Richard Ashcroft

New RICHARD ASHCROFT Album – 12 Bittersweet Lockdown Symphonies For Your Candlelight Dinners

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31 October 2021

Like many other artists during lockdown, the question for Richard Ashcroft was also “What I am gonna do with all this free time between four walls?” Most of them started to cover others (that trend never seems to stop), some continued making new music and some were counting their money and/or annoyed their families.

Ashcroft decided to re-dress 12 of his most famous songs (The Verve/solo) and released Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1 this weekend. Acoustic? No, not really. Besides an acoustic guitar,
I hear piano, strings, synths, horns, and layers of harmonies. This album is actually about killing time by turning the selected tunes into bittersweet lockdown symphonies with smooth, elegant, and soothing arrangements.

I’m an Ashcroft fan, but I’ll go back to
the originals for my candlelight dinners.

Stream album via Spotify…

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RICHARD ASHCROFT Shares Stripped ‘SONNET’ Version

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New striking strokes

26 October 2021

RICHARD ASHCROFT, who celebrated his 50th birthday last month offers us
a new album titled ACOUSTIC HYMNS VOL 1 featuring twelve acoustic versions
of classic songs from his career – with The Verve and solo, on 29th October.

Order info here.

As third taster, we get a stripped version of SONNET,
one of the highlights of Urban Hymns, The Verve‘s best
ever album released in 1997.

Press play…

RICHARD ASHCROFT: Facebook

RICHARD ASHCROFT Drops Second Taster From His Upcoming Album – Here’s ‘THIS THING CALLED LIFE’

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New striking strokes

2 October 2021

RICHARD ASHCROFT, who celebrated his 50th birthday last month offers us
a new album titled ACOUSTIC HYMNS VOL 1 featuring twelve acoustic versions
of classic songs from his career – with The Verve and solo, on 29th October. Order
info here

We already heard a stripped-down version of Bittersweet Symphony.

Here’s taster number two. A re-worked version of a song called A Thing Called Life
from his 2010 album with The United Nations of Sound. Unless there’s something
wrong with my ears I hear not much difference from the original.

Check it out…

RICHARD ASHCROFT: Facebook

RICHARD ASHCROFT – New Album ‘ACOUSTIC HYMNS VOL. 1’ Out 29th OCTOBER

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12 September 2021

RICHARD ASHCROFT, who celebrated his 50th birthday yesterday (11th September), announced a new album titled ACOUSTIC HYMNS VOL 1 featuring twelve acoustic versions of classic songs from his career – with The Verve and solo.

First taster: ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ (of course)…

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Tracklist

1. Bittersweet Symphony
2. A Song For The Lovers
3. Sonnet
4. C’mon People (We’re Making It Now)
5. Weeping Willow
6. Lucky Man
7. This Thing Called Life
8. Space & Time
9. Velvet Morning
10. Break The Night With Colour
11. One Day
12. The Drugs Don’t Work

12 September 2021

RICHARD ASHCROFT, who celebrated his 50th birthday yesterday (11th September), announced a new album titled ACOUSTIC HYMNS VOL 1 featuring twelve acoustic versions of classic songs from his career – with The Verve and solo.

First taster: ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ (of course)…

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Tracklist

Bittersweet Symphony RICHARD ASHCROFT Is 50 Today!

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11 September 2021

Richard Paul Ashcroft was born on 11 September 1971 in Wigan, UK. Happy 50 to the former madman maestro of THE VERVE with whom he scored a classic masterpiece LP
in 1997 with Urban Hymns. But the band had more fights than albums, so after a couple of splits and reunions, it was over (well, you never know with these guys).

Ashcroft delivered 5 solo albums so far with Natural Rebel (2018) as his most recent one.

Here come 3 big RA moments to celebrate the loudmouth’s birthday…

– BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY –
(awesome live rendition)

– THIS IS MUSIC –

– THIS IS HOW IT FEELS –

RICHARD ASHCROFT: Career


Don’t forget to have your vaccinations, Richard …

RICHARD ASHCROFT – Debut Solo Longplayer ‘ALONE WITH EVERYBODY’ Came Out 20 Years Ago…

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27 June 2020

Artist: Richard Ashcroft
Album: Alone With Everybody – solo debut
Released: 26 June 2000 – 20 years ago

AllMusic wrote: “He still believes that music has a soul, with or without his former band.
He is certainly a rock star and a believer in love, death, musical spirituality, and individuality. That is what made the Verve a great rock band in the first place, but Ashcroft’s superior drive
to do something real only makes him and his music more endearing. He is looking ahead, not wishing for past adventures. He celebrates life, pure and simple.” Score: 4/5

Keywords: Big mouth, big melodies and bittersweet symphonies, the drugs work, impassioned pop spirit, solid gold rock ‘n’ roll star, get-together anthems
Key tracks: A Song For The Lovers / I Get My Beat / Money To Burn /
C’Mon People (We’re Making It Now / Everybody

Full album…

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RICHARD ASHCROFT: Facebook