It will get a 4-LP box set and a 3-CD set anniversary release in autumn. Sven tells anniversaries come closer and closer and Per’s reaction is that every time he realizes it, he thinks ”oh, we have to make an anniversary edition!” Now it’s 30 years since Roxette released their 3rd album, Joyride. PG tells it means he is getting experienced. Sven tells Per has been around for more than 40 years and kicked off at the age of 20 or so. G tells it’s just because John was already hanging there and when he got Paul’s poster, he just put it under John’s. Sven tells John is above Paul and asks Per if it’s a sign for something.
There is also a great Anton Corbijn photography of Pete Townshend sitting in a London cab. Sven mentions there is a John Lennon poster behind him, Per adds there is a signed poster from Sir Paul McCartney which he got as a birthday present a couple of years ago. There are pictures of Per’s icons in the kitchen. It’s fun to learn music, and for a Roxette fan, it’s much more fun to observe Per’s song writing.Per Gessle and Sven Lindström celebrated Joyride’s 30th anniversary in Per’s kitchen in Stockholm in the June episode of Nordic Rox on Sirius XM last night. The first verse structure comprises of the same pattern.
OMG, The Look is ‘A G D’ and so is She’s got nothing on!!! I randomly took my notes of Roxette Chords, and played “She’s got nothing on (but the radio)” and realised: I learned to play It Must Have Been Love and The Look, then started to understand things which I was unable to note on a keyboard. I recently started to play the Ukulele, and who can help me have a little chord control than those beautiful melodies Per wrote for Roxette? I got to learn that his favourite key is of G, but for that, I need to do a little research. But that is still quite an achievement from my end to be very honest, and at times, I get a tiny bit proud of myself too.Ģ of the most famous Roxette songs are in A. I can’t even play anything properly except chords to make a song sound full. And so much more.īeing 21, I was unable to get my ears trained for deeper musical understanding, and till now, I can’t really switch chords like mostly everyone who basically know the basics of music. How he kept them simple, how he liked to have solos, how he likes to change the key from the verse to the chorus, how he liked to have the song have a different key in the final chorus, how his over all song writing changed from Pearls of Passion to Traveling, both musically and lyrically, and how differently both Per and Marie are when it comes to song writing….
This didn’t just teach me how to control the Chords, but it also made me understand the way Per wrote songs. Then for more practice, I played Roxette songs, all of them. I used to hum random melodies and then searched the Internet for its chords and practiced till I got bored. I ended up understanding that if one knows 12 major and 12 minor chords, they can end up playing most of the songs there are, and that is exactly what I did. Somehow, I ended up learning the basic theory and the most awesomest thing called “chords”. I got a keyboard, YouTube and a “Piano for Dummies” being my teachers, I just started to meddle with the melodies. I started to play music at the age of 21, without a proper teacher and without any knowledge of musical theory except the songs I grew up listening.