"Salvation" | ||||
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Single by Roxette | ||||
from the album Have a Nice Day | ||||
B-side | "See Me" and "Crazy About You" | |||
Released | 22 November 1999 | |||
Format | CD | |||
Recorded | January–April 1998 | |||
Studio | El Cortijo Studios, Marbella | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 4:04 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Per Gessle | |||
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"Salvation" on YouTube |
"Salvation" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 22 November 1999 as the fourth and final single from their sixth studio album, Have a Nice Day.
The song was released on CD as the album's fourth and final single on 22 November 1999, and was backed by b-sides "See Me" and "Crazy About You"—both outtakes from Crash! Boom! Bang!, the duo's 1994 studio album. "Crazy About You" had previously been released – in a slightly remixed form – as a b-side on the duo's 1995 single "You Don't Understand Me", while this is the first release of the Marie Fredriksson-composed "See Me". This song would go on to feature on a number of releases: as a bonus track on deluxe editions of their 2002 compilation The Ballad Hits, on both Roxette box sets The Rox Box/Roxette 86–06 (2006) and The RoxBox!: A Collection of Roxette's Greatest Songs (2014). A newly-recorded version of the song was later released on their ninth studio album Travelling (2012). The single also includes the music video of preceding single "Stars".
The video for "Salvation" was directed by Dutch director Anton Corbijn, and was shot in both Naples and Amalfi in Italy in October 1999. The song became a top 20 hit in Finland, but failed to replicate the success of preceding singles elsewhere: charting at number 46 in the duo's native Sweden, and at number eighty in Germany. A Spanish-version of the track, titled "Lo siento", achieved minor airplay in Spanish-speaking regions.
All lyrics and music by Per Gessle, except "See Me" music by Marie Fredriksson.