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
John Ashcroft with author Gary Thomas titled "Lessons from a Father to His Son". Ashcroft was given an honorary doctorate before giving the commencement at Toccoa Falls College in 2018. John Ashcroft John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General (2001–2005), in the George W. Bush Administration. He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm. Ashcroft previously served as Attorney General of Missouri (1976–1985), and as the 50th Governor of Missouri (1985–1993), having been elected for two consecutive terms in succession (a historical first for