Mercury winners: where are they now?". Channel 4. 18 July 2007. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009 . Retrieved 10 June 2009. Assisted further by what Richard Ashcroft enthusiastically refers to as the “loose discipline” of Youth’s production methods, The Verve emerged triumphantly from the painstaking Olympic sessions knowing they had created music that would have a lasting impact. Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 . Retrieved 19 December 2012.

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Sealing the deal, though, were the big-hitting singles; they, ultimately, are the reason why Urban Hymns is the eighteenth best-selling record of all time in the UK. “Bitter Sweet Symphony” neatly encapsulates the album’s sonic ingenuity, sampling as it did an orchestral cover version, unrecognisable from the original, of The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time” and creating one of the most genuinely iconic string parts in modern music history. I knew the history of that room [Olympic Studio] and we were now a part of it,” Ashcroft recalls, speaking of the studio that had previously hosted the likes of The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. “We’d hit a timeless seam. When Wil got those scores down, it was this incredible feeling that we could just hit Rewind and hear them again and again. It was like walking into a bank with millions and millions of pounds’ worth of music.”

Virgin – 7243 8 44913 2 1, Hut Recordings – CD HUT 45, Hut Recordings – CDHUT45, Hut Recordings – CDHUT 45 Melody Maker named Urban Hymns as the number one album of 1997 in its year-end list, [40] and the album ranked at number three on NME 's year-end critics' poll. [41] Q also included it in their own list of the best albums of 1997, [42] and it ranked at number 18 on The Village Voice 's year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. [43] At the 1998 Brit Awards, Urban Hymns won the award for Best British Album and the Verve were awarded Best British Group. [31] The same year, Richard Aschroft won an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year. [31] The album was also shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, which was ultimately awarded to Gomez' Bring It On. [44] By April 1999, however, renewed tensions within the band, particularly between Ashcroft and McCabe, would lead the Verve to split up for a second time, at the height of their success. [31] a b c d Woodward, Will (29 April 1999). "Bittersweet success as the Verve split". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 January 2017. American certifications – Verve, The – Urban Hymns". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 9 February 2010. The Top 200 Artist Albums of 2006" (PDF). Chartwatch: 2006 Chart Booklet. Zobbel.de. p.42 . Retrieved 29 June 2021.Tops de l'Année – Top Albums 1998" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 27 June 2021. Wilkinson, Matt (16 February 2010). "Liam Gallagher snubs Noel as Oasis win Brit Album of 30 Years award". NME . Retrieved 26 October 2019.

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