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Roxette – Pearls of Passion album art

Contributed by Thomas Evensson on Jun 16th, 2021. Artwork published in
October 1986
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Roxette – Pearls of Passion album art 1
Calle Bengtsson. License: All Rights Reserved.

Pearls of Passion is Roxette’s debut album. Released in Sweden and in Canada of all places! It contains the hits “Neverending Love”, “Soul Deep”, and “Goodbye to You”. It didn’t make any noise whatsoever outside of Sweden. Designed by Kjell Andersson as all of EMI’s albums were back then. There was a CD re-release in 1997 where the fonts were subtly changed, ITC Fat Face became Poster Bodoni for instance.

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Back side. Inside joke: Rox 1 and Rox 2 mean Side 1 and Side 2. Rox1 in Swedish is pronounced Roxette. The track list is set in  Italic, loosely spaced and with roman caps.
Calle Bengtsson. License: All Rights Reserved.

Back side. Inside joke: Rox 1 and Rox 2 mean Side 1 and Side 2. Rox1 in Swedish is pronounced Roxette. The track list is set in Stempel Garamond Italic, loosely spaced and with roman caps.

Inner back sleeve.
Calle Bengtsson. License: All Rights Reserved.

Inner back sleeve.

Inner sleeve.
Calle Bengtsson. License: All Rights Reserved.

Inner sleeve.

Re-issue in 1997, using different fonts.
License: All Rights Reserved.

Re-issue in 1997, using different fonts.

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  • ITC Fat Face
  • Stempel Garamond
  • Poster Bodoni

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