{"id":561877,"date":"2026-07-27T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:16:09","slug":"roxette-calls-off-40th-anniversary-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561877\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxette Calls Off 40th Anniversary Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Fans hoping to celebrate Roxette&#8217;s 40th anniversary stateside will have to keep waiting, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/roxette-tour-1237003559\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>. Per Gessle announced on Instagram that Live Nation has postponed the Swedish pop duo&#8217;s planned North American tour, citing &#8220;logistics and hugely increased touring costs.&#8221; Gessle now performs Roxette&#8217;s hits with singer Lena Philipsson, after Marie Fredriksson&#8217;s death from cancer in 2019. Gessle said the duo is disappointed, noting the US &#8220;is by far our biggest streaming market.&#8221; The scrapped dates come just as &#8220;It Must Have Been Love&#8221; passed 1 billion views on YouTube, notes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/roxette-it-must-have-been-love-youtube-billion-views-club-1236301230\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>, underscoring the group&#8217;s enduring pull more than three decades after its radio heyday. The duo had been slated to tour with fellow &#8217;80s favorites Taylor Dayne and Nick Lowe, notes <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/roxette-cancels-tour-in-north-america-touring-costs-1236820989\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Fans hoping to celebrate Roxette&#8217;s 40th anniversary stateside will have to keep waiting, reports Deadline. Per Gessle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,91541,409,2076],"class_list":["post-561877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-live-nation","tag-music","tag-pop-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}