The Verve - Lucky Man (Official Music Video)

I absolutely love the Ren cover too! Thank you editor for adding that ❤️

There's great music coming out all the time, you just have to look for it, I'm 56 and have been an avid music collector since my teens, and I'm still buying great albums from more recent bands.

My fave album of theirs is storm in heaven. It's more shoegaze/ambient style.

One of the songs of my teens.

Will never have any time for Richard Ashcroft of The Verve. True story… The first track that blew up and made them stars is all down to their local studio producer in Wigan, where they are from. The band went to his studio and recorded “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and the producer wasn’t happy with it. He said it lacked that special something to become a hit, and that it was nice, but bland. So that producer dove into his record collection and sampled the strings from an instrumental cover version of The Rolling Stones hit from the 1960s called “The Last Time”. All of a sudden, the track had the amazing, catchy hook. Ashcroft loved it and approved it, and it was released and became a massive hit. But of course, and naturally, that is copyrighted material belonging to The Rolling Stones. So The Verve and Ashcroft never made any money from that track — The Stones got it, and rightly so. But they didn’t need to, because without that track and that sample, they would never have blown up and become rock stars. They made shed loads of money from the hit singles and albums that followed, along with their tours. Fast forward 20-odd years and Ashcroft was still moaning that he never received a penny from that hit record because of The Rolling Stones copyright. Anyway, either Mick Jagger or one of the other members of The Stones became a friend of Ashcroft’s through the industry, and The Rolling Stones decided to rescind the copyright infringement claim on the track and give it all to The Verve. What’s it to The Stones? Pocket money when you are the biggest band of all time. And what did Ashcroft do? KEPT ALL THE FUCKING MONEY!!! He tried to re-write history by saying it was all his idea, but we, the people from his town, know different. We know the truth, and he never paid his old music producer a penny for making him a motherfucking ROCK STAR.

I just really like flow and mix of the different instruments sounds in this song almost cinematic. I lean towards the Verb more than Oasis.

That thing you shake is called yo booty 🍑🤣😉

Need to do Bittersweet Symphony 💎💎

Think you need a holiday mate (Is that a tambourine!!!)

I love brick walled loft apartment big city living coffee drinking jogging Steve ❤️😂

Lots of strings used by bands of that time and plenty of tambourines, Liam Gallagher lead singer of Oasis was rarely without one

Saw Richard Ashcroft (lead singer) support Oasis in manchester. He was much better.

Also Richard Ashcroft is a great singer but the guitarist Nick McCabe is one of the greatest of the era, not in playing difficult guitar parts but the feel he has to create great soundscapes and atmospheres. You can hear it a bit on this one creating the mood of the track

They were outside the whole Britpop thing.

There is only 4 albums to explore with The Verve but a lot to explore. They started early 90s before britpop, so album 1 is a weird psychedelic shoegazey sounding thing Their best album to many is the 2nd A Northern Soul which isn't always an easy listen but brilliant imo. They were pushing things to the max making that album in mid 90s taking everything going and doing mad things but to try and make something original, and I think they did. But because of it they split up and came back together for Urban Hymns which the lead singer pretty much wrote and dragged them back together to put it out. But you can see even in the videos the distance between Ashcroft and the rest of the band. This album was full of the string arrangement wall of sound and contained all their biggest hits.This was the Britpop era album but they weren't a Britpop band. Then they broke up again but came back to do album 4 and a tour which wasn't up to much really. Favourite song 'So it Goes' from A Northern Soul'. Great live band. I've put some of their home town gig that was filmed for bb on the list, it's a great gig!

Need to watch a live version

SOO many fantastic groups in the nineties and the verve were right up there with the best of them 👏

My god this whole album ❤️

Richard ashcroft is talented as fcuk way better than oasis