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The Verve News

Members of The Verve, Goldfrapp team up for new band

Listen to tracks by The Black Ships online now

  • Jul 31, 2009

Rolling Stones' manager derides The Verve

Andrew Loog Oldham jokes about the 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' 'steal'

Verve guitarist to play one-off DJ set in London

Nick McCabe set to man the decks at Old Blue Last

  • Sep 22, 2008

The Verve: 'We're not splitting up'

Band say they're staying together despite spat rumours

The Verve cap reunion with number one album

Katy Perry remains top of single countdown

  • Aug 31, 2008

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Return Of White Rabbit @ Thekla

Return Of White Rabbit @ Thekla

ROWR Thekla (480x360)

Theoretical Girl 'Red Mist - New Video

Theoretical Girl 'Red Mist - New Video

The London-based songstress presents he impressive new promo for 'Red Mist'.

Kasabian NME Cover Shoot

Kasabian NME Cover Shoot

Join Kasabian for a Alice In Wonderland themed tea party as we go behind-the-scenes on their NME cover shoot.

Mystery Jets At Benicassim 2009

Mystery Jets At Benicassim 2009

Kai & Blaine hang out by the pool and reveal which new tracks they'll be playing at the festival.

Les Savy Fav Live Footage For Warp Films & ATP

Les Savy Fav Live Footage For Warp Films & ATP

Warp Films and ATP will take to the road over the next week with Brooklyn's Les Savy Fav for a unique UK theatrical tour 'One Night Only' - the show combines screenings of All Tomorrow’s Parties with live...

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The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (04:48)

Official Promo Video for The Verve's fantastic track 'Bittersweet Symphony'.

The Verve -  Lucky Man

The Verve - Lucky Man (05:05)

Official Promo Video for The Verve's fantastic track 'Lucky Man'.

Sonnet - The Verve

Sonnet - The Verve (04:25)

Sonnet My friend and me Looking through her red box of memories Faded I'm sure But love seems to stick in her veins you know Yes, there's love if you want it Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord Yes, there's love if...

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work (04:51)

Official Promo Video for The Verve's fantastic track 'The Drugs Don't Work'.

The Verve - Sonnet.

The Verve - Sonnet. (04:14)

Live at Haigh Hall, Wigan. 24 May 1998.

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The Verve Reviews

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Rather Be

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Forth

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Love Is Noise

The Verve; Carling Academy, Glasgow, Friday November 2 and Saturday November 3

The only reunion tour that could put Zeppelin in the shade kicks off and leaves us in no doubt: this is History

  • Nov 14, 2007

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The Verve Biography

The Verve (originally Verve) were an English rock band formed in Wigan, Greater Manchester in 1990, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. The members had met at Winstanley Sixth Form College. Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space rock, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and two albums. They also endured name and lineup changes, breakups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. Filter referred to them as "one of the tightest knit, yet ultimately volatile bands in history". The band's commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album Urban Hymns and its single "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which became a massive worldwide hit. Soon after this commercial peak, the band broke up in April 1999, citing internal conflicts. By then, The Verve had become one of the most influential English alternative rock acts in years. The band's original line-up reunited in June 2007. The band embarked on a tour later that year and released the album Forth in August 2008. A year later it was announced that the band had split up for the third time in their career.

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The Verve's Best Songs

  • 1. Bitter Sweet Symphony
  • 2. Lucky Man
  • 3. Sonnet
  • 4. Love Is Noise
  • 5. Bittersweet Symphony
  • 6. The Drugs Don't Work
  • 7. Catching The Butterfly
  • 8. Space and Time
  • 9. Weeping Willow
  • 10. Rather Be
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The Verve Discography

The Verve albums.

  • A Storm in Heaven - 21/06/1993 (Hut Recordings/GB)
  • A Northern Soul - 03/07/1995 (Hut Recordings/GB)
  • Urban Hymns - 29/09/1997 (Hut Recordings/GB)
  • Forth - 25/08/2008 (Parlophone/GB)
  • Forth (disc 1) - 25/08/2008 (Parlophone/GB)
  • Forth (disc 2) - 25/08/2008 (Parlophone/GB)

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