Roxette - Travelling (2012)
🎵 Roxette – Travelling (2012)
Travelling is the eleventh studio album by Roxette, released in 2012 by EMI Records. It is a follow-up companion album to 2011’s Charm School, featuring live recordings, reworked classics, and new studio tracks recorded during Roxette’s extensive Charm School World Tour.
The album captures the energy of Roxette on the road, blending live performance intensity with polished studio sound, offering fans both nostalgia and fresh material.
📀 Tracklist
- Way Out (Live)
- Speak to Me (Live)
- Only When I Dream (Live)
- She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
- It Just Happens
- Why Don’t You Bring Me Flowers? (Live)
- Big Black Cadillac (Live)
- Stars (Live)
- In My Own Way (Live)
- Some Other Summer (Bette Davis)
- No One Makes It on Her Own (Live)
- Need You Now (Live)
- Travelling [New Studio Track]
Note: Some regional editions include additional live tracks or remixes.
🎙️ Album Credits
- Vocals: Marie Fredriksson
- Vocals / Guitar / Keyboards / Songwriting: Per Gessle
- Producer: Christoffer Lundquist
- Label: EMI Records
- Supporting Musicians: Touring band and session players for guitars, keyboards, bass, and drums
🔍 Musical Style & Context
Travelling is a hybrid live/studio album capturing:
- Live versions of tracks from Charm School with crowd energy and spontaneous nuances
- Reworked Roxette classics to fit modern live arrangements
- New studio tracks blending pop-rock, ballads, and contemporary production
- Lyrics emphasizing love, reflection, and the experience of life on tour
The album reflects Roxette’s mature stage presence and their ability to connect with audiences internationally.
🎯 Fun Facts & Trivia
- The album’s title, Travelling, refers to Roxette’s global touring lifestyle and the energy captured on stage.
- “She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)” was one of the new studio tracks and became a chart hit in Europe.
- Most of the live recordings were captured during the Charm School World Tour, spanning Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
- Roxette intentionally mixed live imperfections with polished production to give fans a genuine tour experience.
- The album serves as a document of Roxette’s live capabilities late in their career, while still introducing new material.
🤯 Did You Know?
- “Some Other Summer (Bette Davis)” was a new track recorded specifically for this album, showing Roxette’s continued songwriting creativity.
- The album charted top 10 in multiple European countries, proving Roxette’s sustained popularity decades into their career.
- Travelling bridges Charm School studio material with live tour performances, making it unique in Roxette’s discography.
- Marie Fredriksson’s vocals remained powerful and expressive, even in live recordings, despite health challenges earlier in her career.
