Richard Ashcroft

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

‘A SONG FOR THE LOVERS’ By RICHARD ASHCROFT – Released 20 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past…

3 April 2020

Artist: Richard Ashcroft 
Single: A Song For The Lovers  
B-sides: (Could Be) A Country Thing, City Thing, Blues Thing
and Precious Stone  
Note 1:  The song was originally written by Richard Ashcroft as
a demo track for The Verve‘s triumphant masterwork album
Urban Hymns (1997)
Note 2: The song was inspired by Joy Division‘s
Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Released: 3 April 2000 – 20 years ago
Score: #3 in the UK,  #6 in Canada,
#9 in Italy, #11 in Ireland
Album: Alone With Everybody

Here’s the original clip

RICHARD ASHCROFT: Facebook

FIVE INFLAMMABLE SUMMER BANGERS – Part 11…

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Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…

A new week! Here are five elevating British power pop dandies! Turn it up!…

1. ‘International Blue’ by MANIC STREET PREACHERS
(Album: Resistance Is Futile – 2018)

2. ‘That’s When I Feel It’ by RICHARD ASHCROFT
(Album: Natural Rebel – 2018)

3. ‘Shockwave’ by LIAM GALLAGHER
(Album: Why Me? Why Not. – out 20 September)

4. ‘Hollow Thing’ by LIFE
(Single 2019)

5. ‘Hormone’ by THE MYSTERINES
(EP: Take Control – 2019)

 
All 55 Summer Bangers so far
collected here on Spotify…

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See/hear you next week, music junkies…

Quote Of The Day – Here’s RICHARD ASHCROFT

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Richard Ashcroft is still fighting over the shares of royalties he paid and is still
paying The Rolling Stones for a sample of an orchestral version of their 1965 hit
‘The Last Time‘ he used for The Verve‘s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ back in 1997…

Bitter sweet royalties…

Here’s that orchestral version of The Stones’ ‘The Last Time‘
recorded back then by their manager Andrew Oldham …