13 albums, about 40 singles, several tours in 18 years. Yes, that's Roxette. The pop-duo from Sweden, today, its members, Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, are known all over the world. But let's see how it all started...

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1992

During the Join The Joyride tour, Roxette has recorded several songs. A compilation of these and some live recordings was released in 1992 under the name "Tourism - Songs From Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms and Other Strange Places". Singles of the albums include "How Do You Do!", "Queen Of Rain" and "Fingertips".

1993

Roxette was invited by MTV to take part in their Unplugged series - they were the first non-English speaking band to play such a concert. The same year, Roxette recorded a song called "Almost Unreal" for the movie "Super Mario Bros". Although the film failed, the song did well in the charts.

1994

The fifth album, "Crash! Boom! Bang!" was released in 1994, containing some of their best up-tempo songs, like "Sleeping In My Car", or "Fireworks", just like beautiful ballads, such as "Run To You", "Vulnerable" and the title track. This year, Roxette began their second world tour. In the US, an album containing 10 songs of the original one was released, called "Favourites From Crash! Boom! Bang!" Although copies were only available in Mc Donald's restaurants, they sold over 1 million...

1995

The tour went on, visiting places like South America, South Africa, Australia... and China. The band calls this concert one of their most memorable... In 1995, a Greatest Hits album was released. "Don't Bore Us - Get To The Chorus!" features 4 new songs ("You Don't Understand Me", "June Afternoon", "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "I Don't Want To Get Hurt") and 16 hits. "Rarities", an album full of previously unreleased material had been released before the Greatest Hits compilation.

1996

Because of a huge number of fans living in Latin America, Roxette decided to release a compilation of their best ballads, entitled "Baladas En Español" in 1996. Although neither Per, nor Marie speaks Spanish, the album was warmly welcome in Spanish speaking countries worldwide.

1997

The first album, "Pearls Of Passion" was re-released, containing some bonus tracks, such as the title track or "Turn To Me".

1998

After a long silence, Marie and Per got back to the studios recording songs for their next album.

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