"They said they had David Bowie on board. They had Go West, Natalie Cole.... and they wanted us to write a song for the soundtrack”: How Roxette repurposed a Christmas song for the Pretty Woman soundtrack and ended up with a US number one

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The first Roxette album, 1986’s Pearls Of Passion, produced a couple of decent-sized Swedish hits but nothing more. It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted) - YouTube Watch On“When I make demos, I keep them very simple. It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken Hearted) duly was a big hit in Sweden that holiday season. “But… I have a Christmas song,” he remembered. And so It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken Hearted) was repurposed; upcycled, in modern parlance.