Richard Ashcroft (born Richard Paul Ashcroft, on September 11, 1971, in Billinge, Wigan, England) is best known as the front man of The Verve, which he helped form in 1989. After that band's demise in 1999, Ashcroft began his solo career, releasing Alone with Everybody in 2000, Human Conditions in 2002 and Keys to the World in 2006. He performed vocals for the track Lonely Soul on UNKLE's 1998 release Psyence Fiction and his voice can also be heard on the The Chemical Brothers' album Come With Us track The Test. He is good friends with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Coldplay's Chris Martin (whom Ashcroft thanks for 'letting me be myself again'), and occasionally plays as support at Oasis and Coldplay concerts, including the European and second UK legs of Coldplay's 'Twisted Logic Tour'.
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Richard Ashcroft is an English singer-songwriter recognized globally as the frontman of the alternative rock band The Verve.
He is known for performance films and concert documentaries such as Live 8 and Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback.
He produces alternative rock music and features in archival concert recordings and music documentaries.
He is famously associated with the 1990s alternative rock group The Verve, with notable live sets recorded at venues like Haigh Hall.
