"I wrote It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted), as it was originally titled, on the grand piano at home in Halmstad. I'd already started it as a love song: It must have been love, but it's over now. But after the German label's request, I added in a solitary reference to Christmas in the second verse. It was spring and I wasn't feeling very Christmassy. I got 4,000 cards for my birthday. Today, the song is approaching a billion streams"
"We recorded it in time for Christmas 1987 and in Sweden it went Top 5. But EMI Germany hated it and didn't want it. A couple of years later, after we'd had other hits, EMI called from Los Angeles asking me to write a song for Pretty Woman, a film starring Richard Gere and a then unknown Julia Roberts. The soundtrack already had David Bowie and Robert Palmer,"
The songwriter was in Sweden's biggest band in his early twenties and sank into depression after the group's collapse. He formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson and sought international success, targeting Scandinavia and Germany. EMI Germany suggested a Christmas song, so he adapted an unfinished love song into It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted). Marie recorded the difficult vocal and the single reached Sweden's Top 5 in 1987, though EMI Germany initially rejected it. Years later the song was reworked for the film Pretty Woman and then achieved widespread global success.
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