MARKS BEST MOVIE SONGS EVER (1955-99) COUNTDOWN ... NO. 57 IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE–ROXETTE (#1, 1990, Pretty Woman) The Swedish duo of Per Gessle and Marie Frederickson scored their third No. 1 hit in just over a year when a song they recorded three years earlier, It Must Have Been Love, hit the top for two weeks in June 1990. It was included in the movie and soundtrack of Pretty Woman, starring a 22-year-old, up-and-coming redheaded star from Georgia named Julia Roberts as a Los Angeles-based hooker who is contacted by New York businessman Edward Lewis for her services while he is on a trip. While he is there, he lets her do whatever she wants within reason and actually is a confidant to him on major decisions. The two fall in love though they dont know it until they part ... and this song plays in the backdrop as Vivian (Roberts character) is being taken back by limo to her own place near the end of the movie. Realizing how much he loved her, Edward finds Vivian and climbs up the fire escape to rescue his princess from the tower, which she told him earlier in the film was a fantasy she wanted to live out. It Must Have Been Love was a song, though, that was asked by EMI Germany to be written as a Christmas-time hit in 1987. Called It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted), the song hit the Top 10 in Sweden, but never, amazingly, was released in Germany. When asked to do a song for Pretty Woman by Touchstone Pictures, Marie and Per gave them the duos 2 1/2-year-old song. The song finished at No. 2 for the entire year of 1990 behind Wilson Phillips Hold On. This is the only song in the countdown for the Swedish duo, who scored more No. 1 songs than any other Swedish act in history in the U.S., Gessle saying about this third No. 1 song, Not bad for a song that was just lying around, gathering dust. Thoughts, memories? Enjoy!
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