Dressed for Success

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“Dressed for Success”
Single by Roxette from the album Look Sharp!
Released	June 1989 / Sweden: 28 June 1988
Genre	pop
Length	04:09
Label	EMI
Writer(s)	Per Gessle
Certification	Gold (Canada)
Roxette singles chronology
"The Look" (1988) "Dressed for Success" (1989) "Listen to Your Heart" (1989)

"Dressed for Success" was released on 28 June 1989 and is the second single from the Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1988 album Look Sharp!. Dressed For Success was a top 10 Australian hit in Sept '89. The recording of the song was marked by a dispute between the band members but this apparently contributed to the strength of Marie's performance :-

I was so mad when I did it. Everything about that session went wrong, we argued about the arrangement, we changed the key, I was dead tired of the song when I went in to do a guide vocal. Did it in one blast and suddenly realized, "hmm... this is it".

—Marie Fredriksson, Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! liner notes.[1]

Originally, "Dressed For Success" was their first Swedish single to promote Look Sharp! album in 1988.