Richard Ashcroft psychedelic music and drugs. They also became a part of the Britpop movement. The band split in 1995, and around this time Ashcroft wrote a collection of songs he intended to release as his first solo album. However, by 1997 he had changed his mind and asked McCabe to return (alongside new member Tong), reforming The Verve and releasing the very successful album "Urban Hymns". Ashcroft was at the forefront of the band's popularity, receiving an Ivor Novello Award for his songwriting and being referred to by the press as "the unmistakable face of the Number One rock band in
Richard Band Joel Goldsmith. He scored Gordon's subsequent films such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and 1995’s "Castle Freak", the later of which featured some inventive writing for a string quartet. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Gordon's Master of Horror episode "Dreams in the Witch House". His score for "Re-Animator" was lauded by the magazine "Music From the Movies", which said, "Band’s music is dark and direct, creating an intense and eerie atmosphere, but always with a humorous touch... Surely, Richard Band is unquestionably one of the most underrated composers in the film business." Since 2000, Band has