IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE
ROXETTE
SONGWRITERS: פורר טל & GESSLE,PER HAKAN
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
ALBUM: IT MUST HAVE BEEN
LOVE
LABEL: EMI
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1987
Roxette was a Swedish pop rock duo,
consisting of Marie Fredriksson(vocals
and keyboards) and Per Gessle (vocals
and guitar). Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act in the late
1980s, when they released their breakthrough second album Look Sharp! Their third album Joyride,
released in 1991, became just as successful as its predecessor. Roxette went on
to achieve nineteen UK Top 40 hits, and several US Hot 100 hits, including
four US number-ones with "The Look",
"Listen to
Your Heart", "It Must Have
Been Love", featured on the soundtrack of Pretty Woman, and
"Joyride".
Their other hits include "Dressed for
Success", "Dangerous",
and "Fading Like a Flower".
Before coming together to form the duo,
Fredriksson and Gessle were already established artists in Sweden, she having released a
number of solo albums and he being the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider, a band
that had three Nº 1 albums. On the advice of the managing director of their
record label, the two came together to record "Neverending Love",
which became a hit single in Sweden.
After the release of Don't Bore
Us, Get to the Chorus!, a greatest hits record, the duo
took a hiatus before returning with the albums Have a Nice
Day(1999) and Room Service(2001).
They continued to chart in other territories, mainly in Europe, Australia and Latin 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.
Gessle went on to release solo albums and reunited with Gyllene Tider before
Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in eight years, in
2009, during Gessle's European Party Crasher tour. In 2011, they released Charm School,
their first studio album in ten years, which was followed by Travelling in 2012. Their final studio album, Good Karma, was
released in 2016. Marie Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019, at the age of 61,
following a long battle with a brain tumour.
Their songs "It Must Have Been
Love" and "Listen to Your Heart" continue to receive wide radio airplay, with
both singles receiving awards from BMI in 2014 for achieving five million radio plays. They have sold an
estimated 75 million records worldwide, with over 10 million in certified units
from Germany, the US and the UK, achieving gold and platinum certifications for
Joyride and Look Sharp! in all three regions. They are Sweden's
second-best-selling music act after ABBA.
It Must Have Been Love", originally
"It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)", is a
song written by Per Gessle and
performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette.
The power ballad became
the duo's third number one hit in the United States, and is one of their best
selling releases, being certified gold or platinum in a number of countries.
Four different versions of the song have been
officially released. The original song was released in 1987, which was followed
by the most successful incarnation, a slightly edited version, omitting the
Christmas references, created for the soundtrack to the 1990 film Pretty Woman.
During the "Join the Joyride! World Tour" in 1991, the band recorded
a country music version in Los Angeles,
included on their 1992 album Tourism.
A Spanish-language version of the Pretty Woman recording was released on their
1996 compilation Baladas en Español.
Finally, an orchestral live performance from the band's 2009 concert at Night of the Proms was included on their 2012 studio album, Travelling.
Must have been love
But it's over now
Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, this air of silence
In the bedroom and all around
Touch me now, I close my eyes
And dream away
It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched, 'til the time had
run out
Make-believing we're together
That I'm sheltered by your heart
But in and outside I turn to water
Like a teardrop in your palm
And it's a hard winter's day
I dream away
It must have been love, but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living
without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows
It's where the wind blows
It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched, 'til the time had
run out
Yeah, it must have been love, but it's over
now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living
without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows
It's where the wind blows
but it's over now
No, no, no
(It must have been love)
(But it's over now) but it's over now
No, no, no.
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