"Roxette": songs and money.
"Roxette": songs and money.
Nikolay SOLDATENKOV.
The CAPITAL of Austria has met a torrential rain at the zero
To temperature. "I very much hurry", - I have told to the elderly taxi driver. "JA-ja,
natjurlih ", - he has nodded a head, but speeds on kilometre not
Has added.
I needed to look stupidly only, how arrows of hours
Inevitably come nearer to that figure which has been specified in the letter
EMI Records. "Guaranteed time of your interview to group
"Roxette" about a new album "Have a Nice Day" the such. Except you,
There will be still journalists from three editions ". Actually journalists,
The different countries representing mass media, was
The person 40-50.
The Russian press has been presented only by a weekly journal
"Arguments and the facts", TV - the channel "MTV Russia".
Appear Mari Fredriksson, the fragile, suntanned blonde, and
High, radiating with health Per Gessl. Greetings. Hand shakes.
(Here I somehow incorrectly took her hand, it is a little having twisted a little finger
And - ups! - Mari has hastily liberated a brush. Yes, she can be understood -
Such hands should be protected, they really "gold").
- There is an opinion, that the basic secret of your popularity -
In that you sing exclusively in English...
Per: - Is not present, it - not the most important thing. We will admit, at us, in Sweden,
Or here, in Austria, the American films duplicate on languages. And
What? Though it also sounds ridiculously when Klint Eastwood speaks:
"Das ist a buzzing", but the success of a film from it does not become less,
Correctly? And we, Swedes - people disciplined and
Performing any job very qualitatively, - we take English
Or the American music, we do it better, and it is then successful it
We sell.
- Working over a plate, you somehow count success?
Means financial, first of all.
Mari: - Is not present. Process of creation of a song - a question very thin.
What it now will turn out, such and remains for ever. Therefore
It is necessary to give all the best under the full program... Creativity is
Something very personal, here it is involved smothering, and any
Material thoughts can hurt only, from questions of the finance
Better during such periods completely to be disconnected.
- For years of the musical career you have earned much
Money. It has somehow changed your life?
Per: - We as people have not changed at all - what were,
Such also remained. As actors we feel now
Much more freely and more confidently because at us is some
Financial reinforcement. Anybody in the creative plan to us cannot
Anything to impose. In this sense all is very good...
(Still, Per Gessl - one of the richest people in Sweden. It
Status estimate in 18 million dollars. Only in 1997 it has given
To the state in a 1,5 million type of tax - the Comment of the author.).
- In Sweden such huge taxes... Whether wish to get over
There, where they it is less?
Per: - Is not present, all these rounds, show, infinite moving - after
It so it is pleasant to come back home. And to go somewhere, something to change
- No, such thoughts are not present.
- Whether there are in memory at least any impressions of those
Cities where you happen to concerts?
Per: - Understand, in tour you do not belong to yourself: you arrive
- You there and then carry on press conference, then in hotel, then on
Radio, on shooting. You look out of the window the car, you understand - aha,
It is any other city. Only you start to be guided in
Space - as in the evening a concert, a party after a concert,
The plane and - all.
- To you, Mari, as mothers of two small children, probably,
It is difficult to go in long rounds? Mari: - it is final. But with another
The parties, I constantly feel a certain hunger - in good sense of it
Words - on an audience, on a sound of guitars, drums, on fans, on
To flights. Passion remained...
- And if children want the same nomadic life?
Mari: - nobody will stop or advise Them
To be engaged in something to another. And if will want to become not musicians,
And, say, lawyers - the same. There would be a desire, we will help.
Per (swinging a head): - "the Daddy, I wish to become the lawyer..." Hm...
I do not know...
- Per, in 14 years you, imitating David Bowie, have painted hair in
Red colour (at school at Gessla were in all subjects, except
Music, the worst estimations. - a comment of the author). As your parents
Have reacted to it?
Per: - it is normal. And even then, when I have started to play
To school group, mum with the daddy have arrived atypically for people
The generation - they have allowed to be engaged to me in it and never
Tried to forbid. I remember, when I still the small came to the
To friends in a hall where they rehearsed, at me simply spirit
Grasped from one kind of guitars, from a live sound which went on
Me. After that I, by the nature constraining enough
The person, has overcome itself, has collected the command and has stepped on the stage. And to
This time on it I stand, by the way, - has finished Gessl, with a smile
Looking at the manager which circles went for a long time already round us.
The author expresses gratitude Gala Rekordz - official
To representative EMI in Russia for the help in the interview organisation.
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