They Survived the Jazz Label, the Stones’ Lawyers, and Now Even Themselves: The Verve Reunite

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Cool article on the Verve reunion ...

REUNITED: While it’s certainly been a tightly held hope of the Verve’s devoted fanbase, the U.K. psych-rock band’s reunion hadn’t looked likely for a long while. Just this year, Ashcroft told the BBC that, “You’re more likely to get all four Beatles on stage.” On celebrity-relationship-therapist Dr. Drew Pinsky’s website, he said that there was “No likelihood. Life’s too short.”

But after a near eight-year stretch that saw Richard Ashcroft working as a solo artist and Simon Jones and Simon Tong, among other things, launching a new band called the Shining, the Verve announced in June that they’d hit the road together and get to work on new material.

“We just turned up and without going into too much psychology and ripping ourselves to pieces, we met and within 20 minutes we were playing music,” Ashcroft told the BBC. “So I think we’re just going to let the music do ......

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