Urban Hymns

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The Verve to release deluxe 20th anniversary version of 'Urban Hymns' – NME". NME. 6 July 2017 . Retrieved 18 October 2017. Zane plays the new Verve single, avail until 30 Jun 08". BBC . Retrieved 8 December 2011. [ permanent dead link] Smashing Pumpkins Verve Wolverhampton Civic Hall". Tumblr.com. 11 September 1993 . Retrieved 14 October 2017. The best-selling albums of all time on the Official UK Chart". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 26 March 2020.

The band announced the new album's title: Forth, which was released in the UK on 25 August and the following day in North America. The album reached No.1 on the UK Albums Chart on 31 August. The lead single "Love Is Noise" was released in the UK on 3 August digitally and one week later (11 August) on its physical form, peaking at No.4 in the UK. [52] The song was a moderate success in Europe, charting at No.16 in the European chart (with 6 weeks in the Top 20). " Rather Be", the second single from the album, was released in November but did not become as successful as "Love Is Noise" was, peaking at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart. Further Live Material: Washington DC 9.30 Club 03.11.97 Brixton Academy 16.01.98 Manchester Academy 11.08.97 Keys To The World (2006) features a more contemplative sound than anything else Ashcroft has done to date. Folkier, with sheer soul overtones, the songs here are considered and affecting. ‘Music is Power’ samples Curtis Mayfield (one of Richard’s heroes) and there is an R&B old school template to ‘Break the Night’ with ‘Colour, Why Not Nothing’ and ‘Sweet Brother Malcolm’ that remind the listener that Ashcroft isn’t afraid to shine a light on his spiritual side. Top 40 Best Selling Albums: 28 July 1956 – 14 June 2009" (PDF). Official Charts Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 26 July 2011.

Jones, Alan (8 September 2017). "Official Charts Analysis: The Script debut at No.1 on albums chart". Music Week . Retrieved 9 September 2017. Tops de l'Année – Top Albums 1998" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 27 June 2021. For the first time, the Verve achieved commercial success with their new material. The first single, " Bitter Sweet Symphony", entered the UK charts at number 2 in June 1997. The BBC wrote that it "became one of the anthems of the year" and "became almost inescapable" after it was used in a television car advert. [25]

Soon after their commercial peak, The Verve disbanded in April 1999, citing internal conflicts. [8] According to Billboard magazine, "the group's rise was the culmination of a long, arduous journey that began at the dawn of the decade and went on to encompass a major breakup, multiple lawsuits, and an extensive diet of narcotics". [9] During an eight-year split, Ashcroft dismissed talk of a reunion, saying: "You're more likely to get all four Beatles on stage." [8] The band's original line-up reunited in June 2007, embarking on a tour later that year and releasing the album Forth in August 2008, which spawned the hit single " Love Is Noise". Amid revived tensions, the band broke up for the third time in 2008 following their performance at V Festival. [10] History [ edit ] Formation and Verve (1990–1992) [ edit ]The band released the album's first single " This Is Music" in May, and it reached No.35, their first single to reach the Top 40. It was followed by " On Your Own" in June which performed even better, reaching No.28. This single was particularly new for the Verve as it was a soulful ballad. The album reached the UK Top 20 upon its release in July, but Ashcroft broke up the band three months later, just before the release of the third single " History", which reached No.24 in September. Ashcroft later stated: "I knew that I had to do it earlier on, but I just wouldn't face it. Once you're not happy in anything, there's no point living in it, is there? But my addiction to playing and writing and being in this band was so great that I wouldn't do anything about it. It felt awful because it could have been the greatest time of our lives, with "History" doing well, but I still think I can look myself in the mirror in 30 years time and say, 'Yeah man, you did the right thing.' The others had been through the same thing. It was a mixture of sadness and regret, and relief that we would have some time away." [21] Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.

Italian album certifications – The Verve – Urban Hymns" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 8 October 2018. Top 40 Best Selling Albums: 28 July 1956– 14 June 2009" (PDF). Official Charts Company . Retrieved 26 July 2011. a b Scribner, Sara (12 October 1997). "The Verve 'Urban Hymns' Virgin". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 1 March 2016. Courtney, Kevin (15 August 1998). "Bitter sweet rise to glory". The Irish Times . Retrieved 8 December 2022. Disc five, meanwhile, provides as good a primer as any on the group’s earlier work across the course of three shows in Manchester, Brixton and Washington D.C. - there’s a particularly incendiary version of “A New Decade” that tells you a lot of what you need to know about McCabe’s penchant for oceans of reverb pre- Urban Hymns. Discs two and three comprise BBC session material as well as all of the album’s B-sides, which are interesting for their tonal similarity to the rest of the record - there’s no regression to the bombast of A Storm in Heaven or A Northern Soul.

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He’s come a long way since those heady nights in Wigan but Richard Ashcroft hasn’t lost his way. His own music and that of The Verve are well-loved and will continue to be revered wherever people crave new songs for swinging lovers that also have a conscience. Dive in anywhere here. You are unlikely to regret your decision. I knew the history of that room [Olympic Studio] and we were now a part of it,” Ashcroft recalls, speaking of the studio that had previously hosted the likes of The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. “We’d hit a timeless seam. When Wil got those scores down, it was this incredible feeling that we could just hit Rewind and hear them again and again. It was like walking into a bank with millions and millions of pounds’ worth of music.” European Top 100 Albums of 1998" (PDF). Music & Media. 19 December 1998. p.8. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 27 June 2021.

Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 . Retrieved 19 December 2012. New Zealand album certifications – The Verve – Urban Hymns". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 21 June 2020. Mercury winners: where are they now?". Channel 4. 18 July 2007. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009 . Retrieved 10 June 2009. Jones and Tong formed The Shining, who released one album, before disbanding in 2003. Jones went on to work with Irish musician Cathy Davey. Tong became a live replacement for ex-guitarist Graham Coxon in Blur, an additional guitarist for Gorillaz (both Jones and Tong played guitar for Demon Days Live), and a member of The Good, the Bad & the Queen. McCabe worked in different projects like the London-based Neotropic project and played with some established artists, including John Martyn, The Music, The Beta Band and Faultline. Urban Hymns spent 12 weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart, with a total of 124 weeks on the chart. [35] It also became the Verve's first charting album in the United States, where it debuted at number 63 on the Billboard 200, [36] giving the band their first commercial success in the country. [37] Urban Hymns ultimately peaked at number 23 on the chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA on 4 April 1998; [38] it remains the group's best-selling album in the United States, with more than 1.3 million copies sold as of 2009 [update]. [39] Legacy [ edit ]Gwee, Karen (25 June 2019). "Richard Ashcroft's manager reveals how the Rolling Stones returned the rights to the Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' ". NME . Retrieved 14 July 2022. The Verve Resources and Information". The-verve.info. Archived from the original on 19 January 2009. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. p.948. ISBN 8480486392. Richard Ashcroft – Ashcroft will "never say never" to Verve reunion". Hot Press . Retrieved 8 December 2011.