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The Verve (originally Verve) is an English alternative rock band.

Biography

The Verve (originally Verve) is an English alternative rock band. The band was formed in 1989 at Winstanley College, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. Simon Tong later became a member. The band originally split in 1995, but reunited in 1996 to great commercial success. They split once more in April 1999. The band reunited once more in June of 2007, but this reunion was short lived and the band split again in August 2009.

Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to space rock and shoegazer music, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and two acclaimed records. They also endured name and lineup changes, breakups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. The band's commercial breakthrough was urban hymns and its single Bittersweet Symphony, which became a massive worldwide hit.

Soon after this commercial peak, the band quit amid creative struggles within, and Ashcroft went onto a successful solo career. Tong briefly joined Blur as a replacement for Graham Coxon. It is rumored that Simon Jones did a studio album with Ari Pap of the Floor Monks called 'Aint Nothing To It' and was never released because they both had bigger projects going on at the time. Close family and friends assure us its a fabulous indie/rock/alternate album and they really wish it would have been released.

The Verve were chosen to close the 2008 Glastonbury festival which they did with a set based on the classic 1997 album 'Urban Hymns'.

Discography:

A Storm in Heaven – (21 June 1993) #27 (UK)

A Northern Soul – (3 July 1995) #13 (UK)

Urban Hymns – (29 September 1997) #1 (UK) #23 (US)

Forth – (25 August 2008) #1 (UK) #23 (US)

EP: "The Verve" (1992)

Gravity Grave

A Man Called Sun

She's A Superstar

Endless Life

Feel

album: "A Storm In Heaven" (1993)

Star Sail

Slide Away

Already There

Beautiful Mind

The Sun, The Sea

Virtual World

Make It Till Monday

Blue

Butterfly

See You In The Next One (Have A Good Time)

album: "No Come Down" (1994)

No Come Down

Blue (USA Mix)

Make It Till Monday

Butterfly

Where The Geese Go

One Way To Go

Gravity Grave (Live Glastonbury '93)

Twilight

album: "A Northern Soul" (1995)

A New Decade

This Is Music

On Your Own

So It Goes

A Northern Soul

Drive You Home

History

No Knock On My Door

Life's An Ocean

Stormy Clouds

album: "Urban Hymns" (1997)

Bittersweet Symphony

Sonnet

The Rolling People

The Drug Don't Work

Catching The Butterfly

Neon Wilderness

Space And Time

Weeping Willow

Lucky Man

One Day

This Time

Velvet Morning

Come On

album: "Forth" (2008)

Sit And Wonder

Love Is Noise

Rather Be

Judas

Numbness

I See Houses

Noise Epic

Valium Skies

Columbo

Appalachian Springs

Let The Damage Begin[Bonus Track]

other songs:

All In The Mind

Monte Carlo

This Could Be My Moment