History Music / Roxette

* TitledAfterTheSong: Named for [[Music/MotleyCrue Motley Crue's]] song "Roxette".

* BoxedSet: The [[JustForPun Rox Box]], issued in 2006 as a 20th anniversary celebration.

In 2002, the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Gessle went on to release solo albums before Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in eight years in 2009. They released three more albums in 2011, 2012 and 2016. Although the duo planned to release more studio material afterwards, Fredriksson's ill health proved too much of an obstacle, and her death on 9 December 2019 ended the possibility of any further Roxette work.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Marie often performed barefoot, as documented in the "Listen to Your Heart" video.

* {{Determinator}} \ PluckyGirl: After her struggle with cancer, Marie could no longer read or count, was blind in one eye and had some loss of movement in her right side. This did not stop her from performing a full world tour with the band, though she had to give up playing live.

Already successful in their homeland, their international breakout came when the song "It Must Have Been Love" was included on the soundtrack of the film ''Film/PrettyWoman'' and the highly successful single "The Look" was introduced on American radio by a Minneapolis [=DJ=] who was given a copy of the song by a student who bought the record while studying abroad in Sweden. The duo subsequently gained nineteen UK Top 40 hits, and four US number one singles. They continue to be popular in Europe and Latin America, whereas they'll always be remembered in the U.S. as being strictly an eighties band.

* ExcitedShowTitle: "How Do You Do!", "Crash! Boom! Bang!"

* TitledAfterTheSong: Named for Music/DoctorFeelgood's song "Roxette".

* StealthParody: Per Gessle has stated "Listen To Your Heart" was "us trying to recreate that overblown American FM-rock sound to the point where it almost becomes absurd."

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: From 1 ("Crash! Boom! Bang!") to 5 ("She Doesn't Live Here Anymore"). The band, at least after their first album, always had a rockier sound than a lot of their more pop-orientated contemporaries.

* ''Look Sharp!'' (1988)

In 2002, the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Gessle went on to release solo albums before Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in eight years in 2009. They released three more albums in 2011, 2012 and 2016, and although the duo planned to release more studio material afterwards, Fredriksson's ill health proved too much of an obstacle and her death on 9 December 2019 ended the possibility of any further Roxette work.

Already successful in their homeland, their international breakout came when the song "It Must Have Been Love" was included on the soundtrack of the film ''Film/PrettyWoman'' and the highly successful single "The Look" was introduced on American radio by a [=DJ=] who bought the record while on holiday in Sweden. The duo subsequently gained nineteen UK Top 40 hits, and four US number one singles. They continue to be popular in Europe and Latin America, whereas they'll always be remembered in the U.S. as being strictly an eighties band.