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Richard Ashcroft (born September 11, 1971) 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" on U.N.K.L.E.'s 1998 release Psyence
Fiction. 

He is good friends with Oasis (band)|Oasis
frontman Noel Gallagher and Coldplay's Chris
Martin, and occasionally plays as support at Oasis
and Coldplay concerts. The Oasis track "Cast No
Shadow" is about 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. 

Ashcroft is currently working on his third solo
album at State of the Ark studios and Julian
Kershaw has written string arrangements for some
of the songs which have recently been recorded by
London Metropolitan Orchestra. Strings are
featured on 8 songs on the album which also
features electric viola on some tracks - played by
Bruce White. The engineer/producer was Chris West
and the album is aimed for a 2006 spring release.

== Discography ==

=== Studio albums ===



1. Alone With Everybody (2000) #1 UK


2. Human Conditions (2002) #3 UK


=== Singles ===


==== from Alone With Everybody ====


* 2000 "A Song For The Lovers"    #3 UK
* 2000 "Money To Burn"    #17 UK
* 2000 "C'mon People (We're Making It Now)"    #21
UK


==== from Human Conditions ====


* 2002 "Check The Meaning"   #11 UK
* 2003 "Science Of Silence"    #14 UK
* 2003 "Buy It In Bottles" 

==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

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