The Verve

The Verve

Formed: Wigan, UK, 1990

Members: Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones, Peter Salisbury, Simon Tong

First single: All In The Mind (March 1992)

Album discography: A Storm In Heaven (June 1993); A Northern Soul (July 1995); Urban Hymns (September 1997); Forth (August 2008).

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