Richard Ashcroft legally; however, The Rolling Stones' record company successfully sued and argued that they had used "too much." The Verve was subsequently forced to give ABKCO 100 percent of the royalties from "Bitter Sweet Symphony", and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were given songwriting credits along with Ashcroft. In 2006, Ashcroft was arrested in Wiltshire after going into a youth centre and asking to work with the teenagers present at the club. He refused to leave and employees called the police, resulting in Ashcroft being arrested and fined £80 for disorderly conduct. Ashcroft left the stage after only one song at
Johnny Ashcroft Steven was lost) to Monday, 8 February (when he was found alive and well). During the fourth "Australian Variety Artists MO Awards" in 1979 1979 Mo winners Ashcroft received the "first Male Country Entertainer Mo award"–a performance award voted for by his peers. This was followed by a "National Award For Service To Australian country music". He is to be found in Tamworth's "Australasian Country Music Hands of Fame" and Australian Roll of Renown. Johnny Ashcroft was awarded the "Medal of the Order Of Australia (OAM)" in 1990 and is a "Fellow of the Australian Institute of History and Arts