Soon after this commercial peak, The Verve broke up in April 1999, citing internal conflicts.

The Verve reformed in 2007 but again broke up by summer 2009.

In August 2009, The Verve broke up for the third time.

Finally, in April 1999, it was announced that The Verve had split up.

During his solo career, Ashcroft expressed regret at having asked McCabe to return for the album instead of releasing it under his own name, saying: " Imagine being the guy that's written an album on his own, bottles it near the end, feels like there's unfinished business, rings Nick McCabe up who adds some guitars, puts it out as The Verve and the same problems arise again.

In August 2009 The Guardian speculated that The Verve have broken up for a third time, with Jones and McCabe no longer speaking to Ashcroft as they felt he was using the reunion as a vehicle to get his solo career on track.

The coda of Teagarden's recording career is the album Think Well of Me, recorded in January 1962 and made up of his singing and trombone playing, accompanied by strings, on compositions by his old musical associate Willard Robison: available on Verve CD 314 557 101-2.

Stitt experimented with Afro-Cuban jazz in the late 1950s, and the results can be heard on his recordings for Roost and Verve, on which he teamed up with Thad Jones and Chick Corea for Latin versions of such standards as " Autumn Leaves.

Blood Pollution ( Chris Cole's former band and a Steel Dragon tribute band ) is also made up of known musical artists, including guitarist Nick Catanese ( Black Label Society ), drummer Blas Elias ( Slaughter ), and bassist Brian Vander Ark ( The Verve Pipe, who also contributed a song to the film's soundtrack ).

Smith's design team is also working on bringing the remaining line up in line with Kinetic Design with the 2007 C-MAX Facelift, 2008 Ford Focus Facelift, and upcoming 2008 / 2009 Ford Fiesta as previewed by the Verve concept.

Cool Britannia also summed up the mood in Britain during the mid-1990s Britpop movement, when there was a resurgence of distinctive British rock and pop music from bands such as Oasis, Blur, Suede, Supergrass, Pulp, The Verve and Elastica, as well as the Spice Girls.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, released in 1956, was the first of eight multi-album Songbook sets Fitzgerald would record for Verve at irregular intervals from 1956 to 1964.

Verve Records was sold to MGM in 1963 for $ 3 million and in 1967 MGM failed to renew Fitzgerald's contract.

Howard Tate's recordings in the late 1960s for Verve Records, and later for Atlantic ( produced by Jerry Ragovoy ) are another notable body of work in the soul genre.

* An animated version in the music video for " Sonnet " by The Verve in 1998.

This single was particularly new for The Verve as it was a soulful ballad.

However, in early 1997, Ashcroft decided to ask McCabe to return, claiming " I got to the point where nothing other than The Verve would do for me ".

At the 1998 Brit Awards in February, The Verve won the awards for Best British Group and Best British Album ( Urban Hymns ).

On 7 July 2010 Ashcroft confirmed that the band " is over for good ", though some weeks later did not rule out another Verve reunion.

* Verve Radio-launched in 2011 as a platform for student thoughts and opinions ; regular shows hosted by student DJs.

With his father's help, he secured a one-record deal with Verve Records, an important jazz label looking for a young and popular personality who could sing or be taught to sing.

Later on, Charlie Fuqua's Ink Spots recorded a couple of albums and a few singles for Verve Records.

** Michael Lang ( producer ) for The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books on Verve

He is also a regular on the digital radio sports show, " TalkSPORT " Other notable friends of his are, Mani of The Stone Roses, Richard Ashcroft of The Verve – for whom he dedicated a song, " Cast No Shadow ", the band members of the Chemical Brothers ,-Sex Pistols members John Lydon and Steve Jones the members of the rock band Kasabian, Andy Nicholson, boxer Ricky Hatton, Paul McCartney, Liverpool F. C footballer Jamie Carragher, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, Ian Brown, John Squire, Lee Mavers, Jack Dee, Craig Cash, Kelly Jones and Johnny Depp ( who played slide guitar on the Oasis song Fade In-Out ).

* In The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve, four titles — " JATP Blues ", " Blues for Norman ", " Jam Blues " and " The Opener " — are credited to Shrdlu, and " The Closer " is credited to Etaoin.

