
EXCLUSIVE ROXETTE CD & DVD PACKAGE RELEASE
CELEBRATES UPCOMING AUSTRALIAN TOUR
EMI Music Australia
has just unleashed "A Collection of Roxette Hits : Exclusive Australian Tour
Edition CD & DVD" package to celebrate the Swedish duo's upcoming Australian
tour.
Roxette are set to play a very special live show at the
Sydney Entertainment Centre on Friday February 17, 2012 with tickets on sale now.
Roxette
have topped the charts three times in Australia with singles It Must Have Been
Love, Joyride and The Look. Look Sharp went to number two on the Australian album
charts in 1988. Joyride followed in 1991 also reaching number two. Roxette's next
albums, Tourism and Crash! Boom! Bang!, both reached number 3 on the Australian
album charts while their first greatest hits album Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus
landed in the Australian top ten in 1995.
The band's 2010
studio album 'Charm School', sees Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle delivering
an album that celebrates everything that Roxette is known for. Described as an
"updated but yet classic Roxette album", Charm School features the first
hit single "She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)".
Marie
Fredriksson and Per Gessle who make up Roxette, came out of Sweden in the late
'80s. Their game was pop and their mission was to conquer the world.
With
33 chart-busting singles and total record sales of 75 million, it seems safe to
say "mission accomplished". Except for one thing - it ain't over yet!
Biding their time during Marie Fredriksson's recovery from her brain tumour in
2002, the band has gradually staged a comeback that has climaxed with the release
of their new album Charm School and their current world tour. After an extremely
successful start in Russia, Roxette went on to sell out concerts throughout Europe,
South America and South Africa over the last year with more than one million tickets
sold at 70 concerts. After such an overwhelming response in the rest of the world,
Roxette have decided to extend the tour to include a very special show in Sydney.
"The concerts have been amazing so far," says Per
Gessle. "Marie and the band are in top shape and the response has been incredible.
And the way the new album has been received is great. We feel very fortunate and
look forward to a very exciting year!"
With a catalogue
of mega hits including It Must Have Been Love, Joyride, Listen To Your Heart,
How Do You Do, Sleeping In My Car, Dressed For Success and The Look, this is set
to be one of THE live events of the 2012 calendar.
Roxette
last toured Australia in 1995 on their Crash! Boom! Bang! world tour. A year when
we still didn't quite know what a "Spice Girl" was or what the World
Wide Web was all about. And Facebook!? What was that? Mark Zuckerberg was just
an 11-year-old kid possibly playing games on his Atari computer. (Thanks to Facebook
there is now a "Bring Roxette to Australia" page!) Maybe you were too
busy in 1995 watching Beverly Hills 90210, Friends, Seinfeld or The Nanny to see
Roxette? Or maybe mum and dad just didn't let you go?
So grab
all your friends, listen to your heart and get yourself dressed for success and
get ready to join the joyride with Roxette in 2012!
ROXETTE
LIVE | SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE | FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17
Tickets
available through Ticketmaster - www.ticketmaster.com.au - phone 136 100
'A
Collection of Roxette Hits: Exclusive Australian Tour Edition CD & DVD' is
out now.