罗克塞特
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罗克塞特(國:羅克塞)是一个瑞典双人乐队, 成员包括Per Gessle和Marie Fredriksson。
他们最著名的作品包括"It Must Have Been Love"(电影风月俏佳人(國:麻雀變鳳凰)配乐),The Look和 Joyride等。
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[编辑] 历史
罗克塞特(國:羅克塞)乐队是由瑞典著名歌手泊尔·盖梭(皮爾.蓋索)和玛丽·富里追客森(瑪麗.芙瑞德克森)组成。他们俩从1979年就已经认识。玛丽与泊尔在后者的乐队“Gyllene Tider,吉利·泰德”(瑞典文直譯.意思是黃金時代)在专辑“内陆咖啡屋”的部分作品中合作过。该专辑后来曾在美国发行。由于乐队的名字在美国人看来太复杂不好记，所以他们需要一个换一个好一点的名字。罗克塞特这个名字源于“菲尔古德博士(Dr. FeelGood)”的一首同名歌曲。 专辑“内陆咖啡屋”于1984年发行，但并不成功。乐队随后解散。
泊尔接着继续做了一个个人独唱专辑，但是仍然不成功。1985年他接受EMI唱片公司的建议，与玛丽合唱了一首“永恒的爱”。出乎所有人的意料，该曲在瑞典国内外一举走红。于是泊尔和玛丽很快赶制了一部新的专辑。该专辑里的歌都是泊尔为他的第三部个唱专辑而写的。1986年，新组建的乐队罗克塞特以专辑“狂热珍珠(國:珍珠熱情)”一炮走红，立刻成为瑞典国内外炙手可热的乐队。 他们接着推出了混唱专辑“舞动的热情”
他们第二部新专辑“锐视”于1988年发行。展现了罗克塞特经典的节奏。该专辑的主打歌为“一瞥”。一个来自明尼那不勒斯的美国交换学生在圣诞节放假期间把一张“锐视”专辑带回家度假，并让一个在当地广播电台工作的朋友播放此专辑。电台领导被说服后复制了此专辑并发放给各兄弟电台播放。结果主打歌“一瞥”一举成功，成为1989年四月劲歌一百首排行榜第一名的歌曲。
惊喜不已的EMI公司迅速在美国正式发行了该专辑。罗克塞特乐队也开始在全球巡回演出。其结果就是得到了另一个排行榜第一的回报：专辑“锐视”，主打歌曲“倾听你的心”。这是第一个以磁带方式发行的专辑，而以前都是用唱片的方式发行的。第三个专辑“严阵以待”，排行14， 第四个专辑“危险”，1990年2月排行榜第二。
In 1990, a track which was by this time 3 years old, It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken Hearted), was used in the hit movie Pretty Woman (movie), without the Christmas references. The soundtrack sold over 8 million copies in the USA alone.
Roxette continued their musical assault on the hitsingles of the world in 1991 with Joyride, their third album, which sold 10 million copies worldwide, and prompted a worldwide tour that incorporated 108 concerts.
Tracks recorded during the tour, as well as some tracks which had only been released as singles, appeared on their album Tourism in 1992.
In 1993 Roxette were the first non-English speaking artists to be featured on MTV's "Unplugged" series.
Some of the tracks from that recording, as well as more single-only tracks, were released on the album Rarities, which was only available in Japan and parts of South America.
The two years after their tour were used to record 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang!. A major hit worldwide, the album was not successful only in the USA, allegedly due to mismanagement by EMI.
1995 and 1996 saw the release of two albums: a greatest hits album, Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus! (1995), which featured the single versions of tracks, as well as rare songs such as "Almost Unreal", and a Spanish cover-album, Baladas En Español (1996).
For the next three years nothing was heard from Roxette, and rumours went about that they had split up, but they returned in 1999 with a new look and sound and the album Have a Nice Day. Originally criticized by many, including fans, because of the changed sound and the use of techno and house elements, fans nevertheless warmed to the songs, and Roxette were back on the radio in Europe.
Have a Nice Day was followed in 2001 by the album Room Service, an album which was extensively promoted on the Internet. A remix of the song The Centre of the Heart from this album appears in the Dance Dance Revolution music video game series, but charted moderately in places such as Argentina and Switzerland.
After Room Service, two compilation albums appeared: The Ballad Hits and The Pop Hits, which included only a few new songs.
Roxette's future is uncertain, as Marie Fredriksson is as of early 2004 recovering from a brain tumor, and Per Gessle is back with a reunited Gyllene Tider.
[编辑] 问题
Despite the fact that Roxette have scored many hit singles, their latest albums were, according to some, not promoted properly by their record company and some albums were not even released in the USA at all, or released in altered form: for example Crash! Boom! Bang! was only available as a 10-track disc available from McDonalds in the USA.
Roxette's main fan following is in Scandinavia, as well as the Netherlands and (parts of) South America. To cater to their South American fans, Roxette covered a number of their most popular ballads in Spanish in 1996, but the album Baladas en Español has been criticized because the translator apparently did not take the project seriously, leading to some nonsense lyrics.
Another failure for Roxette was when the song "Almost Unreal" was dropped from the Hocus Pocus movie with Bette Midler and was instead used for the Super Mario Bros movie. The latter was a complete box-office failure.
[编辑] 唱片作品目录
- Pearls of Passion (1986年, 1997年重新发行)
- Dance Passion (1987年, vinyl only: 混音专辑).
- Look Sharp! (Roxette album)|Look Sharp!] (1988年)
- Joyride (album)|Joyride (1991年)
- Tourism (album)|Tourism (1992年)
- Crash! Boom! Bang! (1994年)
- Rarities (album)|Rarities (1995年, 仅在日本和台湾发行)
- Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! - Roxette's Greatest Hits (1995年)
- Baladas En Español (1996年)
- Have a Nice Day (1999年)
- Room Service (album)|Room Service (2001年)
- The Ballad Hits (2002年)
- The Pop Hits (2003年)
参见: 瑞典音乐人目录
