| Pure | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Midge Ure |
| Cover: | Midge Ure Pure album.jpeg |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Label: | Arista Records |
| Producer: | Midge Ure |
| Prev Title: | Answers to Nothing |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Breathe |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
Pure, released 16 September 1991, is the third solo album by former Ultravox frontman Midge Ure. It was the first release by Ure with a new record label BMG-Arista. The first single "Cold Cold Heart" reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1991.[1] "I See Hope in the Morning Light" and "Let It Go?" were also released as singles.[2] The album has a blend of ethnic rhythms and clean album-oriented rock pop, pervaded by catchy hooks.
It took Midge Ure two years to hammer together the material for Pure, both at his home studio in London and in the basement in his house on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, once he cleared away the damage wrought by the passing of Hurricane Hugo.
The album opens with "I See Hope in the Morning Light", a mixture of African rhythms and a gospel choir coupled with Uilliean pipes played by Paddy Moloney.
"I See Hope in the Morning Light'", was written about the possible release of Nelson Mandela, and recorded as a celebration. Ure said: "I hit a block and didn't finish the song until way after his release. That's the way it happens sometimes."[3]
The song "Tumbling Down" was inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989.
Midge Ure filmed the promo-videos to "Cold, Cold Heart" and "I See Hope" in Los Angeles.
Midge explained 1991:
"Let it Go?" question the idea of personal responsibility in the face of the worlds mountain of problems. Midge explained 1991: