It's almost 10 years since the release of Urban Hymns, The Verve's gargantuan, 7 million-selling masterpiece. It's an album whose key songs still attract superlatives. Introducing Richard Ashcroft onstage at Live 8 in July 2005, Coldplay's Chris Martin desribed Bittersweet Symphony as "probably the best song ever written."
Coldplay's performance of the track - with Ashcroft on vocals - was a high point of the London Live 8 show, and marked Ashcroft's return to action after two years of silence. You can tell from his impassioned delivery here just how excited he is to be back on stage.
A year later the singer seemed to go off the rails - in June 2006 he was fined for disorderly conduct after gatecrashing a youth centre in Wiltshire. At Live 8, though, he was on fire...
7:52 PM | 02/05/2007
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Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are known for their love of the quiet life, relaxing in their palatial London home with their two beautiful children, enjoying a nice glass of macrobiotic wheatgrass juice and chatting about saving the world.....
**COLDPLAY ARE GENIUS** **RICHARD ASHCROFT IS A GENIUS**
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**COLDPLAY ARE GENIUS** **MAKE TRADE FAIR**
Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are known for their love of the quiet life, relaxing in their palatial London home with their two beautiful children, enjoying a nice glass of macrobiotic wheatgrass juice and chatting about saving the world.....
**COLDPLAY ARE GENIUS** **MAKE TRADE FAIR**
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