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RE = Reporter PG = Per Gessle PG: I always consider Roxette to be my priority and to be what's it all about for me. And so, I can't really see... I mean, Marie and I, we talk a lot, and we socialize a lot, so I can't really see an ending to Roxette. FC: A question coming from the Internet. EMI is going to take legal action against people who have Roxette images or soundfiles on their Homepages on the Internet. PG: Is that true? FC: Yea... that was actually a newspaper article where you were quoted that you agree with this. Now, the question is: don't you think that this will kill a lot of free promotion that you got on the Internet? PG: I got dragged into this discussion... this guy, this journalist... it was Oasis, or Sony actually, who did come out and said something, and he wanted me to comment on this, and I said, I don't have a comment because I haven't really read Oasis' statement or Sony's statement, and I can't comment anything, in Sweden it's like a full page just like this. So I just said to my press agent that one, two sentences, and she gave these two sentences, and it was like this big quote. And the only thing I said was that I think that the copyright should always be taken care of. It's the same with piracy, record piracy and everything. If artists, and it has nothing to do with successful artists or money or anything, it's just... if you are a writer of books or scripts or whatever and noone is taking care of your copyrights, it's gonna be chaos, and that reflects Internet as well, I mean, if it's a problem for the record industry or the book industry or the movie industry or whatever that the Internet is getting out of hand, I think something should be done about it. That's the only thing I said, so I think... I mean, there is, of course, the Internet promotes for us. I've never seen this as a problem for Roxette. I mean, if I go and seek on Roxette, I find like 50 Homepages from Roxette... FC: At least, yea... PG: Yea, and I don't have a problem with that at all, as long as people are not selling my new album there if it's not a legal album, you know. That's what I think the industry is talking about. Oasis probably just sees a lot of merchandise being sold which they don't have control of, or, I mean, illegal stuff, and so they probably... since they are selling tons and tons of things that we don't do, they probably feel like they are losing a lot of money, so they want to stop it and I can understand that, you know. Because Internet should be, just like you said, it should be like a big thing for everyone, it's a fantastic thing, but it shouldn't be used for illegal things. And if someone... so the only thing I was basically talking about was basically to protect copyrights. RE: I've heard that the first Roxette album is re-released in December... PG: Yea, October! RE: There are plans about a CD-ROM part because the album is just about 45 minutes long and so there's some space for CD-ROM activities? PG: Yea, we've talked about that. We've talked about releasing it and put some bonus tracks on it, B-sides and stuff that was hard to find, and also put on maybe three or four of the old ridiculous videos that we made in the early days, which I think should definitely be out so we can, you know, stand in the corner and be very shameful, embarassed. That's the way we are! No skeletons in the closet! |