What happened?
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2003 |
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What happened? is a music album released in 2003 by the group Pur .
Creation and publication
The group Pur had finished the tour for their album Mittendrin in December 2000 . The band members began working on the new album in 2001; Most of the songs were written in 2002, however. Front man Hartmut Engler described the album in retrospect as the group's most personal album. In the texts he himself processed, among other things, the separation from his wife ( last exit ), the death of his father ( waltz for you ) and the relationship with his children who are now separated from him ( I'll see you again soon ). He sang a duet with his new girlfriend Nubya .
On August 4, 2003, the first single from the album I think of you was pre-coupled; it was released as a CD single and as a DVD single with music video. In addition to the songs Please, God and Waltz for you , the CD single also exclusively contained the single Hier bin ich , which Pur had sung for the film Spirit - Der wilde Mustang . I think of you made it straight to the top of the chart and was also the group's first number 1 single.
In mid-July 2003, Pur presented their new album at two concerts in front of fans and sponsors in the Duisburg-Nord landscape park (including the old casting hall). The ZDF broadcast the concert as part of its series ZDF in Concert on September 7 ( Pur Special I ) and 4 October 2003 ( Pur Special II ) from. On September 8th, What happened? released; Thanks to a cooperation with AOL , the album was also available online in advance. On October 6th, the live double DVD Dashat Happened followed , which was based on both promotional concerts.
What happened? reached platinum status on the day of publication with around 350,000 units sold and entered the German album charts at number 1. The cover of the new album showed a male silhouette in different versions, which the group named Männle .
Pur went on tour through Germany from October 17 to December 2003; The tour started in the KölnArena . Pur completed the tour with a preliminary program for the first time: young singer Tom Albrecht accompanied the group on tour.
Track list
| No. | title | Author (s) | Producer (s) | length |
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| 1 | What happened? | Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl | Ingo Reidl, Martin Ansel | 4:56 |
| 2 | More than your mind | 3:49 | ||
| 3 | I am thinking of you | 3:21 | ||
| 4th | Last Exit | 4:26 | ||
| 5 | Waltz for you | 4:45 | ||
| 6th | The circle | 5:03 | ||
| 7th | duet | 4:51 | ||
| 8th | Saz | 6:06 | ||
| 9 | Light | 4:35 | ||
| 10 | Stupid | 3:21 | ||
| 11 | Please God | 7:16 | ||
| 12 | Good enough for you | 4:24 | ||
| 13 | I'll see you again soon | 3:53 |
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“Despite the many tearful ballads, Pur hardly succumb to the temptation to wrap their stories too dripping and greasy. A positive further development of the band ", the BZ found " With the new album Engler and Pur not only manage to overcome a musical crisis, but also great pop with songs that convey feelings of love and pain, sadness and death, end and new beginning ", wrote APA . What happened? is "a kind of musical therapeutic agent, an incentive to never give up", said the Südkurier , and wrote that Pur had "returned to the ground more than ever with the new album".
"Packed in sometimes surprisingly experimental and sometimes just as surprisingly honest arrangements, the songwriting duo Hartmut Engler / Ingo Reidl (key) celebrates row house rock to perfection," says the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung : Effect tasted great. Songs so beautiful that it hurts. "
Awards
What happened? received quintuple gold for more than 500,000 units sold by March 2004. In 2004 Pur won for What happened? an echo in the category “Group of the Year National - Rock / Pop”.
Web links
- What happened? at Discogs
- What happened? at Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 27, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christine Xuân Müller: Creativity from a crisis. Pur present very personal album - Engler sings duet with new friend Nubya . In: Nordkurier , October 2, 2003.
- ↑ Things are looking up. Hartmut Engler on the new Pur album . In: Rhein-Zeitung , September 5, 2003.
- ↑ Marko Völke: Pure singer finds new happiness . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , September 22, 2003.
- ↑ Jens Brüggemann: Oops: These are experiments that not every fan will like. laut.de, accessed on December 1, 2015.
- ↑ a b c ots: PUR 2003 - What is happening around "What happened?" . In: news aktuell , August 4, 2003.
- ↑ Pure from zero to one, Kraftwerk from zero to one: Capitol Music hits a double in the Media Control single and album charts . In: news aktuell , August 13, 2003.
- ↑ People people . In: Rheinische Post , July 16, 2003.
- ↑ Jörk Böhnk: And otherwise ... In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , August 27, 2003.
- ↑ a b wh: Pure self-confident: “This record has it”. In: APA W&B , September 10, 2003.
- ^ Nicole Hille-Priebe: The miracle of Bietigheim. “Pur” is on tour again: kick-off in front of more than 16,000 fans in the Kölnarena . In: Neue Westfälische , October 20, 2003.
- ↑ The main thing is that we stay healthy! Comeback: TLZ interview with Pur singer Hartmut Engler . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , October 1, 2013.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Pur: “What happened?” . In: BZ , September 5, 2003, p. 22.
- ↑ therapeutic agent . In: Südkurier , October 29, 2003.
- ↑ Steffen Könau: With the good uncles in the Deutschrock row house. The group Pur returns with 13 new songs and many questions . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 16, 2003.