It Must Have Been Love: Roxette`s power ballad is a masterpiece of pain
(The Guardian Culture News)

By following the Motown blueprint of blending ecstatic music with agonised lyrics, Roxette created the ultimate breakup song - and the late Marie Fredriksson delivered it perfectlyNews: Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61There´s a case to be made that Roxette´s It Must Have Been Love - sung by Marie Fredriksson, who has died after a 17-year health battle - is the greatest 80s power ballad of them all, and perhaps the greatest breakup song.It´s certainly one of the biggest. The epic chorus - `It must have been love, but it´s over now` - is the sort of thing anyone can bellow, in an arena or the bath. When I saw Roxette in Manchester in 2012, the signature tune was the climax of the night, greeted with massed singing and beach balls in the audience. Frederiksson was already visibly - and occasionally audibly - frail, and yet seemed to summon up vast reserves of passion and emotion, which she poured into the Swedish band´s biggest global hit. Continue reading...