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Call them a spikier ABBA or a European Fleetwood Mac, but the fact is that from that point on, they were huge, dominating MTV and the radio charts until one day, for reasons that can only be explained by a radio demographics expert in some Madison Avenue tower, they no longer did.60:{"position":3,"content":"$61"} 62:{"position":4,"content":"“I remember hearing Nirvana for the first time. I started playing in the 1970s, and my first band was a punk band. So I just loved the grunge thing immediately. But it was the end of an era [of polished pop],” Gessle told the BBC in 2009."} 63:{"position":5,"content":"By the beginning of 2000, Frediksson and Gessle were distancing themselves from the Roxette name and working on low-key solo projects. Then in 2002, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Although she underwent successful surgery and follow-up treatment on the road to a full recovery, it marked the end of the road for Roxette."} 64:{"position":6,"content":"Throughout the decade there were occasional appearances together and anniversary compilation CDs, but it wasn’t until 2009 when stirrings of a reunion began gathering steam."} 65:{"position":7,"content":"In May of that year, an announcement was made that Roxette would reunite for the Night of the Proms in Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, and later that month, Fredriksson appeared onstage at the end of a Gessle concert to sing “It Must Have Been Love” and “The Look.”"} 66:{"position":8,"content":"2010

Better than ever

Swedish pop duo Roxette comes to Tel Aviv as part of its revival tour.