The band says that they will never get back together. After releasing an album and going back on tour, the band slit again in 2009. Keith Richards was quoted saying that the business was the lawyer's, and that the verve deserved credit.Īfter saying they would never reunite, the band got back together in 2007. Lead vocalist and writer Richard Ashcroft says the song is the best Rolling Stone hit written in decades. Not just the music, but also the lyrics were credited to the Rolling Stones. However, the representative of the Stone's claimed too much of the song was used, and 100 percent royalties were sent to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The deal was to have a 50/50 split of the money. The song uses four bars of the Rolling Stone Classic "The Last Time." The band claims they got permission to use it. So with this big rock ballad, what could go wrong? Well, they were sued. Soon after their international hit, the band broke up, claiming internal conflicts. They won two Brit awards and were nominated for a Grammy.
Their single off the album "Bitter Sweet Symphony" sky-rocketed on the charts, hitting number 12 in the U.S. However the band didn't get commercial success until 8 years later when their album Urban Hymns broke through, becoming one of the best-selling albums in British history. Huge music success doesn't mean a band will become rich and stay together, which is the case for The Verve.The Verve is an alternative rock band that formed in 1989, at the turn of the decade.