The Change is the sixth album by Swedish

Music of Sweden

Sweden shares the tradition of Nordic folk dance music with its neighboring countries including polka, schottische, waltz, polska and mazurka. The accordion, clarinet, fiddle and nyckelharpa are among the most common Swedish folk instruments. This instrumental genre is the biggest one in Swedish...

 pop singer

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 and songwriter Marie Fredriksson

Marie Fredriksson

is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for forming one half of the pop duo Roxette, which she created together with Per Gessle in 1986...

, and her solo debut in English. Written and recorded during two years of medication and darkness after the removal of a brain tumour in September 2002. Features the singles "2nd Chance", "All About You" and "A Table In The Sun", as well as other songs full of vital power and confidence that came to life after Marie transformed sorrow and pain into lyrics and music together with her husband Mikael Bolyos.

This album has been released with the Copy Control

Copy Control

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 protection system in some regions.

Track listing

All songs written by Marie Fredriksson, except where noted.

1. "The Change" - 4:08
2. "2nd Chance" - 3:24
3. "All You've Gotta Do Is Feel" (Mikael Bolyos) - 4:05
4. "April Snow" - 4:37
5. "Love 2 Live" (Mikael Bolyos, Gary T'to) - 2:55
6. "Mother" (Mikael Bolyos) - 5:11
7. "Many Times" (Mikael Bolyos) - 3:56
8. "All About You" (Mikael Bolyos) - 3:32
9. "The Good Life
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   " ('La belle vie') (Sacha Distel
   Sacha Distel
   Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.-Career:Sacha Distel, born Alexandre Distel, was a son of Russian White émigré Leonid Distel...
   
   , Jack Reardon - Jean Brousolle) - 3:59
10. "The Bad Moon" - 4:56
11. "A Table In The Sun" - 4:08
12. "The Change - Orchestra" - 4:39

B-sides

• "April Snow" (Alternative version) (Marie Fredriksson) - 4:34
  B-side to "All About You"

Formats and release-dates

• Swedish CD

(7243 8631812 1; 10 October 2004)

• Swedish limited edition digipack

(7243 8636752 5; 27 October 2004)

• South African CD

(CDEMCJ (WFL) 6183; 19 November 2004)

• Brazilian CD

(7243 8631812 1; 20 December 2004)

• Taiwanese CD

(0 7243 8631812 1; 23 December 2004)

• Japanese CD

(TOCP 66352; 13 January 2005)

Marie's comments on the album

"Making The Change feels like a victory to me. An incredible cool and fantastic feeling that's hard to describe in words. I had thoughts and plans of a solo album in English for a long while. Suddenly it felt necessary to do this. I wanted to share emotions and experiences from our worst time. There were moments where I thought I didn't have the strength to finish the work, but I got it, little by little."

Album credits

• Produced by Mikael Bolyos.
• CD-mastering by Claes Persson at CRP Recording.
• Drawings by Marie Fredriksson.
• Design by Kjell Andersson and Pär Wickholm.

Singles

#	Title	Date
1.	"2nd Chance"	10 October 2004
2.	"All About You"	1 December 2004
3.	"A Table In The Sun"	18 May 2005