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Track: Fireworks
Artist: Roxette
Album: Crash! Boom! Bang!

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Name: Roxette
Spotify Genres: swedish pop
Followers: 2,880,483
Popularity:

73/100

Biography

Swedish pop duo, formed in 1986 in Halmstad by [a=Per Gessle] and [a=Marie Fredriksson]. The group enjoyed worldwide success from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, gaining nineteen UK Top 40 hits and four US #1 singles with, "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride". Two further singles "Dangerous" and "Fading Like a Flower" hit #2. Finally, "Dressed for Success" was a modest hit in the US peaking at #14. After a hiatus in the mid-1990s, their popularity continued in other territories such as Europe and South America, where they earned various Gold and Platinum awards until the beginning of the new millennium. In 2002 the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In 2009 Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in 8 years, during Gessle's European Party Crasher tour. Their songs continue to receive radio airplay, with "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen to Your Heart" both recently receiving awards from BMI for achieving four million radio plays. They have sold an estimated 60 million records worldwide, with over 3.5 million record sales in the United States, achieving platinum for Joyride and Look Sharp! there.

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Release: Roxette - Fireworks
Year: 1994
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Pop Rock, Acoustic

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LYRICS

I once knew a girl, I can't remember her name
but I remember her face cos her sister looked the same.
They both left school, but they couldn't find a job.
So they said farewell and stole a small town car.
As they were riding by the beach some summer night,
the radio shouted out one of those songs
that might just change your life -

It went like this:
"Checkin' in checkin' out,
making love I like watching all your fireworks.
I like it when I light those stars in your eyes,
just like fireworks in the sky"
- yes it did...

Throwing some poems to the ports and docks.
They were sleeping outdoors pushing all their luck.
They sent me a letter full of pills and thrills,
then they both got rich and moved to Hollywood Hills.

Yea they made lots of money playing folk guitar,
cos everywhere the boys went crazy just to hear these words of art:

"Checkin' in checkin' out,
Take it to the sky, making love
I like watching all your fireworks.
I like it when I light those stars in your eyes,
just like fireworks in the sky"

They're coming to get you.
They're coming to get you now.
Coming to get you now.

They're coming to get you.
They're coming to get you now.
Coming to get you now.

"Checkin' in checkin' out,
Take it to the sky, making love
I like watching all your fireworks.
I like it when I light those stars in your eyes,
just like fireworks in the sky"

Watch the sky!