This year, Swedish group Roxette celebrates the 30th Anniversary of their third album Joyride, following the bands spectacular global breakthrough with Look Sharp! in 1989.

Three US #1 singles – The Look, Listen To Your Heart and It Must Have Been Love – and other big hits like Dressed For Success and Dangerous had rapidly made the Roxette duo Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle a world-wide hit phenomenon.

Joyride was the album that was supposed to cement Roxettes new-found status as a global hit-makers. Which indeed it did. On May 1, the title track zoomed all the way up to #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart setting a record no Scandinavian group or artist has yet been able to break, helping to make Joyride a 11+ million seller.

The Joyride box set also offers a chance to hear two previously unreleased demos of songs originally released by Pers former group Gyllene Tider, who in 1984 tried to break the international market with the album Heartland Caf.

– In the autumn of 1989 I was going through all kinds of possible material for the new Roxette album. Run Run Run and Another Place, Another Time from the Heartland Caf album felt like quite strong contenders, so we did new and more Roxified demo versions of them. Run Run Run was a favourite of mine I thought it had potential to go a long way, Per Gessle remembers.

The two songs never made it to a studio recording, however.

– Even though we were travelling the world constantly doing promotion for Look Sharp! as well as It Must Have Been Love, I managed to find time to write lots of new songs. Most of them were customized for Marie to sing, and in the end we preferred those, Per says.

Other unearthed demoes from 1990 are Small Talk, Church Of Your Heart, Physical Fascination, Things Will Never Be The Same, I Remember You and not least the future single B-side The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye one of the strongest songs that never made it to the album. It would however become a much loved track by Roxette fans the Roxers and recorded by many artists, among them American singer Laura Branigan.

Sweet Thing is another one of the many songs written and demoed for the new album, giving the listener a more complete insight in the making of this classic pop album.

Release date: 26th November, 2021

LP #1
A
1 Joyride
2 Hotblooded
3 Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
4 Knockin On Every Door
5 Spending My Time
6 Watercolours In The Rain

B
1 The Big L.
2 (Do You Get) Excited?
3 Small Talk
4 Physical Fascination
5 Things Will Never Be The Same
6 Perfect Day

LP #2
A
1 Soul Deep
2 I Remember You
3 Church Of Your Heart
4 The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
5 Fading Like A Flower (US single version, Humberto Gatica mix)*

B
1 Joyride (Us single version, Brain Malouf mix)
2 Soul deep (Tom Lord-Alge mix)
3 Church Of Your Heart (US adult contemporary mix)*
4 Hotblooded (Live Sydney Dec 1991)
5 Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) (Live Sydney Dec 1991)

LP #3
A
1 Joyride (T&A Demo May 23, 1990)
2 Hotblooded (T&A Demo Jan 23, 1990)*
3 Fading like a flower (T&A Demo Aug 31, 1990)
4 Knockin on every door (T&A Demo Aug 15, 1989)
5 Spending my time (T&A Demo May 24, 1990)
6 I remember you (T&A Demo Apr 1, 1990)
7 Watercolours in the rain (T&A Demo Jan 24, 1990)

B
1The Big L. (T&A Demo Apr 1, 1990)
2 (Do You Get) Excited? (T&A Demo Aug 19, 1989)
3 Small Talk (T&A Demo aug 30, 1990)*
4 Church Of Your Heart (T&A Demo Jan 8, 1990) *
5 Physical Fascination (T&A Demo Jan 3, 1990)*
6 Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo Jun 17, 1989)
7 Perfect Day (T&A Demo Aug 23, 1990)

LP #4
A
1 Sweet Thing (T&A Demo Oct 28, 1990)*
2 Seduce Me (T&A Demo Aug 22, 1990)
3 Run Run Run (T&A Demo Jan 10, 1990)*
4 Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo Sep 17, 1989)*
5 Love Spins (T&A Demo Jan 3, 1990)
6 Come Back (Before You Leave) (T&A Demo Apr 8, 1990)
7 The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (T&A Demo Mar 16, 1990)*

B
1 Hotblooded (T&A Demo Dec 13, 1990)
2 Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo Dec 13, 1990)
3 Another Place, Another Time (T&A Demo Jan 11, 1990)*
4 I Remember You (T&A Demo Mar 15, 1990)*
5 Queen Of Rain (T&A Demo Jan 2, 1990
6 The Big L. (T&A Demo Mar 29, 1990)
7 Joyrider (T&A Demo May 22, 1990)

*Previously unreleased