Released album “The Have A Nice Day Demos”.
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Per Gessle
Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was disbanded after her death in 2019. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and topped the charts in…
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Born 12 January 1959 · Q312801
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2026· 2 entries
Released album “The Pop-Up Dynamo! Demos”.
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2025· 4 entries
Moviefone: Per Gessle: En vacker kväll - Where to Watch
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Released ep “Henrys gitarr”.
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Released album “The Charm School Demos”.
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Released album “The Lonely Boys Demo Sessions 1995”.
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “Sällskapssjuk”.
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Released album “The Good Karma Demos”.
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Live Europe 2018”.
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Awarded Halmstad municipality's cultural award (2023).
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2022· 3 entries
Released album “En akustisk kväll med Per Gessle”.
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Released album “Dags att tänka på refrängen Demos”.
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Released album “20 Vackra Demos”.
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2021· 4 entries
Released album “Finn 5 fel! Demos”.
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Released ep “Tylösand 2021 EP”.
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BroadwayWorld: PER GESSLE On Tour
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Released album “Late Night Concert - Unplugged Cirkus”.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “Gammal kärlek rostar aldrig”.
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Released album “Samma skrot och demos”.
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2018· 4 entries
Music Week: 'We are playing 85% Roxette tracks': Per Gessle talks one-off UK show
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Gulf News: Roxette's Per Gessle on bust-ups and comebacks
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Released album “Small Town Talk”.
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Billboard: Roxette’s Per Gessle on Working With ‘Musical Hero’ Nick Lowe & Heading to Nashville for Solo Album
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “En vacker kväll: Live sommaren 2017”.
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Released album “En vacker dag”.
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Released album “En vacker natt”.
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2016· 2 entries
(70,144), and the band played to almost half a million fans
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Started using the pseudonym Mono Mind, first releasing a few singles before delivering a full album, Mind Control, in 2019
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2015· 1 entry
Produced another set of solo efforts, En vacker natt (2017), En vacker dag (2017) and Small Town Talk (2018)
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Small Apartments: The Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2012· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: Per Gessle of Roxette’s 5 favorite things about touring
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Gessle Over Europe”.
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Later followed by extensive concert tours in 2010, 2011 and 2012, performing over 100 shows on all 6 continents
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Party Crasher”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “En händig man på turné”.
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Released album “Att vara Per Gessle (Doppade bara tårna - Demos 1977-90)”.
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Released album “Kung av sand - en liten samling 1983-2007”.
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Released album “En händig man”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released ep “Dancing Plumber, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Mazarin Demos”.
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Released album “Son of a Plumber Demos”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Son of a Plumber”.
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Awarded Lisebergsapplåden (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Billboard: Per Gessle Tops Sweden’s Grammis
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Saw Gessle and Gyllene Tider reunite for a 25th-anniversary celebration that included the band's first album in 20 years, Finn 5 fel
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2003· 5 entries
Released album “Mazarin”.
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Won H. M. The King's Medal (2003).
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Awarded Grammis for Här kommer alla känslorna (2003).
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Awarded Rockbjörnen (2003).
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Released album “En mazarin, älskling?”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Hjärtats trakt: En samling”.
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Released album “The World According to Gessle”.
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Produced three singles, "Do You Wanna Be My Baby
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Hjärtats trakt – en samling was released as a best-of album
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1996· 2 entries
Worked with Belinda Carlisle and wrote two songs for her album, A Woman and a Man; "Always Breaking My Heart" and "Love Doesn't Live Here"
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After a reunion and subsequent tour of Gyllene Tider, Gessle recorded his first English solo album, using Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as backing musicians
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Hjärtats Trakt”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Demos, 1982-86”.
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Released album “På väg, 1982-86”.
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1990· 2 entries
Gessle wrote a single, "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye", for Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame); Roxette would release their version as the B-side of their single "Spending My Time"
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“The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye”
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Grammis for Look Sharp! (1988).
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1986· 2 entries
Released ep “Inte tillsammans, inte isär”.
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And which was disbanded after her death in 2019
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Scener”.
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1984· 1 entry
“We decided to put Gyllene Tider to rest... until further notice.”
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Per Gessle”.
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1982· 1 entry
Gessle released his first solo album, Per Gessle and after Gyllene Tider split-up his second album, Scener, quickly appeared in 1985
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1961· 1 entry
Gessle married his long-time girlfriend Åsa Nordin (born 1961) in 1993 at Västra Strö Church, Eslöv, Sweden.
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-01-12.
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1917· 1 entry
Gessle is the youngest son of plumber Kurt Gessle (1917–1978) and Elisabeth Gessle (1925–2013).
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