Artist: Per Gessle
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Folk
Discography:
The World According to Per Gessle
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Demos 1982-86
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
Scener
Year: 1984
Tracks: 16
Per Gessle.
Year: 1983
Tracks: 16
WORLD ACCORDING TO GESSLE
Year:
Tracks: 15
As ane half of the duet Roxette, Per Gessle became ane of the most successful Swedish artists e'er, and probably the i earning the about money from his music. Gessle does have a sure gift for attention-getting meat hooks, but he too worked diligently to break away universal through his entire vocation. When the teenager idol stria Gyllene Tider failed to do so, merely being one of the best-selling bands in Sweden, he disbanded the group and tested a solo career, until at long last subsiding on the duette initialize together with Marie Fredriksson. His music has constantly been on the lightweight side and never selfsame imaginative (the lyrics even less so), merely Gessle has proved to be a very skilled songwriter.
Per Gessle was natural in the seaboard town of Halmstad in southwestern Sweden. Inspired by the new undulation movement, he had a abbreviated school term in the duette Grape Rock in the late '70s, before forming Gyllene Tider. Within a few eld, their hokum lyrics and super attention-getting meat hooks had Sweden beguiled, and they caused chaos on their summer tours. In 1983, spell to the highest degree of the stria members were doing their military service, Gessle released his self-titled solo debut, but it didn't come close to the winner of Gyllene Tider. In 1984, the band had reunited and tested for the North American market, touring under the nominate Roxette (a different Roxette than the duet Gessle later formed together with Marie Fredriksson), but passed relatively unnoticed. Discouraged by the failure, Gessle, wHO has incessantly been more inventive commercially than artistically, disbanded the band and released another solo album, Scener, patch forming the actual Roxette as a side project.
The early office of Roxette, Marie Fredriksson had a more than arty reputation than Gessle, and was ab initio well-advised not to go bad her solo career by singing lightweight bulge out music. The advice went unheard though, and in 1986 Roxette's debut album, Pearls of Passion, was released. In deuce age, they had become one of Sweden's to the highest degree popular groups, and in another year they reached routine one on the American charts for the number one time. During the number one half of the '90s, Roxette was staggeringly successful planetary, piece acquiring lilliputian toleration from the critics. In the late '90s, they disoriented a lot of their audience in Europe and North America, but unbroken up a firm next in Asia and South America.
In 1996, Gyllene Tider reunited for a summertime go, cathartic an EP with new written songs, as well as re-releasing a compiling. Both sold highly well on the Swedish securities industry. The next twelvemonth, Gessle released his third solo album, which was the first one in English, this metre backed by members of Gyllene Tider and Brainpool. The record album, called The World According to Per Gessle, didn't sell well even at home, simply proved that Gessle hadn't got all caught up in recipe at a time when Roxette had started to feel pretty outdated. The undermentioned two albums by the group did slight to change that impression.
