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Richard Ashcroft

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Image:Live8BitterSweetSymphony.jpg right|300px||thumb|Richard Ashcroft performing at [[Live 8, with Chris Martin of Coldplay in the background]] '''Richard Ashcroft''' (born Richard Paul Ashcroft, on September 11, 1971, in Billinge, Wigan, England) is best known as the front man of The Verve, which he helped form in 1989. After that band's demise in 1999, Ashcroft began his solo career, releasing ''Alone With Everybody'' in 2000 and ''Human Conditions'' in 2002. He performed vocals for the track "Lonely Soul (song) Lonely Soul" on UNKLE's 1998 release ''Psyence Fiction''. He is good friends with Oasis (band) Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher and Coldplay's Chris Martin (whom Ashcroft thanks for 'letting me be myself again'), and occasionally plays as support at Oasis and Coldplay concerts, including the European and second UK legs of Coldplay's 'Twisted Logic Tour'. He recently described himself as 'the best support act you'll ever see'. The Oasis track "Cast No Shadow" is dedicated to him. Chris Martin introduced him as "the best singer in the world" when he performed "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (which Martin called "the best song in the world") with Coldplay at the London Live 8 concert in 2005. On his second album ''Human Conditions'' Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson guest stars with the song "Nature is the law". Ashcroft is married to Kate Radley, ex-Spiritualized keyboard player. They have two sons, Sonny, born in 2000 & Cassius, born in 2004. Ashcroft's third solo album, entitled ''Keys to the World'' and recorded with the co-operation of London Metropolitan Orchestra, was released on 23 January 2006 on the Parlophone label. The first single from the album was "Break The Night With Colour" which was released on 9 January 2006, entering the UK singles chart at Number 3#. Around the time of the album's release, Ashcroft announced his largest UK tour for years for May 2006, culminating in three nights at London's Brixton Academy. Warming up for this tour he will be opening for the second half of Coldplay's tour starting March 14, 2006 in Ottawa, Canada's national capital.

Discography

Studio albums
Image:Alonewitheverybody.jpg|'''''Alone with Everybody'''''
June 26 2000
(Hut Records)
'''#1''' (UK) Image:Humanconditionsashcroft.jpg|'''''Human Conditions'''''
October 2 2002
(Hut Records)
'''#3''' (UK) Image:Keys to the World.jpg|'''''Keys to the World'''''
January 23 2006
(Parlophone)
'''#2''' (UK), #6(GER)

Singles

=from ''Alone With Everybody''
= *"A Song for the Lovers", April 2000, #3 UK *"Money to Burn", June 2000, #17 UK *"C'mon People (We're Making It Now)", September 2000, #21 UK

=from ''Human Conditions''
= *"Check the Meaning", October 2002, #11 UK *"Science of Silence", January 2003, #14 UK *"Buy It In Bottles", April 2003, #26 UK

=from ''Keys to the World''
= *"Break the Night With Colour", January 2006, #3 UK, #3 ITA *"Music Is Power", April 2006

Cameos
*"The Test" ~ The Chemical Brothers, on the album ''Come With Us''. *"Lonely Soul" ~ UNKLE, on the album ''Psyence Fiction''.

External links

- http://www.richardashcroft.com/ Official Richard Ashcroft site
- http://www.ashcroftunofficial.co.uk Fan site, more often updated than the official site
- http://www.andrewkendall.com/pages/photogallery/752/ Richard Ashcroft: Live Pictures
- http://www.music-city.org/Richard-Ashcroft/discography/ Infos about Richard Ashcroft
- Richard Ashcroft Lyrics
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