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The Verve
Clockwise left to right: Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones, Nick McCabe, and Peter Salisbury
Clockwise left to right: Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones, Nick McCabe, and Peter Salisbury
Background information
OriginFlag of England Wigan, England
Genre(s)Space Rock
Shoegaze
Alternative Rock
Britpop
Dream Pop
Neo-Psychedelia
Years active1989–1999
2007-present
Label(s)Hut Records/ Virgin Records/ Vernon Yard
Associated
acts
The Shining
Websitehttp://www.theverve.co.uk/
Members
Richard Ashcroft (vocals)
Nick McCabe (guitar)
Simon Jones (bass)
Peter Salisbury (drums)
Former members
Simon Tong (guitar, keyboards)1996-1999

The Verve (originally Verve) are an English alternative rock band formed in 1989 at Winstanley Sixth Form College, Metropolitan Borough of 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 split in April 1999, and reunited in June 2007. The band has announced an album due at the end of the northern-hemisphere summer and a tour scheduled for November 2007.

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 the album Urban Hymns and its single "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which became a massive worldwide hit. Soon after this commercial peak, the band broke up citing creative struggles between band members. By then The Verve had become one of the most influential British alternative rock acts of the decade.

Mike Gee of iZINE said, "...The Verve, as he promised, had become the greatest band in the world. Most of the critics agreed with him. Most paid due homage. The Verve were no longer the question mark or the cliché. They were the statement and the definition."


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