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Per Gessle
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Per Gessle was born in 1959 and is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and main songwriter of the pop duo Roxette, which he founded in 1986 with Marie Fredriksson and which ceased to exist after her death in 2019. Before that he had success in Sweden as the frontman of Gyllene Tider, a group he co-founded in 1976. That group quickly became popular, but after the disappointing fourth album The Heartland Café from 1984 it broke up.
Music and breakthrough
Roxette broke through internationally at the end of the 1980s and the start of the 1990s, with the albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991). The duo topped the American chart four times, above all with It Must Have Been Love, which was heard in the film Pretty Woman.
Influence
Besides his work with Roxette and Gyllene Tider, Gessle made many solo albums, in Swedish and in English. His first solo album Per Gessle appeared in 1982, followed by Scener in 1985. After Fredriksson's illness he released Mazarin (2003), a success with critics and public, and then Son of a Plumber (2005), En händig man (2007) and Party Crasher (2008). Later came En vacker natt, En vacker dag and Small Town Talk. Under the pseudonym Mono Mind he released the album Mind Control in 2019.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1983Per Gessle
- 1985Scener
- 1997The World According to Gessle
- 2003Mazarin
- 2005Son of a Plumber
- 2007En händig man
- 2008Party Crasher
- 2013Small Apartments: The Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2017En vacker dag
- 2017En vacker natt
- 2018Small Town Talk
- 2020Gammal kärlek rostar aldrig
- 2024Sällskapssjuk
Mentioned in other articles
- The Look Song
Songwriter Per Gessle wrote it.