richard ashcroft is by far and away the most talented songwriter of his generation his music has depth soul healing sadness his music kept me alive during a 20 year drug addiction thamks richard god bless

Richard Ashcroft has picked me up off the ground often, and made many a darkened year a little brighter.

I've actually made myself feel physically sick listening to certain verve tracks over and over and over again. Richards voice reaches inside and touches you spiritually.

What can I say great voice ,amazing poet and song writer,pure raw talent,legend!

Ashcroft,one of the best singer songwriters in the past 20 years, brilliant. Weeping willow is one of my favourites. 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

All his Récords with The Verve, and his Solo Stuff as well, is puré Gold. He is truly Talented

you're a hell of a gift from above! God Bless you RA -thank you for your soulful music, spirit & voice 🎼🎵🎶🎙🎤🔝🔝🔝❤❤❤

Everyone always shouts out Urban Hymns as a "masterpiece",but their albums before were way more soulful,progressive,more intense and psychedelic. As a Genxer growing up in the states that's all that was shoved down our throats was Urban Hymns. This man has seriously touched so many lives with his beautiful spirit. To not talk shit about the other guys in the band is proof that this man has integrity.

Richard Ashcroft es un diamante que muy pocos conocemos, ❤💎😘 thank you very much king Ashcroft.

I do really love the man. Sometime in 97 after I decided I liked the Verve since they sounded like dreamy, emotional, beautiful, british pop I read an article comparing them to Radiohead. I also like Radiohead but I love the Verve. To me and many others Radiohead is too detached, beautiful but not completely front and center present in your heart. Does this make sense? Even today as I was driving on the freeway going to buy vegetables to plant in my garden, I was blasting Northern Soul, to me their best album - especially tracks 3,4, 7 and 8 - and all the rest. I grew up as a kid in the 80's listening to my brother sing pink floyds the wall or dark side or wish you were here in the other room as I changed into sweatpants to go play outside kickball and handball...and sometimes I just heard him....but I fell in love with Pink Floyd and there is no better band, other than perhaps dead can dance or bathory...or....well I can't go on but Verve is unreal and Richard is also unreal solo - that voice and the lyrics and the emotion are very real and grounding in this day and age of post modern nasty shit. That is my story, thanks for reading.

What a beautiful face this man has.

Should have been one of the biggest bands in the world.Every album they made was a classic

Великолепный человек!🙏💓💎

What a beautiful mouth he has

Richard you are my sweet savior 🎉❤

Love you all the way!!!!

So talented! Amazing! ❤️

It's good that he is self aware and can say he is self obsessed and needs to satisfy himself and needs love to make him less self obsessed. Because everyone is a bit self obsessed and need to feel important. That's why don't take it personally if people are inconsiderate. They are either just self obsessed and inconsiderate or need a bit of love. To feel better about themselves. Ignore them.

This was broadcast like at 1am, remember staying up for it. Sadly Money To Burn was only played Live on that LP tour and ignored still to this day, considering he loves Singles he omitted it since 2001. The feud with The Verve was between Richard, Nick and Simon Jones. Reunited in 2007 for money, didn't last long, just a year.

his music touches

It's just a MASSIVE ArrrrrrrH for Mr Ashcroft..... My soul bleeds for this GREAT ARTIST. Who I must say was #Wideawake never mind #Slideaway. He's still ALIVE pl 💪 the most AMAZIN night of my life was at Newcastle arena......the verve just broke up. My other half said "you'll be lucky if he sings LUCKY man" OMG he was on 🔥✔💯☯️🔝🛐your the man .....TOTAL RESPECT 🙏💪

One of the best 👌 👍

I look like this guy and can relate to him in most things he says ,i think we would be good friends if we ever met

I love you Richard❤🇨🇦

What I'd do to have his voice! Awesome lyrically and vocally

dont know anyone else on this fuckin planet who can make 2 chords into such wonder-my favourite album is 'alone with everybody' its a true masterpiece,this guys the bomb

Urban Hymns was a fucking masterpiece Ash. You wrote the best album of the 20th century in my opinion.

