You Don'T Understand Me (Abbey Road Sessions November 15, 1995 - Per Gessle Talks)

We are in the Abbey Road studios
The fourth song you recorded there, back in 1995
You Don't Understand Me

"You Don't Understand Me" is a song I wrote together with
An American guy called Desmond Child
Who has written so many wonderful songs over the years
Lot of hits for Bon Jovi and Alice Cooper and Cher and
He was like one of the main songwriters in the '90s

We played, or I played you don't understand me for Marie
'Cause she was in town and she said
"Oh, this is wonderful, I want to sing this"
And so she sang on the demo
And when, as soon as we done the demo with her
We knew that, shit, this is going to be a Roxette song
It has to be a Roxette song
She was singing it so beautifully

We recorded it for the compilation album
"Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus"
And that album came out at the time when we were in London at Abbey Road
So we decided to do, just a piano version of "You Don't Understand Me"
So it's Clarence Öfwerman, our producer, who's playing the piano
And Marie singing

So I was just um, sitting in the, by the mixing console and enjoying everything
Enjoying life
Eh, beau-, very beautiful, beautiful song and Marie is amazing
And Clearance is playing beautiful piano as well