The Big L.

This article is about the Roxette song. For the American hip hop recording artist, see Big L.
"The Big L."
Single by Roxette
from the album Joyride
B-side"One Is Such a Lonely Number" (demo)
Released26 August 1991 (1991-08-26)
RecordedJune 1990
StudioEMI (Stockholm, Sweden)
GenrePop rock
Length4:29
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Per Gessle
Producer(s)Clarence Öfwerman
Roxette singles chronology
"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)"
(1991) 		"The Big L."
(1991) 		"Spending My Time"
(1991)
Music video
"The Big L." on YouTube

"The Big L." is a song by Swedish pop duo Roxette. Written by Per Gessle, it was released on 26 August 1991 by EMI as the third single from their third studio album, Joyride (1991). The song became a top ten hit in Belgium, Ireland and Sweden, and was the highest-charting single released from Joyride in France. It also reached the top twenty in a number of other countries, including Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. Despite a US radio mix of the song appearing on CD versions of the single, it was never released as a single in North America.