Stories of Famous Songs: Tourism (1992)

After an exhausting world tour Join the Joyride!, on which Roxette played for 1.7 million people on four continents in a hundred concerts, the duo decided not to release a classic album, but to capture the atmosphere of the journey itself. In the booklet for the album, they explained it clearly: it is not a live album, but a "tour album" – they recorded music continuously between concerts, wherever they could. Some of the songs were created in studios in Rio de Janeiro or Los Angeles, others even in a hotel room in Buenos Aires (at the Alvear Palace Hotel) or on the march in an empty nightclub in São Paulo. In addition, the album contains three real live recordings, including from a Sydney concert in December 1991. American critics were quite confused about the concept at the time, and several reviews mistakenly described the album as just a recording with five new songs – as a result, Tourism sold only about 278,000 copies in the US, a fraction of the million-dollar Joyride.

How Do You Do! – date with Chaplin and Armstrong on the roof

The opening single and the most successful song from the album stopped just below the top of the charts in several countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland) and even took first place in Norway.

A clip with guests from the golden era of Hollywood. The video was directed by Anders Skog and its concept is quite unusual among Roxette's clips – Per and Marie enjoy a summer day on the roof of a building, while archival black-and-white film news with famous personalities of the past: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kay, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Rooney are cut around them. The combination of the contemporary duo with guests from a long-gone era of film gives the clip a nostalgic, almost surreal touch that fits the song's light-footed, calm mood surprisingly well.

Queen of Rain – the last video shot with director Matt Murray

The ballad "Queen of Rain" was written by Per and became the second single from the album. The song is one of the most popular among fans today, even though it did not reach the success of older singles in the charts.

A clip on an island where the sea came to see them. The video was shot by American director Matt Murray in one of the most photogenic places in the world – on the tidal island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy and in the nearby Château d'Ô near the city of Argentan. Filming had to be extremely fast due to the tide – the island turns into a peninsula in a few hours with the incoming water, and the crew had to literally run away from the rising sea with their equipment. Murray later wrote about the clip that it was his last joint video project with Roxette. An interesting fact on the side: a few months later, in the spring of 1993, Per and Marie were filming a video for the song "Almost Unreal" – at that time, Marie was nine months pregnant with her daughter Inez Josefin (born at the end of April 1993) and the video is deliberately filmed so that the pregnancy is not visible.

Fingertips '93 – the beginning of a long friendship with Jonas Åkerlund

The third and final single from the album was released in only a handful of countries (Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain) and did not reach a wider audience until a few months later, when it was included as a B-side to the single "Almost Unreal" from the soundtrack to the Super Mario Bros. movie.

A video that kicked off one of the band's most important directorial collaborations. Although "Fingertips '93" is now a rather marginal item in Roxette's catalog, its clip has an unexpectedly great historical significance – it was the very first music video made for Roxette by Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund. At that time, the little-known creator became so close to the duo that he became one of their busiest collaborators – by the end of their joint career, he had finally shot a total of twelve music videos for them, far more than any other director. Fans now know him mainly from his later, significantly more stylized clips for songs from the album Crash! Boom! Bang! – but it all started with this modest, little-known song.