The new site of Tobias Henning, Crush On Roxette, has given The Daily Roxette their prestigious Site Of The Month award. Don’t forget to check out Tobias’ recently-opened site, it’s starting to look very good!

• Crush On Roxette

Per is having a summer vacation, and won’t be answering fans’ questions at www.haveaniceday.nu. He has left this message to the site:

Have A Nice Message.

The summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the street….

Yea, that’s exactly what I’m gonna do while taking a break from the hilarious “Fråga Per/Ask Per”-column. Party on and play some funky music and hopefully we’ll see y’all later.

Cheers P.

In the meantime, spend some time reading his old answers. There are hundreds of them!

• www.haveaniceday.nu

Gun-Marie Fredriksson of Roxette is now 41. She was born on May 30, 1958, in Össjö, Sweden. The Daily Roxette wishes her the best of luck!

Also, congratulations to Sweden for the success in the Eurovision Song Contest yesterday!

You can now download 80 screenshots from the “Anyone” video on the excellent Really Roxette web site. The pictures are very high quality (as high as you can get from TV picture). Worth of checking out!

In fact, there isn’t very much motion in the video itself, so put “Anyone” in your CD player and watch the pictures as a slide show. It’s almost like the real thing… :-)

• Really Roxette

Brainpool-bassist Christoffer Lundquist has recently got married. Multi-talented Christoffer plays also on Roxette’s latest album. Brainpool is currently on Swedish promo tour, but they won’t have any gigs before the beginning of June.

Live recordings of “Church Of Your Heart” and “Wish I Could Fly” will be released as extra tracks on the British “Anyone” single, due to be out on June 22. The tracks were recorded some time ago when Roxette performed at Capitol Cafe in London. The single will be again in 2 different parts. Acoustic Abbey Road recordings (excluding “Help!”) will also be released.

Four different teams are making remixes of the track “Stars”. Per doesn’t tell any further details yet.

Bad news to German fans: “Stars” video won’t be shot in Hamburg after all!

As you probably know a scene in “Anyone” video shows Marie drowning in the sea. It was too shocking to MTV. “MTV just recieved a different edit because they didn’t want to show MF in the water during daytime. They’re British, you know!” says Per.

In 1995 Roxette recorded 4 acoustic tracks in the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. 3 of them (“The Look”, “Listen To Your Heart” and “You Don’t Understand Me”, my favourite) has been released as single extra tracks, but the fourth track, a cover version of the Beatles-song “Help!”, has only been played once on BBC Radio. BBC owns the rights for the song and Per has earlier said that Roxette won’t be able release it. Now things seem to have changed: “Help might be released pretty soon”, says Per at www.haveaniceday.nu.

Per says once again at www.haveaniceday.nu that Roxette will release a video collection (apparently titled “Have A Nice Video”) before Christmas.

However, they probably won’t re-release their 1987 remix album “Dance Passion”, even though there was slight hope of getting it included in the forthcoming Roxette box-set. “I don’t think it will be on the Rox-box. We’re still thinkin’ about what to do with it, personally I don’t like the idea of re-releasing something that we don’t like”, says Per.

The box will probably contain the official release of Roxette Unplugged in 1993. “They’re all mixed and mastered already”, Per tells.