The single topped the charts across Europe, and in Australia, Canada and the United States, where it spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, their last to do so, in May 1991. Hello, you fool, I love you Cmon join the joyride I hit the road out of nowhere I had to jump in my car And be a rider in a love game Following the stars Dont need a book of wisdom I get no money talk at all She has a train going downtown Shes got a club on the moon And shes telling all her secrets In a wonderful balloon Shes the heart of the funfair Shes got me whistling a private tune. To celebrate the album’s anniversary, Joyride will be released as a 4LP and a 3CD box, containing the original release as well as previously unreleased or hard-to-get material, released this Autumn."Joyride", written by Per Gessle, was the first single released from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1991 album Joyride, the follow-up to the group's highly successful Look Sharp!. 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. Hello, you fool, I love you Cmon join the joyride I hit the road out of nowhere I had to jump in my car And be a rider in a love game Following the stars Dont need no book of wisdom I get no. Cmon, join the joyride, everybody Get your tickets here, step right this way. The duo experienced considerable pressure from their record label to. The Lyrics for Joyride by Roxette have been translated into 10 languages. 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. Joyride is the third studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released on 28 March 1991 by EMI as the follow-up to their international breakthrough Look Sharp (1988), as well as the non-album single 'It Must Have Been Love', from the soundtrack to Pretty Woman (1990).The album was recorded over an 11-month period in Sweden. In the spring of 1991, most things seemed to go Roxette’s way. With Joyride the whole album was in the can.” And he tells all his secrets / In a comfortable balloon. He has a train to the city / He has a club this month. You dont need a wisdom book / I have no money to talk about anything.
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And become a pilot in a free game / Follow the stars. 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. Joyride (authentic lyrics) I took the road / I had to jump in my car. 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. Track 9 previously featured on the album Pearls Of Passion. 'Joyride' is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. Track 6 is the B-side of the single 'Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)'. Tracks 6, 9 and 11 are bonus tracks not available on LP. It was like the whole pop world revolved around them. Roxette's third album was reissued in 2009, with the same cover and 3 extra tracks : 'Love Spins', 'Seduce Me' and 'The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye'. “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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