Pearls of Passion

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Pearls of Passion
Pearls of Passion cover
Studio album by Roxette
Released October 31, 1986
Recorded EMI Studios, Stockholm, 1986
Genre Pop
Label EMI
Producer Clarence Öfwerman
Roxette chronology
Pearls of Passion
(1986)		 Dance Passion
(1987)

Pearls of Passion was Roxette's first album, released on October 31, 1986. It was rereleased internationally on CD on October 31, 1997 with some previously unreleased or single-only bonus tracks. The album was originally only released in Scandinavia and Canada.

Failing to get any promotion outside Sweden, the album peaked at #2 on the Swedish albums chart but failed to chart elsewhere. However, it caused Roxette to gain confidence record the following worldwide smash Look Sharp album.

"Neverending Love", "Goodbye to You", "Soul Deep" and "I Call Your Name" were released as singles. "It Must Have Been Love" was later used (with the reference to Christmas changed to a neutral winter reference (It’s a hard Christmas Day was replaced with It’s a hard winter’s day)) in the movie Pretty Woman. "Soul Deep" reappeared on their album Joyride in 1991 and "So Far Away" was recorded again for Tourism in 1992.

The album was followed by a compilation of re-mixes of those same songs, titled Dance Passion.

[edit] Track listing

LP/MC

  • Side A
  1. "Soul Deep"
  2. "Secrets That She Keeps"
  3. "Goodbye To You"
  4. "I Call Your Name"
  5. "Surrender"
  6. "Voices"
  • Side B
  1. "Neverending Love"
  2. "Call of the Wild"
  3. "Joy of a Toy"
  4. "From One Heart To Another"
  5. "Like Lovers Do"
  6. "So Far Away"

CD

  1. "Soul Deep"
  2. "Secrets That She Keeps"
  3. "Goodbye To You"
  4. "I Call Your Name"
  5. "Surrender"
  6. "Voices"
  7. "Neverending Love"
  8. "Call of the Wild"
  9. "Joy of a Toy"
  10. "From One Heart To Another"
  11. "Like Lovers Do"
  12. "So Far Away"
  13. "Pearls Of Passion" *
  14. "It Must Have Been Love" (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted) *
  15. "Turn To Me" *
  16. "Neverending Love" [Tits & Ass demo / 1986] *
  17. "Secrets That She Keeps" [Tits & Ass demo / 1986] *
  18. "I Call Your Name" [Montezuma Demo / 26.07.86] *
  19. "Neverending Love" [Frank Mono-Mix / 1987] *
  20. "I Call Your Name" [Frank Mono-Mix / 1987] *

(* Available only on the 1997 re-release version of the album)

[edit] Singles

  • Neverending Love:
    1. Neverending love
    2. Neverending Love (Love Mix)
  • Goodbye To You:
    1. Goodbye To You
    2. So Far Away
  • Soul Deep:
    1. Soul Deep (7" remix)
    2. Pearls Of Passion
  • I Call Your Name:
    1. I Call Your Name (7" remix)
    2. Surrender

[edit] Credits

"So Far Away": Per Gessle and Hasse Huss
  • Music – Per Gessle, except for the following:
"Voices": Music by Marie Fredriksson and Per Andersson
"Joy of a Toy": Music by Per Gessle and Mats "MP" Persson
"Turn to Me": Music by Marie Fredriksson
  • Drums – Pelle Alsing
  • Bass – Tommy Cassemar
  • Guitars – Jonas Isacsson
  • Keyboards – Clarence Öfwerman

Produced and arranged by Clarence Öfwerman.

All songs published by Jimmy Fun Music, except
"From One Heart To Another": Sweden Music AB,
"Voices" and "Turn To Me": Shock the Music/Jimmy Fun Music, and
"Soul Deep": Happy Accident Music