English translation “As I Am - ABBA: Before and Beyond” was released in 1997 by Virgin Publishing, UK.

Do you think there was more demand of Agnetha’s bio than Gessle’s? Well, it is possible now that I think about it...

Gachy said on November 4, 2007 12:48:

I have never read the Agnetha’s book myself. But I wanted to point at the fact it was translated into English, even if there was not a huge market for it out there. That’s a reply to whom that still claim there’s no reason for a translation of the Gessle bio, because nobody would be interested on it.

Jud (moderator) said on November 4, 2007 14:42:

of course Agneta sells more than Per.. Agneta is ABBA, ABBA is a cult band, they still have very active fanbases in Australia and in the US.. while Per.. as Tev says, nobody knows who he is and if SOAP was of any interest, it was because of Roxette, I could see it when he came to Austria to promote SOAP. All reporters were interested about was Roxette, when will Roxette record something new, what is Marie doing, Rox Rox Rox. Even when Rox was successful people weren’t much interested about him. I doubt his biography in English would sell more than the Look for Roxette ;)

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abysmo said on November 10, 2007 21:28:

Yeah, good idea. What about english .pdf file.

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sweepi said on November 11, 2007 18:06:

(Hope it’s “suitable” to post this in this thread...)

There was an interview with Per on today’s “Nyhetsmorgon” (TV4) about the new biography:

http://www.tv4.se/player/categories.aspx?progId=177357

If useful for anyone who may wish to save it for archive:

http://rapidshare.com/files/69009011/Nyhetsmorgon_11-11-2007.zip.html

:-)

tomos85 said on November 16, 2007 09:36:

For those who haven’t bought the book yet, but want to read or just look how it looks like - it’s possible to read over 40 pages from Per’s biography on AdLibris website:

http://www.adlibris.se/bookbrowser/default.aspx?isbn=9100117390

Enjoy!

tevensso (moderator) said on November 16, 2007 10:52:

Ha ha ha, sure. I could translate it. That’ll cost A LOT so sadly I can’t do it. Sorry. :)

AURYTE said on November 20, 2007 05:48:

Thank you, Sandra for the link :P

As for the translation of the book, well, I’m Lithuanian, so my work doesn’t cost that much as the Swede’s work :P However, I’m not the native speaker, and my Swedish is not that good to translate the whole book “Att Vara Per Gessle”, though I understand most of it even without dictionary.

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tomos85 said on November 20, 2007 07:28:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesliv/article1276202.ab

Per’s biography gets 4 out of 5. Really nice review.

pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 20, 2007 09:18:

I agree with Rossyrox. The only way were are EVER going to get an English version of this book is if some kind Swede makes a translation for us. As someone else said, this is going to be a full time job, and I don’t think it’d be an easy task either!!

AURYTE said on November 20, 2007 17:22:

I was about to suggest the same as tomos85: if we could arrange a group of people who are able and interested in translating the book into English, then it would be a bit less work and it would go faster. Though I think, that it will be quite difficult to find 10 or so interested people.

PS And after all, would it be legal to translate the book into English?

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quagmir said on November 24, 2007 14:28:

well years ago (when I was really crazy about Rox), I did translate their bio (The Book, 1992) from german to english, and I did it for free. Because I loved’em and thought it could help the non-swedish and non-german fans... and I’m neither german nor english, so maybe if my swedish was better I’d do it again, but unfortunately it isn’t so maybe some Swedes will do it one day ;)
PS : I’m sill crazy about Rox, but a lil older ;)

Emil__BG said on November 25, 2007 09:43:

It’s the same with “no video clip” strategy.
Even the poorest singer makes videoclips in 2007-just to give to his fans “the hole package” and full satisfaction of his new singles.

Emil__BG said on November 25, 2007 10:53:

Good work quagmir !
Yes–do you still have your translation of the 1992 book?
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quagmir said on November 25, 2007 16:59:

you can find the translation on the littlemarie site, http://www.littlemarie.net
just go to the “extras” section, and browse down, there you’ll find it ; it’s been approved by the author.

AURYTE said on November 27, 2007 05:18:

Well, back to the content of the book :) I’ve never known that Per was (is?) is such a good football player :P

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nusaderenda said on December 4, 2007 08:22:

Yes, it mentions that Per couldn’t understand why Marie was having a baby with everything happening around Roxette. He was 110% focused on Roxette, and didn’t understand why she needed time to stay at home etc. He understood first when he had a child himself.

I’ve heard rumours about this before, but I was not sure if I could trust them, I think it sounds pretty harsh, but in the book Per says so himself. Clarence also mentions that noone understood Maries needs, because none of the others involved in Roxette had any children, but a couple of years later all of them had, and they understood better.

The tension was not all about children, I think, but I have read the chapter only briefly, so I can get back to more details when I’ve finished the book (it’s big and heavy, you know!). I haven’t discovered anything I didn’t really know, but everything is explained more detailed and thoroughly.