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CellarDweller:

Roxette Singer Marie Fredriksson Dies at 61




Marie Fredriksson was a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, pianist and painter, known for forming pop rock duo Roxette in 1986 alongside Per Gessle. The duo achieved international success in the late-1980s and early-1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and had six top two hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "Dangerous", "It Must Have Been Love", "Joyride" and "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)".

In 2002, after fainting at home, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. During her rehabilitation, she continued to record music as a solo artist, resulting in The Change in 2004 and Min bäste vän in 2006, as well as the non-album single "Där du andas" in 2008—her first solo number one single in Sweden. She and Gessle later reunited to record more albums as Roxette, who embarked on a worldwide concert tour. She also continued to record as a solo artist in her native Sweden, releasing Nu! in 2013.

Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019 in Djursholm, Sweden at the age of 61 from complications from a brain tumor.

Billboard Top 40 hits for Roxette.


Church Of Your Heart - Peaked at #36 on 4.4.1992

Spending My Time - Peaked at #32 on 1.4.1992

Dressed For Success - Peaked at #14 on 7.29.1989

Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Peaked at #2 on 8.31.1991

Dangerous - Peaked at #2 on 3.3.1990

Joyride -  Peaked at #1 on 5.11.1991

The Look -  Peaked at #1 on 4.8.1989

Listen To Your Heart -  Peaked at #1 on 11.4.1989

It Must Have Been Love (From "Pretty Woman") - Peaked at #1 on 6.16.1990

Sason:
It's very sad. It's been big news all over the place here. She was very loved here.

CellarDweller:
Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Hits No. 1 For The First Time Ever

By Marianne Garvey, CNN


Can it ever really be Christmas without Mariah Carey?

The self-proclaimed "Queen of Christmas" has landed the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for her famous holiday hit, "All I Want for Christmas Is You."  This is the first time the 25-year-old song has hit No. 1. The song's previous record was No. 3 on the chart.   Now a holiday classic, the song was first released in 1994 on Carey's "Merry Christmas" album. She was 24 when she recorded it.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/16/entertainment/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-trnd/index.html

x-man:
FR, Long time no read.  Check out band I SEE HAWKS IN LA, start with a funny self-parody of theirs: "My Parka Saved Me From the Glass."

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 24, 2019, 04:14:22 pm ---I heard the other day that "boomer" has become a derogatory name even for people who were born long after 1964. A writer at the weekly alternative paper, now owned by the regular daily newspaper where I work, wrote something that I guess some young person deemed fogey-ish and was called a "boomer." He's 31. So he's not even the oldest millennial.

--- End quote ---

Youth is no guarantee against fogey-ishness.

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