Swedish pop-rock hitmakers Roxette will launch its 40th anniversary tour at Pine Knob on Sept. 10, the band announced Tuesday.
The show will mark the group’s first Detroit concert in 34 years.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday via Ticketmaster, and presales start at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Taylor Dayne will open, along with Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets.
Roxette were chart toppers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, hitting No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart with their singles “The Look,” “Listen to Your Heart,” “It Must Have Been Love” and “Joyride.” “Dangerous” and “Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)” both peaked at No. 2.
The duo was comprised of singer, songwriter and guitarist Per Gessle and vocalist Marie Fredriksson; Fredriksson died of cancer in 2019. Lena Philipsson will fill in on vocals.
Roxette’s 14-date tour wraps up Oct. 9 in Auburn, Washington, at the White River Amphitheatre.
The group’s last area concert was in February 1992 at Detroit’s Fox Theatre.
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Reporting by Adam Graham, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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