PER'S JOBS
tinytim said on May 9, 2003 16:44:
I once read here (or somewhere else) that Per worked as a children teacher someday...is that true? I mean, he didn’t come from a rich family, so I guess he had to make himself to get the money he needed to buy all his GT’s rock stuff in the beginning...does anybody know where did Per work formerly?
tinytim said on May 9, 2003 17:48:
Truck driver??!!
And why he likes Ferrari so much them?
Generally people say that trucker will always have an affair...they can be faithfully married with their wives, but the have the truck as their step lovers...
Hmmm...mushroom? That explains a lot...hehehehe...
Santi said on May 9, 2003 20:17:
He and his friend Pedda used to play guitar for elder people at the hospital Vallås.
eva_roxer said on May 9, 2003 22:55:
Hi everybody!!
Well, I can add that the first Per’s job (as he told about in a German special program about Roxette called Viva Jam’95) was as a newspaper delivery boy, when he was very young (fifteen I think).
He also said that he is very slow in the mornings, and that he had to get up at four or five in the morning to deliver the newspapers, so one day he said: “I won’t get up!”, and he was fired for that :)).
At the end of the story Per also told that “maybe that was the first time in my life I was on radio”
ditroia said on May 10, 2003 04:11:
He used to do errands for his mother who was a seamstress/tailor.
He used to work in construction yards
He had to give up his teaching jo cos the kids kep askinf for Autographs.
Dave
Twilight-Ghost said on May 10, 2003 08:14:
Does any of you have the ’Joyride’ music book. The book contains the lyrics, notes, of the songs in the Joyride album.
It also has a little interview inside and Per said that his first job is working in a grocery store.
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Anyway, I’ve decided to type the whole interview for you to read.
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Q. In what way is the new album [Joyride] a progression for you?
Per: It’s really us this time. On the last album, there were a few songs that we did when we weren’t that sure of what we wanted to do. Fortunately, the songs we liked the most were the ones that became hits, so we just refined those ideas on the new record.
Q. What influence do you feel that your worldwide success the last time has had on the making of this album?
Marie: We suddenly felt that nothing was impossible. We came from a small country, where the general feeling is that you can never make it. And that feeling doesn’t just come from the outside, but from ourselves as well. So we hope that our success can inspire other artists and bands who are in the same situation as we were a couple of years ago, and that it shows them that it can actually be done.
Q. Do you believe in linking fashion with music?
Per: No, we believe in linking verses with choruses.
Q. Since “It Must Have Been Love” was such a hit on the movie soundtrack of “Pretty Woman” do you plan to get more involved in film music and movies in general.
Marie: It would be great to be able to do instrumental music, but that really is another world, and right now Roxette is taking up all of our time. The music Mark Knopfler wrote for the film “Local Hero” is wonderful. Doing something like that in the future would be great - warm, acoustic, folk-inspired instrumental music.
Q. What were your first jobs?
Marie: I was a gardener
Per: And I worked in a grocery store.
Q. If you weren’t artists, what do you think you’d be doing?
Marie: I love art, I think I would have been a painter.
Per: Art for me is just short for Arthur. I would have been an interior decorator.
yoona said on May 10, 2003 10:41:
@Ditroia
Per said that his mum painted china and she also teached china painting.
Åsa´s mum was a seamstress.
yoona said on May 10, 2003 10:49:
Per said about the mushroom- job that there were hundred of girls who collected mushrooms and Pedda and he weighted them.They had lists with the name of the girls and that how much musrooms they picked and if a girl was very pretty they wrote more mushrooms with her name than she really picked. :)
on_a_mission said on May 24, 2003 21:50:
I also heard he worked as on a pig farm and in a bacon packaging factory on a scottish radio station years ago. That may not be true though
Tanya82 said on May 9, 2003 17:37:
yes, he was a music teacher & a truck driver. He also dealt with some agriculture (sorted mushrooms)