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Roxette: Pearls of Passion

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 1986.10.31
Time:
 48:27
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Clarence Öfwerman
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.roxette.se
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Soul Deep (P.Gessle) - 3:41
[2] Secrets That She Keeps (P.Gessle) - 3:48
[3] Goodbye to You (P.Gessle) - 4:03
[4] I Call Your Name (P.Gessle) - 3:39
[5] Surrender (P.Gessle) - 4:23
[6] Voices (M.Fredriksson/P.Andersson) - 4:46
[7] Neverending Love (P.Gessle) - 3:30
[8] Call of the Wild (P.Gessle) - 4:32
[9] Joy of a Toy (M.Persson/P.Gessle) - 3:09
[10] From One Heart to Another (P.Gessle) - 4:11
[11] Like Lovers Do (P.Gessle) - 3:25
[12] So Far Away (P.Gessle/H.Huss) - 5:17

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Per Gessle - Vocals, Liner Notes
Marie Fredriksson - Vocals

Clarence Öfwerman - Keyboards, Arrangement, Producer
Jonas Isacsson - Guitars
Tommy Cassemar - Bass
Pelle Alsing - Drums

Alar Suurna - Engineer, Remastering
Robert Wellerfors - Engineer
Kjell Andersson - Design

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Recorded at the EMI Studios, Stockholm, 1986.



Roxette's debut album, issued in late 1986, is a portrait of a band in its formative stages. Both Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson had previously pursued solo careers in their native Sweden, and Pearls of Passion was the band's attempt at international stardom. It was preceded in the summer by a very '80s pop single called "Everlasting Love," which became the band's first bonafide hit...at least within Sweden. When the album was released later that year, things were much the same; while the album was a hit in Sweden, the rest of the world failed to pay much attention at all. And listening to the album, it's not that hard to tell why: nothing here is bad, but it lacks nearly all of the elements that made albums like Joyride and Look Sharp into massive hits just a few years later. Roxette's most intriguing qualities are that they are a pop band that can rock and that Gessle is a crack songwriter that almost never produces a bad tune. Here, however, there's a lot of dry material and a lot of undistinguishable dance-pop. Their trademark gritty guitars are completely absent, and what results is really only three great songs: "Soul Deep" (which was later re-recorded for Joyride, "Everlasting Love," and the magnificent "Secrets That She Keeps." The rest, however, is of significant interest only to serious fans. (A 1997 reissue of the album includes eight bonus tracks, new album packaging, and liner notes from Per Gessle himself.)

Jason Damas - All Music Guide



Pearls of Passion is Roxette's debut album, released on 31 October 1986. It was re-released internationally on CD on 31 October 1997 with some previously unreleased or single-only bonus tracks. It was re-mastered and re-released again in 2009. The album was originally only released in Scandinavia and Canada.

The album peaked at #2 on the Swedish albums chart but apart from Canada and Scandinavia it failed to get released outside Sweden. However, Roxette went on to record and release their follow-up, Look Sharp!.

"Neverending Love", "Goodbye to You", "Soul Deep" and "I Call Your Name" were released as singles. "It Must Have Been Love" was later used [with the reference to Christmas changed to a neutral winter reference ("It's a hard Christmas Day" was replaced with "It's a hard winter's day")] in the movie Pretty Woman. "Soul Deep" reappeared on their album Joyride in 1991 and "So Far Away" was recorded again for Tourism in 1992.

The album was followed by a compilation of remixes of the same songs, titled Dance Passion.

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