"Fireworks" | ||||||||
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Single by Roxette | ||||||||
from the album Crash! Boom! Bang! | ||||||||
Released | 9 September 1994 | |||||||
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Genre | Pop rock | |||||||
Length | 3:40 | |||||||
Label | EMI | |||||||
Writer(s) | Per Gessle | |||||||
Producer(s) | Clarence Öfwerman | |||||||
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"Fireworks" is a song by the Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 18 July 1994 as the third single from their fifth studio album Crash! Boom! Bang!. It achieved moderate success in various European countries, peaking within the top twenty in Austria and Finland, and reaching number thirty on the UK Singles Chart.
The song was the only internationally released single by Roxette to be omitted from their career retrospective The Rox Box, which included every other single released by the duo up to 2006, and it has never appeared on any of the duo's compilation albums—excluding the Jesus Jones remix of the song included on Rarities (1996). In an interview with The Daily Roxette in 2009, Per Gessle was asked why the song was ignored on compilations, saying: "I guess it just wasn't big enough. There are so many other [Roxette] tracks that kick its ass. And on The Rox Box, we decided to use demos and other uplifting stuff instead."
The music video was directed by Irish filmmaker Michael Geoghegan, who also directed videos for their preceding three singles: "Almost Unreal", "Sleeping in My Car" and "Crash! Boom! Bang!". The video centers around twin sisters who emigrate from the Swedish countryside to London, in pursuit of fame and fortune. In London, the sisters are seen at various locations, including Piccadilly Circus and the London Underground. During the song's bridge, the sisters are seen being subjected to a sexual assault underneath a bridge. They return to Sweden, and, at the end of the video, their younger brother is revealed to be Per Gessle.
All songs written by Per Gessle.