After cutting 2 records for Douglas Records, Havens signed on with Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, and landed a record deal with the Verve Forecast label.

Bands formed in Manchester during the Madchester era included the Chemical Brothers, Verve, Sub Sub ( who would later become Doves ) and Oasis ( Noel Gallagher had been a roadie for Inspiral Carpets ).

** Michael Lang & Phil Schaap ( producers ) for The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959

** David Lau ( art director ) for The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 performed by Billie Holiday

** Buck Clayton, Joel E. Siegel & Phil Schaap ( notes writers ) for The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 performed by Billie Holiday

It has provided inspiration for many modern bands of today, including Coldplay, Radiohead, The Verve, Snow Patrol, Gorillaz, Muse, Kaiser Chiefs, Placebo, Franz Ferdinand, Bullet for My Valentine, The Libertines, Bush, The Kooks, Bloc Party, Stereophonics, Keane, Florence and the Machine, Mumford & Sons, Lostprophets and Arctic Monkeys.

* Fitzgerald recorded three Verve studio albums with Armstrong, two albums of standards ( 1956's Ella and Louis and 1957's Ella and Louis Again ), and a third album featured music from the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess.

" Bitter Sweet Symphony " is a song by English alternative rock band The Verve, the lead track on their third album, Urban Hymns.

Her third studio album, The Sun Shines Again was released November 2, 2010 on Verve Forecast Records.

When the Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records ( who had released their first two albums ) to parent company MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March 1969.

When the Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records ( who had released their first two albums ) to parent company, MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March 1969.

For the first time in their career, The Verve experienced widespread commercial success with their new material.

Critic Mike Gee of iZINE said of this time, " The Verve, as he ( Richard Ashcroft ) promised, had become the greatest band in the world.

The Verve ( at the time known simply as " Verve ") went more towards mainstream rock on their 1997 album Urban Hymns, before singer Richard Ashcroft released a number of solo albums.

Richard Ashcroft was so impressed with Oasis during the time, that he invited them to tour with his band The Verve as an opening act.

PolyGram subsequently trimmed most of Polydor's staff and roster, and shifted it to operate under the umbrella of PolyGram Label Group ( PLG ), a newly constructed ' super label ' specifically designed to oversee the operations of PolyGram's lesser performing imprints ( which included Island Records, London Records, Atlas Records and Verve Records ) at the time.

Later, from 1948 to 1953, Granz leased the recordings to Mercury Records, and later reissued / issued them on Norgran ( founded 1953 ), from 1953 on Clef ( founded 1946 ), and from 1956 on Verve ( founded 1956 ), at the time, his own labels.

The 2008 event did not sell out, for the first time since 2003, while featuring headliners Prince, Roger Waters, and Jack Johnson, along with notable rare appearances from Portishead, a reunited The Verve, M. I. A., Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, a reunited Love and Rockets, and a reunited Swervedriver.

This reputation was acquired early on in 1993 when The Verve, Radiohead and Oasis all played in the Glasgow venue in a two week period and it was in this time when Oasis were discovered and signed by the record label Creation, while playing their song " Supersonic ", which was to become their debut single.

This remained so, even after the 1998 mega-merger with parent Universal Music Group and PolyGram ( which incidentally was Island's parent by that time ) and being put under the fold of the Verve Music Group, continuing to be Verve's imprint for non-jazz releases.

The band gave several false accounts of this at the time, one being that they were named after The Verve b-side " A Man Called Sun ", and that " Manson " was simply a spelling mistake which accidentally went through to production.

In 1987 she signed with Verve Records, who reissued most of her Bet-Car albums on CD for the first time and made them available to wider audiences.

It was during this time in Nederland that Johnston and Austin met bassist Ben Kaufmann and guitarist Adam Aijala at a local club named the Verve.

During this time, The Three Sounds recorded regularly for Blue Note and Verve.

The Verve disbanded in 1999 and later reformed in 2007, this time without Simon.

As Verve ( by then an imprint of Polygram ) prepared to re-release the band's three Verve / MGM albums on vinyl and, for the first time, on CD, they found nineteen previously unreleased tracks: five Cale-era tracks and the fourteen " lost album " tracks, some of them in two-track mixdown format, some of them even on multitracks.

He was a regular recording artist for Capitol Records, Reprise Records, and Verve Records during this time.