But a few weeks before we got there, everything exploded. It was thought that we would play for about 6,000 people. From our side it was: “we are from Halmstad and get to play in South America. They said: “you can do your tour, but you won’t make any money”. Guns N ’Roses, Madonna and Michael Jackson had cancelled their tours. It’s the South America tour that stands out, for several reasons. The tour that followed reached with its 100 concerts four continents and 1.7 million people. In fact, that kind of success is appreciated even more today.Īftonbladet informs that Joyride topped the charts in seven European countries and was certified multi-platinum in several territories. Many years later I was at Östermalmshallen and bought vegetables when they called and said that we had become number one with “Charm School” in Germany. When you are in the flow, it’s just another success. But then you already knew what it was like. That combination: “Hello, you fool, I love you / C’mon join the joyride” felt like a great pop campaign.Īftonbladet shares that when Roxette reached their fourth US number one in May 1991, Per with entourage was eating dinner at the La Coupole restaurant in Paris when the phone rang. I had just read an interview with Paul McCartney who described songwriting with John Lennon as “a long joyride”. “Joyride” began with the note that my then girlfriend, now wife put on my piano: “Hello, you fool, I love you”. I lived and breathed Roxette 24 hours a day. He als tells that Joyride and Spending My Time were written the same day. Sometimes he woke up his wife, Åsa in the middle of the night. In the interview Per tells Aftonbladet that during those times, long before iPhones, he used to call home and record song ideas on the answering machine. But I was just motivated by the success, I just poured myself into it. With “Look Sharp!” and “It Must Have Been Love” we had had five huge hits before “Joyride” came. That a band from Sweden would do it was not on the map. At the same time, we were shocked and grateful to have broken through. When I think of the Joyride era, we were like Zlatan, doing bicycle kicks all the time. When you were a teenager girls, drugs, eccentric people. He loved the pop world, because there was everything that didn’t exist in his real world. PG tells Per Magnusson that pop music is an escape. G joined the meeting from his Stockholm office.
Per Magnusson from Aftonbladet did an interview with Per Gessle via Zoom.
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