![]() Despite being the instigator, he was filled with regret of what might have been. Internal feuding would cause The Verve to split in October 1995, the same month Oasis released (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, one of Brit-Pop's most obvious potential superstars exiting stage left at the exact moment the scene was about to blow up, with the album that would become its commercial peak. ![]() The band's 1993 debut, A Storm In Heaven, peaked at number 27 in the UK album chart, and its follow-up, A Northern Soul, released in June '95, only spent three weeks in the top 40, peaking at number 13. Unlike so many of their indie peers, The Verve looked and sounded like rock stars.īut this, however, didn’t immediately translate into album sales. In guitarist Nick McCabe they had their own hybrid of Johnny Marr and Jimmy Page, with frontman Richard Ashcroft an explosive amalgam of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, charisma and cheekbones. Formed in the aftermath of the second summer of love and the mania surrounding The Stone Roses, the Wigan-based band had taken the psychedelic dance rock of the Roses and melded it with the strutting, preening rock 'n' roll of prime Stones and Zeppelin. ![]() This game-changing cultural shift initially rolled out without The Verve.
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