Pure Shores

Album: Saints & Sinners (2000)
Charted: 1
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was featured in the 2000 film The Beach. The movie is a drug story set in Thailand, and this song captures the main character's state of mind.
  • In the UK, this became the second best-selling single of 2000. It was awarded the 2000 Capital FM award for best song.
  • This was written by Shaznay Lewis and William Orbit in the States while the other 3 members of All Saints were making the flop film Honest.
  • The video for this song won the Loaded magazine award for best video of the year. The beach scenes on the video were filmed on Holkham Beach in Norfolk, England. Part of the 1976 film The Eagle Has Landed was also filmed there. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above

Comments: 1

  • Paul Marlo from Perthwhat do u mean the movie 'the beach' is a drug story set in thailand. the only drug part in this movie is two scenes where they pass through a marijuana crop. does this make it a "drug story filmed in thailand?"
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