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 acclaimed records. 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.
History
Formation and Verve (1990
All Verve lyrics
- 6 O�clock
- A Man Called Sun
- A New Decade
- A Northern Soul
- All In The Mind
- Already There
- Beautiful Mind
- Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Blue
- Brainstorm Interlude
- Butterfly
- Catching The Butterfly
- Come On
- Country Song
- Drive You Home
- Endless Life
- Feel
- Gravity Grave
- History
- I See The Door
- Life�s An Ocean
- Lord I Guess I'll Never Know
- Lucky Man
- Make It �till Monday
- Neon Wilderness
- No Come Down
- No Knock On My Door
- On Your Own
- One Day
- One Way To Go
- See You In The Next One
- See You In The Next One (Have A Good Time)
- She�s A Superstar
- Slide Away
- So It Goes
- Sonnet
- Space And Time
- Space & Time
- Star Sail
- Stormy Clouds
- The Drugs Don�t Work
- The Rolling People
- The Sun Sea
- The Sun, The Sea
- This Is Music
- This Time
- Twenty One
- Twilight
- Velvet Morning
- Virtual World
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