Love this

emozioni dal cuore puro, straight man. good job, Mad Richard

2:22 “we made a lot of records that people haven’t even heard yet” 👀

The Best singer / songwriter from the 90s. When we had the so called Brit Pop era there was some great bands and music but the 2 that were supposedly the best were Oasis and Blur!! But it actually wasn't.... Oasis and Blur used the press to boost their sales and make them more commercial. Noel and Liam are still doing it to this day by slagging each other off on social media and TV interviews. Richard Ashcroft is without any doubt the best songwriter and singer of our generation!! How Noel won a songwriter award the other day is beyond me!! Richard Ashcroft songs piss all over any oasis / gallagher song and his voice is 1000 times stronger. Keep up the good work Richard

Wish I was someone like ashcroft. Such a talented man!

daughter was at winstanley college with richard in the 90s

The VERVE as a band will be 1 of my fav band until the day i die.

Money to burn , great song and album!

"someone in the back skinning up" - Haha superb

I like him most when he's playing solo and acoustic. Ok. Maybe his guitar technique is not top notch, hence most of the critique, but his songs become like mantra's. It's the pure, bare and raw soul that's so beautiful and blows me away every time.

i love Jo Whiley

so talented 😂

Another quality upload

strum that guitar , Richard ❤

LEGEND....NUFF SAID!!

Such a modest and intelligent guy. Jo Whiley is cringeworthy, can't stand her.."can you stop rummaging in your pockets"..I mean wtf...she has one of the finest songwriters sat beside her and she comes away with that shit

💚💚💚🌎🌍🌏❤️❤️❤️🐋🐋🐋

4:37 "Money to burn." Woah slow down Richard! No woman is worth burning your money on unless they pay their way in life too!!!

Pure Partridge this interview. AHa!

I don't know about all of these comments. I just miss the nineties. Don't you? My gosh! Don't ya?

GENIUS 😴

Again with the shades

fuck. not only did the audience get an amazing interview and performance by RPA but they ALSO get a special on Supergrass. Lucky.

alone with everybody is alone with everybody

God

It was a good record, but could've been an even better Verve record.

He may be skinny but I like him

I wonder what his real speaking voice sounds like.

"from what i've heard it's a big manor"

song for the lovers is a classic the chords vocals lyrics a genius which the uk medis rubbish there all public schoolboys who have never been down in life oasis cant touch him weller dont have hid depth coldplay admit his genuis wake up n watch the best songewriter in uk by a mile

I KNOW what VERVE is .....and is about....I've observed it till it's DNA 🧬 .

haha hes fucking quality says it how it is, makes amazing music

King of cool

You only think you want to know.

Cuál es la música del final ?

I thought his solo album was tremendous. I 'found it', if you know what I mean, musically, once... in its entirety... 'it is as he said it is'... Everyone's a twat man... But you've got to respect those with talent who at least make an effort and produce good works. I am ashamed of members of my family, because I hold this man in high regard as a musician of a time to some degree. His solo album was lovely. But he was betrayed by his best friend. In a vile way. I know that man.

Gino Jennings

dylaneske ? in what way? playing an acoustic guitar?

Richard Ashcroft looks like a cross between Finn Wolfhard & Elliot Rodger.

whats the song at the end of it, at the credits?

Personally to me, getting into a discussion with somebody whose screenname is MrSmackdown is a waste of brain cells...

I think the interviewer did a fine job.

girl what are you doing?

12:30 (my romantic side)

whats the name of the songs he plays? thx!

What are these lyrics subtitles 🤣 I can here him him quite clearly ❤️what are these subtitles thou

caraman, some times more really is less

4:20 song name please?

Hi is Richard been on drugs in the past, coz iv heard his been so skinny, but his a great song writer ?

First of all it is an interview... and the questions asked pertained to him hence the title "Jo Whiley Inteviews Richard Ashcroft". Pay attention and keep your comments to your self especially something as opinionated as that. Whining is boring by the way...

If you like Ashcroft you may like my stuff! Swing by and check it out? Cheers, Gavin.

How is ashcroft a "better" writer than dylan? How can you compare? why would you want to? whats the point? - just two songwriters doing their thing on two different continents, from two different generations. When has ashcroft made an allusion to "capturing" dylan. Actually what are you on about?

wtf nob ed

Ashcroft is a perfect example of lead singer syndrome - thought he was bigger than the band. How did those solo albums turn out Richard...? 😂