They won a Grammy for Best Pop Group in 1990.
Roxette is Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. Although they always have a band with them, they aren't part of Roxette.
The name Roxette has it's origin in a lyric written by Dr. Feelgood.
Their biggest success was the album Joyride witch sold over 10 million times all over the world. When released, the album went straight to the all time top 100. In the mean time it fell out of that again.
In 2002 the doctors diagnosed a brain tumor by Marie. She had a successful surgery. In 2004 she released the album Chances where she processed the time of her illness.
In 1999 their music video Anyone was banned form TV, because of some suicide contents.
They sold over one million CDs over McDonald's in 1994. It was a reduced version of Crash! Boom! Bang! and had the title Favorites from Crash! Boom! Bang!
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