Pur (band)
Pur is a German pop band from Bietigheim-Bissingen.

History

The group was initially founded in 1975 under the name Crusade by Roland Bless and Ingo Reidl. Their first releases came out under the name Opus, but after an Austrian band with the same name had a huge hit single in Germany in 1985, they switched to the name Pur. Pur's first hit single in Germany was "Lena", released in 1990. In the 1990s and 2000s they had a string of #1 albums in Germany. The producer of Pur is Dieter Falk. The ThyssenKrupp commercials use a song named Abenteuerland, with a slogan named Developing the future.

Discography

Further reading (in German)
Larmann, Ralph, Pur: Unsere Geschichte in Fotografien & Texten. te Neues Buchverlag, Kempen 2001, .
Larmann, Ralph: PUR - Das ist passiert! Der Bildband zur Tournee 2003. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, .