Pure And Simple

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This single had the third fastest selling opening week (550,000 copies sold) in UK chart history and the biggest ever by a debut act and a non-charity record.

This was co-written by Alison Clarkson, who previously had solo success with songs such as " Doin' The Do" under the name of Betty Boo. BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles even recorded a parody version of "Pure and Simple" that included the song lyrics from these two songs. The chorus has a fantastic hookline, and the melody is exactly as it says, pure and simple, which is why this song works. The song was also a number-one hit in New Zealand, where it topped the RIANZ Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks in July and August 2001, earning a gold certification for selling over 25,000 copies. The judges reduced the contestants to a group of ten, before visiting each of them at their homes to reveal whether or not they had been selected for the group.After following the tv show i was slightly worried they would produce more manufactured rubbish but bin this at your peril! It was a cover of the original version recorded three years earlier by English-Dutch girl group Girl Thing, who were dropped from BMG before the song was given to Hear'Say. Pure and Simple" is a song by British pop group Hear'Say, the winners of the UK version of Popstars. Their record was beaten a year later by Will Young, the first UK Pop Idol, with his debut single "Anything Is Possible/Evergreen," which sold over 1 million in its first week. They initially announced five dates which quickly sold out, causing the band to schedule thirty more dates.

Pure and Simple" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart after selling 550,000 copies in its first week, which, at the time, made it the fastest-selling debut single of all time in the United Kingdom. They were created through the ITV reality TV show Popstars in February 2001, the first UK series of the international Popstars franchise.The five unsuccessful finalists went on to form the group Liberty (later renamed Liberty X after a legal dispute).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Take Me Home Country Roads" is set in West Virginia, but John Denver had never been there when he recorded the song. Despite this, Noel Gallagher took no legal action due to his own self-confessed borrowings from other artists. I dont know how people could say hear'say have no talent, after all wasn't it their voices that got them here in the first place? Hear'Say's popularity had been eclipsed by that of Liberty X, a band composed of the five other finalists of Popstars. Popstars sold 306,631 copies in its first week, breaking yet another record for fastest-selling debut album.

Tabloids began reporting that Kym Marsh, who had gained attention due to her relationship with former EastEnders actor Jack Ryder, had left the band following feuds with bandmate Myleene Klass.Hear'Say achieved instant fame, breaking chart records with their debut single " Pure and Simple" and the album Popstars. Pure and Simple" was released on 12 March 2001 in the United Kingdom and received a continental European release in April 2001. Bridge over troubled water, a cover, but you only have to listen to this once to love it, and the third song - i can't stop thinking about it - a faster one. The group, who were signed to Polydor Records, originally consisted of Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Kym Marsh, Suzanne Shaw, and Noel Sullivan. Controversy erupted when it was found out that Shentall had previously been a member of short-lived pop group Boom!