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"Joyride"
Song
B-side"Come Back (Before You Leave)"

"Joyride" is a song by the Swedish rock duo Roxette. Written by Per Gessle, the song was released as the lead single from their third studio album, Joyride (1991), the follow-up to the duo's highly successful second studio album, Look Sharp! (1988). The single topped the charts across Europe and in Australia, Canada, and the United States, where it spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, their last to do so, in May 1991. In the UK, "Joyride" peaked at #4.

In interviews, Gessle states he got the idea for the opening line of this song from his girlfriend (now wife) who left a note on his piano that stated, "Hello, you fool, I love you."[1]

In the opening section of the song, a man is heard saying "Come on, join the joyride everybody, get your tickets here, step right this way"; the man who says this is Roxette's old tour manager and long-time friend Dave Edwards. This is an homage to The Beatles' song "Magical Mystery Tour", on which, during the opening section, Paul McCartney is heard saying "Roll up, roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour! Step right this way!" In the liner notes of Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, Gessle calls "Joyride" Roxette's "Magical Mystery Tour", and says he took the title from an interview in which Paul McCartney called writing songs with John Lennon a "long joyride".[2]

In 1991, Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Chipettes covered the song for their album The Chipmunks Rock the House.

During the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs this became the intro anthem to the Vancouver Canucks as they took the ice before each game.

Formats and track listings

CD maxi
  1. "Joyride" (7" version) – 4:01
  2. "Come Back (Before You Leave)" – 4:36
  3. "Joyride" (12" magicfriendmix) – 6:11
  4. "Joyride" (U.S. remix) – 4:05
7" single
  1. "Joyride" – 3:58
  2. "Come Back (Before You Leave)" – 4:34

Charts and sales

Chart successions

Order of precedence
Preceded by
"Crazy" by Seal
 Swedish number-one single
January 13, 1991 - April 24, 1991 (7 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Norwegian VG-lista number-one single
11/1991 - 17/1991 (7 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Crazy" by Seal
 European Hot 100 Singles number-one single
March 23, 1991 - May 25, 1991 (10 weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Wind of Change" by Scorpions
Preceded by Austrian number-one single
March 31, 1991 - June 2, 1991 (10 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams
 German number-one single
April 5, 1991 - May 24, 1991 (8 weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Wind of Change" by Scorpions
Preceded by
"Crazy" by Seal
 Swiss number-one single (first run)
April 7, 1991 - May 19, 1991 (7 weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Wind of Change" by Scorpions
Preceded by Dutch Top 40 number-one single
April 13, 1991 - April 20, 1991 (2 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
14 April 1991 - 28 April 1991 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
11 May 1991 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Wind of Change" by Scorpions
 Swiss number-one single (second run)
June 2, 1991 (1 week) 		Succeeded by
"Wind of Change" by Scorpions

References

  1. ^ "Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! album liner notes". www.pergessle.net.
  2. ^ Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! liner notes. EMI, 1995.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Joyride", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  4. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1991" (pdf) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  5. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  6. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  7. ^ Italian Single Chart Hit parade Italia (Retrieved May 31, 2008)
  8. ^ "Polish Singles Chart |".
  9. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  10. ^ Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
  11. ^ 1992 Australian Singles Chart aria.com (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
  12. ^ 1991 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
  13. ^ 1991 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
  14. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1991". Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  15. ^ "Austrian single certifications – Roxette – Joyride" (in German). IFPI Austria.
  16. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Roxette – Joyride". Music Canada.
  17. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Roxette; 'Joyride')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  18. ^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17.
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