Pure And Simple

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It was also the third-fastest-selling single in UK chart history at that point, behind " Do They Know It's Christmas? The song also topped the New Zealand Singles Chart for five weeks and reached number three in Ireland. The chorus has a fantastic hookline, and the melody is exactly as it says, pure and simple, which is why this song works. Pure and Simple" is a song by British pop group Hear'Say, the winners of the UK version of Popstars.

The group, who were signed to Polydor Records, originally consisted of Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Kym Marsh, Suzanne Shaw, and Noel Sullivan. It took her only 30 minutes to pen this and she discussed her songwriting with the Metro newspaper March 31, 2006: "I quit the industry and eventually got back into it when I was asked to work on Simon Cowell's girl group, Girl Thing. The song was co-written by Pete Kirtley, Tim Hawes and Betty Boo (under her real name of Alison Clarkson); however, nearly 14 years after the song was released, Linzi Martin of the band Girl Thing made the assertion that she was responsible for the majority of the song's composition, having written the verses after Pete Kirtley (her then boyfriend) had brought the chorus of the track to her as a gift. 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.With the release of their debut album Popstars, Hear'Say became the first act in UK chart history to simultaneously top the UK Singles Chart and UK Albums Chart with their debut releases. 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? 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.

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. During the summer of 2002, the group toured the UK radio roadshows circuit, where they were constantly booed and abused by members of the public, with a performance in Brighton being cut short due to the animosity concerned – evidence of the degree of public animosity that had built up. Pure and Simple" was the fastest-selling debut single at the time, as well as the fastest-selling non- charity single – a record beaten a year later by Pop Idol winner Will Young.In March 2001, Hear'Say released their first single, " Pure and Simple", a cover of a little-known album track by Girl Thing. They initially announced five dates which quickly sold out, causing the band to schedule thirty more dates.

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.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The audition process was televised in segments of This Morning, an ITV daily morning show, mirroring the procedure during which the original members of Hear'Say were chosen. 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.