After yesterday mentioning The Verve’s ‘Bittersweet Symphony’, it had to be today’s video.
I have to admit that I’m a massive Verve fan and still hope, and pray, that one day the band would get back together. Sadly, it has now been eight years since they split, so I doubt that will ever happen.
‘Bittersweet Symphony’ was from the Wigan band’s third and final album ‘Urban Hymns’. The song is actually credited to Rolling Stones duo Keith Richards and Mick Jagger as it was supposedly based on their song ‘The Last Time’. Despite this, Richard Ashcroft wrote a fantastic song, which is surely up there with the best songs of all time.
If you’re in North London, you can visit the very same street featured in the video. The street is called ‘Hoxton Street’ which is suprisingly in ‘Hoxton’.
Oh and by the way, the people Richard Ashcroft bumps into in the video are actually extras, so don’t worry!