Beside the big hits, Joyride also contains Perfect Day, Hotblooded, (Do You Get) Excited? and not least Watercolours In The Rain, a song that Marie had written wonderful music to, and I happened to have a fitting lyric in the drawer”, Per says. Around this time, she was at the absolute top of her game, effortlessly creating lasting wonders with my songs. “Marie’s superb vocals is one of the main reasons that Roxette – and not least our biggest album Joyride – was such a huge success. Soon the album had passed the 11-million mark. The cheery title track zoomed up the charts, giving the group their fourth No 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the US – setting a record that still holds for Scandinavian acts – while future singles like Fading Like A Flower, Spending My Time and Church Of Your Heart were waiting in the wings. In the spring of 1991, most things seemed to go Roxette’s way. With Joyride the whole album was in the can.” The song came very easily, and I instantly knew it was a hit: it would provide the album with a great title, ‘hello, you fool I love you’ was a cool hook. I had read an interview with Paul McCartney, where he said that ‘writing songs with John Lennon was just a long joyride’. And that’s exactly how I felt about Joyride.
But despite that pressure, they never thought it was difficult to deliver. Their sound was spot-on, they had produced a string of hits, and everybody was waiting for the next one. It was like the whole pop world revolved around them. “Björn Ulveaus once told me how he felt when ABBA recorded Mamma Mia. Some artists would have found this pressure hard to handle. Unsurprisingly, Joyride therefore carried a heavy weight on its shoulders the album was supposed to cement Roxette’s new-found status as a global success, proving that the hits of 19 were no fluke. The albums three US No 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 almost transformed the dynamic duo of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle into an overnight world-wide hit phenomenon that would soon pave the way for other Swedish pop acts during the 90s.
Today, Sunday 28th March, Roxette celebrate the the 30th anniversary of their third album Joyride – the much anticipated follow-up to the band’s spectacular 1989 global breakthrough, Look Sharp!.`
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