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Richard Ashcroft named as support act for Oasis reunion tour

Former Verve frontman says ‘the songwriting talent of Noel and Liam’s pure spirit as a lead singer helped to inspire me to create some of my best work’

As lead singer with the Verve, Ashcroft wrote some of the defining songs of the Britpop era – though with a rather gloomier cast than Oasis’s hits – including Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don’t Work. His relationship with the Gallagher brothers stretches back to 1993, when Oasis supported the Verve on tour prior to the release of their debut single Supersonic. The Verve later supported Oasis, and in the liner notes of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory, Cast No Shadow “is dedicated to the genius of Richard Ashcroft”.

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