For many critics, the story of the Verve’s 1997 Britpop classic ‘Urban Hymns’ begins and ends with album opener ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony.’ The track has quite the story. The band had ...

Still, the track played no small part in making Urban Hymns the towering commercial success that it became, and the same can be said for “The Drugs Don’t Work”, one of Ashcroft’s finest ever lyrical ...

And that simple fact highlights the power that Urban Hymns wielded. Spawning four singles – Bitter Sweet Symphony, The Drugs Don’t Work, Lucky Man and Sonnet – the album managed to blend acoustic ...

Urban Hymns is The Verve's third studio album and was met with widespread acclaim upon its release in September 1997. The record is one of the UK's best-selling of all time , having shifted 3.2 ...

The Verve's Urban Hymns beautifully reflected the mood of 1997 The result of those tumultuous times is The Verve’s near universally acclaimed third album, a collection of songs that remain ...

Album. The Verve Urban Hymns Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition. Virgin / UMC ... and twenty years old this month, ‘Urban Hymns’ still ranks among the UK's all-time top twenty best-selling albums.

Twenty-five years on. the Wigan group’s finest record shows itself to be more than just a cultural artefact of 90s British pop. Great albums have a way of reflecting their times. In 1997, Urban ...