Per Gessle
Per Håkan Gessle ( pronunciation: [ ˌ PAE ː ʁ gɛs ː lə ], born January 12, 1959 in Halmstad ) is a Swedish musician and songwriter.
Life
He was in his Swedish homeland with his band Gyllene Tider first ( to German Golden Times ) known before he together with Marie Fredriksson Roxette in 1989 under the name of successful worldwide. The song The Look from the album Look Sharp! Roxette gave the top spot in the U.S. Billboard charts. With Listen to your Heart (1990 ), It Must Have Been Love ( 1990) Joyride (1991 ) Roxette repeated this success three times. With Gessle Roxette also published the albums Tourism (1992 ), Crash! Boom! Bang! (1994 ), Have a nice Day ( 1999), Room Service (2001 ) Charm School (2011 ) and more recently Travelling ( 2012).
In addition, Gessle was and is also active as a songwriter for other artists such as Belinda Carlisle and the Leningrad Cowboys. As early as 1982 he wrote the song Threnody for example Frida's solo album, Something's Going on. The mid- 90s, he also published an English-language solo album called The World According To Gessle (1997 ), which, however, he was unable to match the international old Roxette success.
Today Gessle is one of the most successful Swedish musicians. In 2002 he was on the compilation " The song Ramones the same - A Tribute to The Ramones " to listen with an interpretation of the Ramones classic " I wanna be your Boyfriend". He released the song as Maxi, with the back of " Sheena is a Punk Rocker" (also in the original by the Ramones ).
In 2003 he published his first Mazarin Swedish -language solo album since 1985, finishing with both this album and the first single hardening commercial alla känslorna ("Here all the feelings come "), first place in the Swedish charts. After the release of " Mazarin " he went on tour in summer 2003. Early 2004, Gessle was awarded four Swedish Grammys - including for Song of the Year. In 2004, the 25th anniversary of Gyllene Tider with the album Finn fem fel and a tour was held by Sweden, which was the most successful tour of all time in Sweden with 492 252 visitors.
On 23 November 2005 he published under the pseudonym " Son of a Plumber " another English-language solo album in Sweden, which also bears the name " Son of a Plumber ". The name is an allusion to the fact that the father of Per Gessle was a plumber. The album was released on 27 March 2006 in many parts of Europe and on 28 April 2006 in Germany.
On 12 January 2006 his 47th birthday, Per Gessle released an album with demo versions of all the tracks on the album Mazarin.
In 2008 he wrote the lyrics to the song Vanilla Ninja Crashing Through the doors.
With his album " Party Crasher " he toured in April and May 2009 through Europe. In November and December 2009, he was with Marie Fredriksson as Roxette in the Night of the Proms on the road in 20 concerts in Germany.
In addition, Per Gessle is a successful restaurateur. In Tylösand, near his hometown of Halmstad, he is co-owner of a Nobel Hotels and successfully operates a beach club.
Per Gessle is married and has a son.
Other projects
- Teptis
- Grape skirt
- Peter Pop & The Helicopters
- Gyllene Tider
- Spännande Ostar
- Roxette
- Pers Garage
- The Lonely Boys
- Son of a Plumber
Discography
- Per Gessle (1983 )
- Scener (1985 )
- På väg 1982-86 ( CD box set consisting of the first two solo albums and album demos, 1982-86, which was only available with this box. ) ( 1992)
- Hjärtats tract (Compilation Album) (1994 )
- The World According to Gessle (1997)
- Hjärtats tract / En Samling ( compilation album ) (1997 )
- Mazarin (2003)
- Son of a Plumber ( as " Son of a Plumber " ) (2005 )
- Mazarin demos (available as a "Bad Hair Day " as a download only ) (2006 )
- En handed one (2007)
- The World According to Gessle (Remastered & Extended Edition) ( 2008)
- Party Crasher (2008)
- Gessle Over Europe ( live album " Party Crasher " tour ) (2009 )
- Small Apartments (April 12, 2013)