The Verve Band || | 1997 || Themselves || Best Live Act || | rowspan="5" | 1998 || rowspan="2" | "Bitter Sweet Symphony" || British Single of the Year || |- | rowspan="2" | 1997 || Themselves || Best Foreign Group || | rowspan="2"|2008 The Verve The Verve were an English rock band formed in Wigan in 1990 by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound with their debut LP "A Storm in Heaven", by the mid-1990s the band
Michael Ashcroft which originated from Jonathan Randel, an intelligence research specialist for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Randel leaked Ashcroft's name as being in the DEA's files, although it later emerged that Ashcroft was one of five million people they routinely had files on. Randel claimed that the DEA was ignoring Ashcroft in its investigation of money laundering, allegations which "The Times" newspaper later printed on its front page. However, later investigation by various British media sources from information released under the US Freedom of Information Act showed that at no point did the DEA personally investigate Ashcroft. After his second