Pure and Simple

Pure and Simple

Infobox Single
Name = Pure and Simple


Artist = Hear'Say
from Album = Popstars
Released = March 12, 2001
Format = CD single: Worldwide
Recorded = 2001
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:47
Label = Polydor
Writer = Tim Hawes, Pete Kirley & Alison Clarkson
Producer = Tim Hawes & Pete Kirley
Chart position = * #1 (UK Singles Chart)
Last single =
This single = "Pure and Simple"
(2001)
Next single = "The Way to Your Love"
(2001)

"Pure and Simple" is a popular song, released as the debut single by Hear'Say, the original winners of the UK version of "Popstars". It was released as a double A-side with "Bridge Over Troubled Water", which was a fan favourite at the live shows.

The single spent 3 weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart and, at the time, it was the fastest selling debut single of all time in the UK, selling just under 550,000 copies in the first week, [cite web
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1228195.stm
title = Hear'Say hit number one
date = 18 March 2001
publisher = BBC News
accessdaymonth = 23 September
accessyear = 2007] a record beaten a year later by Will Young, the first UK "Pop Idol", with his debut single "Anything Is Possible"/"Evergreen". It was the second highest selling single of 2001 behind "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy, and in total, more than 1.2 million copies were sold. [cite web
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2289447.stm
title = Hear'Say split up
date = 1 October 2002
publisher = BBC News
accessdaymonth = 23 September
accessyear = 2007]

The song was a cover version of a song originally released a year earlier by Girl Thing, who were dropped from Polydor Records to make way for Hear'Say.

The song was co-written by Betty Boo under her real name of Alison Clarkson and has an uncanny resemblance to the Oasis song 'All around the world'.

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