Chords for Roxette - The Look | Het verhaal achter het nummer

Hello
[E] I'm Per [Am] Gessle and this is Stockholm.
This is actually the old EMI studio
And this is where we used to record most of the Roxette stuff.
Hey Jonas our [C#] lead guitar player
He was sitting there and we have [E] the drums there.
[A] He did everything.
So it's a magic place for me _
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_ _ The [A] first time personal passion was made like that situation
[B] _ That album was good
But it sounded like dated and I wanted Roxette to be a little bit more programmed and digital and modern
But there was no conflict between me and the producer.
He wanted to use his favorite musicians, but I was really lucky because our engineer
_ [G] He actually broke his leg
_ I'm sorry, Ola.
So we got another engineer, which was this amazing programmer and digital guy
So he came into the Roxette project and he and I and Clarence eventually the producer
We wanted Roxette to go into the computer world
So I bought a new synthesizer which included a [D] sequencer and I started to learning how to program that synthesizer
I wrote the look _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ This is how I tried to learn how to program this
_ _ No guitar intro just this three chords one finger
So [D] it was just like a throwaway basically how to how to learn how [A] to program the synthesizer.
So it was written for Marie
That's why I think he's got
She liked it a lot, but she said I can't really sing it because there is no melody
It's just like a almost like a rap thing
But then she said that I can I can sing the nanana part and I can sing I can do the answering in the [D] course
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[F#] And then then of course when we finished the song everyone raved about this song
but we I was really against releasing as the singer because the whole idea with Roxette was that
Marie was gonna sing the songs and I was basically this main songwriter
And the look is sung [A] basically by me.
So it didn't really make sense in my world to release that as a singer
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_ Swingin' through the blue, movin' like a hammer, [G] she's a miracle man
[D] Lovin' this picture, singin' this old song
She's [A] the look
In the summer of [D] 88 there was this [Am] exchange student from [E] America in Sweden and he became a big Roxette fan
So he moved back to Minneapolis and there on his favorite radio show KDWB
They had this radio show where
Listeners can call in and ask for their favorite songs or they can leave their records there
Oh if they didn't have the records on the radio station
So he went there and gave them the Look Sharp album
And of course then they hadn't heard about that and it was lying around there for a couple of weeks
So he went back to pick it up again.
They hadn't played it and
Fate had it then when he picked it up
the program director of the station
[C#] Was at the reception and the program director
_ Asked him that's a really cool album cover because it looks like a magazine, right?
What is it?
And he said it's a Swedish band.
Oh, is it good?
Yeah, it's amazing
So the program writer listened to the first song on the album and it was
Duh-dee-dee
It came [G#m] the look, out came the look and [N] he said this is an amazing song and he [A] put it on the air
And you know as soon as he put it on the air
Phones started to ring and what is this?
So that the rush released [E] a single because it was all over the radio and [A] in eight weeks
As soon as it became a single it took [E] eight weeks to go to number one
[A] Fate was on our side and it changed our [D] lives _
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[A] _ _ _ countries have this great [D] tradition of melodies that's in in our DNA
[E] if you listen to classic Swedish old song from the
19th century and it's it's very beautiful and it's very beautiful melodies
And I think we grew up listening to that kind of music
[A] I think you can hear that in ABBA for instance, and you can hear it very much in my music [G] as well _
[D] That particular is Roxette sound that we [A] had created that was made in this studio in Stockholm with a Swedish people and
[G] E-mining in the States who [D] wanted us to move to Los Angeles or at [A] least to New York or at least
London to be part of the international music scene, but we said no we don't want to do it because if we move to Los [D] Angeles
we would have sounded like Richard Marx or [E] or what was happening at the time in the States [A] and
The unique sound of Roxette if you listen to Roxette [G] today, it sounds very special from the [D] competition
It's because it was made here out of Sweden
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